Vincent O'Malley

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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 examines why mostly beneficial interactions between these two cultures began to merge and the reasons… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-77558-195-6
EAN: 9781775581956
Produktnummer: 35598968
Verlag: Auckland University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 0 S.
Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor

Vincent O'Malley is a Pakeha New Zealander, the author of Agents of Autonomy: Maori Committees in the Nineteenth Century, and the coauthor of The Beating Heart: A Political and Socio-Economic History of Te Arawa. He is also the a coeditor of The Treaty of Waitangi Companion: Maori and Pakeha from Tasman to Today.