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The Making of New Zealanders
Ron Palenski
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Description for The Making of New Zealanders
Paperback. Num Pages: 392 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBN; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJM; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 495.
The Making of New Zealanders is an account of how transplanted Britons and others turned themselves into New Zealanders, a distinct group of people with their own songs and sports, symbols and opinions, political traditions and sense of self. Looking at the onset of home-grown shipping, railway and telegraph networks, at Maori and the kiwi, at rugby teams and votes for women, Ron Palenski identifies the emergence of a national identity in 'God's Own'. From the mid-nineteenth century immigrants to New Zealand - men and women - came to see themselves as New Zealanders, ... Read more
The Making of New Zealanders is an account of how transplanted Britons and others turned themselves into New Zealanders, a distinct group of people with their own songs and sports, symbols and opinions, political traditions and sense of self. Looking at the onset of home-grown shipping, railway and telegraph networks, at Maori and the kiwi, at rugby teams and votes for women, Ron Palenski identifies the emergence of a national identity in 'God's Own'. From the mid-nineteenth century immigrants to New Zealand - men and women - came to see themselves as New Zealanders, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Auckland, New Zealand
ISBN
9781869407261
SKU
V9781869407261
Shipping Time
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99-3
About Ron Palenski
Ron Palenski is the author of numerous books for a general audience, most notably All Blacks: The Authorised Portrait (2007), the Encyclopedia of New Zealand Rugby (1999) and How we saw the war: 1939-45: Through New Zealand Eyes (2009) . The Making of New Zealanders is based on Palenski's acclaimed PhD thesis from the University of Otago.
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