Remaking the Tasman World

REMAKING THE TASMAN WORLD explores New Zealand's most important and extensive relationship - with Australia - on a variety of levels over the past century. The authors present a combined narrative about a 'Tasman world', a working region defined by a history of traffic in ideas, policies, objects and people. From early maps of Australasia to accounts of shared state experiments, of a trans-Tasman business world, sport and Anzac bonds, the authors unearth a common past and reorder it in a history infused with wit and insight. They also look forward, envisioning a fresh start for a trans-Tasman community facing the 21st century.

Philippa Mein Smith is the director of the New Zealand Australia Research Centre at the University of Canterbury. Peter Hempenstall is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Canterbury. Shaun Goldfinch is a senior lecturer in the department of politics at the University of Otago.