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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454097403321

Autore

Maning Frederick Edward <1812-1883.>

Titolo

Old New Zealand and other writings [[electronic resource] /] / F.E. Maning ; edited by Alex Calder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Leicester University Press, 2001

ISBN

1-282-30977-3

9786612309779

0-567-52049-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Collana

The literature of travel, exploration and empire

Altri autori (Persone)

CalderAlex

Disciplina

993.02/2

Soggetti

Maori (New Zealand people) - Social life and customs

Electronic books.

New Zealand Description and travel

New Zealand History 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; Note on Texts; History of the War in the North of New Zealand, Against the Chief Heke (1862); Editor's Notes; Old New Zealand;  A Tale of the Good Old Times (1863); Editor's Notes; Appendix: Selected Letters 'The Native Question'; Editor's Notes to the Appendix; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Old New Zealand (1863), F.E. Maning recalls living alongside Maori in ""the good old times before Governors were invented, and law, and justice, and all that."" His account of the early contact period is widely acknowledged to be a masterpiece of some sort, but the extent to which it is fiction, autobiography, ethnography, history, or satire remains a matter for debate. This is the first scholarly edition of Maning's writings. It includes a revealing selection of Maning's unpublished letters, and Alex Calder contributes an introduction and notes that illuminate the works' historical, ethnog