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This vivid history of New Zealand, by the late Professor Keith Sinclair of the University of Auckland's history department, has long been regarded as a classic, one of the most authoritative studies of this country's history. This updated version has been brought up-to-date by Raewyn Dalziel, Professor of History at the University of Auckland (and Sinclair's widow). It brings the story up to the end of the 1990s and the election of the Labour Government in the second MMP General Election.… (altro)
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To the authors of New Zealand's histories (the pioneers in whose tracks I have laboriously followed), and especially to W. T. G. Airey, J. C. Beaglehole, J. B. Condliffe and to the memory of W. P. Reeves, this book is respectfully dedicated.
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In the beginning Papa and Rangi, the earth and the sky, mother and father of the gods, lay close together with their children huddled between them in the darkness.
Prologue.
For centuries the Polynesians kept their myriad islands to themselves, but they could not permanently hide such treasures from the curious European.
I. Australian colony.
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Few New Zealanders would welcome the difficulties which might follow a substantial inflow of Asian immigrants, but a good many believe that it is time to relax the present exclusive policy; that, now aeroplanes and Asian nationalism have turned distant colonies and 'backward areas' into neighbouring states, it is time to think of being a good neighbour.
As the New Zealand Herald remarked in 1925, on the election of Gordon Coates to office as Prime Minister: 'All is yet molten, mercurial. There are more departures to make than precedents to follow. To have a history may be an old land's glory and safeguard: to make history is a new land's perilous employment.'
This vivid history of New Zealand, by the late Professor Keith Sinclair of the University of Auckland's history department, has long been regarded as a classic, one of the most authoritative studies of this country's history. This updated version has been brought up-to-date by Raewyn Dalziel, Professor of History at the University of Auckland (and Sinclair's widow). It brings the story up to the end of the 1990s and the election of the Labour Government in the second MMP General Election.
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