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

• Autore: O'Malley Vincent <1967->
• Pubblicazione: Auckland, New Zealand : , : Auckland University Press, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (308 p.)
• Disciplina: 993.01
• Soggetto topico: Māori (New Zealand people) - History; Māori (New Zealand people) - First contact with other peoples
• Soggetto geografico: New Zealand Race relations History; New Zealand Ethnic relations; New Zealand History To 1840
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The meeting place
• ISBN: 1-77558-653-7; 1-86940-757-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816765403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II