STUDIES OF A SMALL DEMOCRACY: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF WILLIS AIREY

The ten essays in “Studies of a Small Democracy” explore a century of New Zealand’s history & politics. They examine many of the problems of the West that were gaining traction in the 1960s: the treatment of indigenous people; the diffusion of capital & of political ideas; the struggle of workers & farmers for a place under the omni-competent state; the politics of locality & personality giving way to pressure groups, sectionalism & the party of mass opinion.

At the time of publication, New Zealand’s rich history was only outlined from the eighteen-fifties.

These ten studies in depth, each by a former student of a pioneering historian, Willis Airey, are not merely a mine of comparative material & a collection of isolated advances in knowledge.

Together they state what were leading ideas for a fresh history of the country.

Edited by Robert Chapman & Keith Sinclair

Hardcover – 1st Edition 1963 – 288 pages – Black & White Illustrations

Published by Paul’s Book Arcade for the University of Auckland

Contents –

Willis Thomas Goodwin Airey Provinicial & Centralism 1853 – 1858 (D G Herron) The Maori King Movement 1858 – 1885 (M P K Sorrension) New Zealand Promoters & British Investors 1860 – 1895 (H J Hanham) Sir Robert Stout & the Labour Question 1870 – 1893 (D A Hamer) The Significance of ‘the Scrawcrow Ministry 1887 – 1891 (Keith Sinclair) The Fall of Reeves 1893 – 1896 (R T Shannon) The Influence of Political Theories in the Liberal Period 1890 – 1912: Henry George & John Stuart Mill (Frank Rogers) The Country Party Idea in New Zealand Politics 1901 – 1935 (B D Graham) The Unions & the Arbitration System 1900 – 1937 (R C J Stone) The Response to Labour & the Question of Parallelism of Opinion 1928 – 1960 (Robert Chapman) Reference Notes Index

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