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Title New Zealand and the sea : historical perspectives / edited by Frances Steel
Published Wellington, New Zealand : Bridget Williams Books Ltd, 2018
©2018

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Description 384 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm
Contents Horizons. Finding Tonganui: East Polnesian seafaring and migration to New Zealand / Atholl Anderson -- Native seas and native seaways: The Pacific Ocean and New Zealand / Damon Salesa -- People, nature and the Southern Ocean / Ben Maddison -- Over the ocean foam: Migrant voyages from Britain and Ireland -- Maritime connections and the colonisation of New Zealand / Tony Ballantyne -- Taming the migratory divide / Peter Gilderdale -- Lifeways. Humans and marine ecosystems: Insights from large, remote, late-settled islands / Alison MacDiarmid -- Maori history as martime history: a view from the bluff / Michael J. Stevens -- Crew cultures in the Tasman world / David Haines and Jonathan West -- Waterfronts and homes, 1900-1970 / Grace Millar -- Maritime masculinities / Chris Brickell -- Edges. Living with the beach : representations of the Otago Coast / Douglas Booth -- Cruises and the making of greater New Zealand / Frances Steel -- Popular imagination of the sea: magazines of the 1920s and 1930s / Susann Liebich -- Catching the wave: marine slides and women's amateur photography / Julie Benjamin -- Wave after wave: epilogue / Johnathan Scott
Summary "As a group of islands in the far south-west Pacific Ocean, New Zealand has a history that is steeped in the sea. Its people have encountered the sea in many different ways: along the coast, in port, on ships, beneath the waves, behind a camera, and in the realm of the imagination. While New Zealanders have continually shaped and altered their marine environments, the ocean, too, has shaped their lives.A richly illustrated and multi-disciplinary work encompassing history, marine science, archaeology and visual culture, New Zealand and the Sea explores New Zealand's varied relationship with the sea, challenging the conventional view that history unfolds on land. Leading and emerging scholars highlight the dynamic, ocean-centred history of these islands and their inhabitants, offering fascinating new perspectives on New Zealand's pasts"--Publisher information
Notes Contributors: Atholl Anderson, Tony Ballantyne, Julie Benjamin, Douglas Booth, Chris Brickell, Peter Gilderdale, David Haines, Susann Liebich, Alison MacDiarmid, Ben Maddison, Angela McCarthy, Grace Millar, Damon Salesa, Jonathan Scott, Frances Steel, Michael J. Stevens, Jonathan West
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Seafaring life -- New Zealand -- History
Navigation -- New Zealand -- History
Manners and customs.
Navigation.
Seafaring life.
SUBJECT New Zealand -- Social life and customs
Subject New Zealand.
Genre/Form History.
Author Steel, Frances, editor
LC no. 2018439412
ISBN 9780947518707
0947518703