Disputed histories : imagining New Zealand's pasts
Title:
Disputed histories : imagining New Zealand's pasts
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Tony Ballantyne and Brian Moloughney.
Publication Information:
Dunedin, N.Z. : Otago University Press, 2006.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (283 pages) : illustrations
ISBN:
9780947522261
9780947522254
Abstract:
Reflects on the writing about New Zealand's past. This book tells much about New Zealand's past and how historians have imagined them. It indicates particular concerns with what the country is, and the role of history as a discipine within the nation. Itasks questions and ventures some answers, and surveys the work of historians since the 1980s.
Local Note:
UAS/JPL: EBSCO Academic Subscription.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-273) and index.
Genre:
Contents:
Introduction : angles of vision / Tony Ballantyne and Brian Moloughney -- Ch. 1. Retrievable time : prehistoric colonisation of South Polynesia from the outside in and the inside out / Atholl Anderson -- Ch. 2. Leadership in ancient Polynesia / Michael P.J. Reilly -- Ch. 3. Asia in Murihiku : towards a transnational history of colonial culture / Tony Ballantyne and Brian Moloughney -- Ch. 4. 'In-between' lives : studies from within a colonial society / Judith Binney -- Ch. 5. Marriage and the family on the colonial frontier / David Thomson -- Ch. 6. Is there a good case for New Zealand exceptionalism? / Miles Fairburn -- Ch. 7. Chance residues : photographs and social history / Bronwyn Dalley -- Ch. 8. A German moment : style, language and audience / Barbara I. Brookes -- Ch. 9. The shaping of a field / Erik Olssen.
Technical Details:
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.