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| Title: | Landscape/Community
: Perspectives from New Zealand History |
| Author: | Tony Ballantyne & Judith Bennett (eds) |
| ISBN: | 1877372064 : 9781877372063 |
| Illustrations: | b/w photos & maps |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 150x230mm |
| Pages: | 190 |
| Weight: | .318 Kg. |
| Published: | University of Otago Press - November 2005 |
| List Price: | 15.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Australasian & Pacific history: Social & cultural history: New Zealand |
New Zealanders have a strong affinity with the land and firm connections are drawn between the land and cultural identity in the economy, in politics and in art. The collection of essays explores these complex relationships in different parts of the country and at different times. Environment versus settler society has been a long-standing theme and these essays look at aspects of this. Land ownership -- Maori and Pakeha -- and the families that make communities are the subjects of two further essays. The next two contributors look at rural society, in search of the itinerant worker and harvest festivities. Two final essays deal with more recent subjects: the challenge to a major government hydro-electric project and New Zealanders abroad in the world.
