| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 520 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Unforeseen Directions: After 1945 -- One On an Even Keel? Peace, Prosperity, Consensus -- Two Loosening the Bonds: New Friends, New Enemies -- Three Creating New Zealand: Culture and Character -- Four Leisure and Popular Pastimes: Unsettling Influences -- Five In Ferment: Contested and Protested Values -- Six Schisms: A Society Divided -- Seven Feminism and Gay Rights: Liberation and its Legacy -- Eight Race Relations: Renaissance and Reassessment -- Nine Transformations: Doing the Impossible -- Ten 'Focused by Events': A Second Wave of Reform -- Eleven Shifting Tides: Maori, Pakeha and the Treaty after 1984 -- Twelve A Plaited Rope: Immigration and its Impact -- Conclusion The 'Earthly Paradise' Transformed -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Copyright Page -- Backcover |
| Summary |
From the "golden weather" of postwar economic growth, through the globalization, economic challenges, and protest of the 1960s and 1970s, to the free market revolution and new immigrants of the 1980s and 1990s and beyond, this account, the most complete and comprehensive history of New Zealand since 1945, illustrates the chronological and social history of the country with the engaging stories of real individuals and their experiences. Leading historians Jennifer Carlyon and Diana Morrow discuss in great depth New Zealand's move toward nuclear-free status, its embrace of a small-state, free-ma |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Australia & New Zealand.
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Economic history
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
New Zealand -- History -- 1945-1984. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87006599
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New Zealand -- History -- 1984- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004006669
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New Zealand -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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New Zealand -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
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New Zealand -- History -- 1945-1984
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| Subject |
New Zealand
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Morrow, Diana, author
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| ISBN |
9781775585251 |
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1775585255 |
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9781775580393 |
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1775580393 |
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9781869407834 |
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1869407830 |
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