The Penguin History Of New Zealand Michael King PB medium Size 2003 Edition 570 pages brilliant overall condition, cover rubbed, slightly marked, bumped shelf wear secondhand book - pre-loved Includes highly comprehensive highly informative insightful narrative the best general history of NZ to be published in a generation Prehistory to 1000AD Settlement to 1850 AD Consolidation to 1950 Unsettlement post 1950 Post history NZ last country in world discovered & settled by humankind. First to introduce full democracy. Between those events in the century following the franchise, the movements & conflicts of human history have played out more intensively & more rapidly in NZ than anywhere else on Earth. A book for new century,reveals all its colour and drama. Here's an inclusive account, one about men & women, Maori & Pakeha. Shows British motives in colonising NZ were essentially humane; that Maori far from being passive victims of 'fatal impact' coped heroically with colonisation & survived by selectively accepting & adapting to Western technology & culture offered. Triumphant fruit of careful research, wide reading & judicious assessment, an unprecedented best-seller from its first publication 2003. King is history. Best general history of New Zealand yet to be published in a generation. , comprehensive , insightful information and significant well researched details, superbly presented here in the Michael King quality & style.
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