LEADER 02708nam 2200565 450 001 9910816765403321 005 20230422013943.0 010 $a1-77558-653-7 010 $a1-86940-757-1 035 $a(CKB)2670000000492076 035 $a(EBL)1531114 035 $a(OCoLC)863822451 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1531114 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1411963 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1531114 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10817597 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1411963 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL582194 035 $a(OCoLC)865330218 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000492076 100 $a20130822d2012 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe meeting place $eMa?ori and Pa?keha? encounters, 1642-1840 /$fVincent O'Malley 210 1$aAuckland, New Zealand :$cAuckland University Press,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (308 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-86940-594-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 233-276) and index. 327 $aFirst 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. 330 $aAn 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 606 $aM?ori (New Zealand people)$xHistory 606 $aM?ori (New Zealand people)$xFirst contact with other peoples 607 $aNew Zealand$xRace relations$xHistory 607 $aNew Zealand$xEthnic relations 607 $aNew Zealand$xHistory$yTo 1840 615 0$aM?ori (New Zealand people)$xHistory. 615 0$aM?ori (New Zealand people)$xFirst contact with other peoples. 676 $a993.01 700 $aO'Malley$b Vincent$f1967-$01594656 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816765403321 996 $aThe meeting place$94068527 997 $aUNINA