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Title Making a new land : environmental histories of New Zealand / edited by Eric Pawson and Tom Brooking
Edition New edition
Published Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (391 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Encounters -- Colonising -- Wild places -- Modernising -- Perspectives
Summary "[This book] presents an interdisciplinary perspective on one of the most rapid and extensive transformations in human history: that which followed Maori and then European colonisation of New Zealand's temperate islands. This is a new edition of Environmental Histories of New Zealand, first published in 2002, brimming with new content and fresh insights into the causes and nature of this transformation, and the new landscapes and places that it produced. Unusually among environmental histories, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of change, focusing on international as well as local contexts ..."--Back cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Landscape changes -- New Zealand -- History
Human ecology -- New Zealand -- History
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- New Zealand -- History
Colonization
Ecology
Human ecology
Landscape changes
Nature -- Effect of human beings on
Taiao.
Whanake taiao.
Whenua.
Whenua raupatu.
Whenua tautohetohe.
SUBJECT New Zealand -- Environmental conditions
New Zealand -- Colonization
Subject New Zealand
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Pawson, Eric, editor.
Brooking, Tom, 1949- editor.
ISBN 9781927322550
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9781927322536
1927322537