題名:
A traveller's history of New Zealand and the South Pacific islands
PUBDATE:
2018
GVPL_PUBLICATION_INFO:
Northhampton, MA : Interlink Books, 2018.
物理描述:
xii, 432 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
ISBN（国际标准书号）:
9781566565066
摘要:
A Traveller's History of New Zealand and the South Pacific Islands gives the curious tourist not only a modern-day portrait of New Zealand and the far-flung islands, their political systems, and economic diversity, but also looks at the early settling of this massive area which covers about a fifth of the surface of the earth. When European navigators first sailed into this region, they were astonished at the exotic shared culture and language of the natives, separated in some cases by terrifying stretches of open ocean. The story of the peopling of the South Pacific Islands and New Zealand is one of the world's great sagas. The book covers the whole scope of New Zealand's past and present history and allows the reader to make sense of what they see in a way that no other guidebook can.
一般注釋:
Fully revised and updated - 2018 edition.
內容:
Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: Waterworld -- Brief history of the physical environment -- Early South Pacific cultures -- Special cases: Easter Islanders, Fijians, Maori -- Contact and commerce: the South Pacific Islands to around 1900 -- Christianity and colonization: the South Pacific Islands to around 1900 -- Maori musket wars, Christianity, colonization: New Zealand to 1840 -- Settlements and wars: New Zealand to 1872 -- South Pacific Britannia: New Zealand 1861 to the early 1900s -- Making a nation -- New Zealand from 1920s to 1945 -- Prosperous South Pacific nation: New Zealand 1945 to the 1980s -- Radical changes at home and abroad: New Zealand politics 1980s to early 2000s --New Zealand in the twenty-first century --"The Pacific way": South Pacific Islands since 1901 -- Appendix 1: Largest islands, South Pacific -- Appendix 2: Firewalking in Fiji -- Appendix 3: The Treaty of Waitangi -- Appendix 4: Haka: a living tradition -- Appendix 5: Moko: Maori facial tattoo -- Appendix 6: New Zealand wines -- Appendix 7: The various arts -- Appendix 8: Films -- Appendix 9: Sport -- Governors, governors-general, prime ministers -- Chronology of major events -- Further reading -- Historical gazetteer -- Index.
LANGUAGE:
English
