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Autore |
O'Malley Vincent <1967-> |
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Titolo |
The meeting place : Māori and Pākehā encounters, 1642-1840 / / Vincent O'Malley |
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Auckland, New Zealand : , : Auckland University Press, , 2012 |
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1-77558-653-7 |
1-86940-757-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (308 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Maori (New Zealand people) - History |
Maori (New Zealand people) - First contact with Europeans |
Electronic books. |
New Zealand Race relations History |
New Zealand Ethnic relations |
New Zealand History To 1840 |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-276) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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First encounters -- Strangers landing in strange lands -- On the middle ground -- Trading relationships : the commercial frontier -- Sex on the frontier -- Subverting conversion? : religious encounters -- The political world of Aotearoa before 1840 -- The impact of cultural encounter on the New Zealand frontier -- The end of the middle ground. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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An account focusing on the encounters between the Maori and Pakeha-or European settlers-and the process of mutual discovery from 1642 to around 1840, this New Zealand history book argues that both groups inhabited a middle ground in which neither could dictate the political, economic, or cultural rules of engagement. By looking at economic, religious, political, and sexual encounters, it offers a strikingly different picture to traditional accounts of imperial Pakeha power over a static, resistant Maori society. With fresh insights, this book ex |
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