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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463174303321

Autore

O'Malley Vincent <1967->

Titolo

The meeting place : Māori and Pākehā encounters, 1642-1840 / / Vincent O'Malley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Auckland, New Zealand : , : Auckland University Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-77558-653-7

1-86940-757-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (308 p.)

Disciplina

993.01

Soggetti

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

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 (pages 233-276) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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