02730nam 2200577 450 991046317430332120200520144314.01-77558-653-71-86940-757-1(CKB)2670000000492076(EBL)1531114(OCoLC)863822451(MiAaPQ)EBC1531114(MiAaPQ)EBC1411963(Au-PeEL)EBL1531114(CaPaEBR)ebr10817597(Au-PeEL)EBL1411963(CaONFJC)MIL582194(OCoLC)865330218(EXLCZ)99267000000049207620130822d2012 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe meeting place Māori and Pākehā encounters, 1642-1840 /Vincent O'MalleyAuckland, New Zealand :Auckland University Press,2012.1 online resource (308 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-86940-594-3 Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-276) and index.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.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 exMaori (New Zealand people)HistoryMaori (New Zealand people)First contact with EuropeansNew ZealandRace relationsHistoryNew ZealandEthnic relationsNew ZealandHistoryTo 1840Electronic books.Maori (New Zealand people)History.Maori (New Zealand people)First contact with Europeans.993.01O'Malley Vincent1967-1027078MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463174303321The meeting place2482553UNINA