Making Peoples

by Belich, James

• ISBN13: 9780824825171
• ISBN10: 0824825179
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr

Summary

This immensely readable book, full of drama and humor as well as scholarship, is a watershed in the writing of New Zealand history. In making many new assertions and challenging many historical myths, it seeks to reinterpret our approach to the past. The first of two planned volumes, Making Peoples begins with the Polynesian settlement and its development into the Maori tribes in the eleventh century. It traces the great encounter between independent Maoridom and expanding Europe from 1642 to 1916, including the foundation of the Pakeha, the neo-Europeans of New Zealand, between the 1830s and the 1880s. It describes the forging of a neo-Polynesia and a neo-Britain and the traumatic interaction between them. The author carefully examines the myths and realities that drove the colonialization process and suggests a new "living" version of one of the most critical and controversial documents in New Zealand's history, the Treaty of Waitangi, frequently descibed as New Zealand's Magna Carta. The construction of peoples, Maori and Pakeha, is a recurring theme: the response of each to the great shift from extractive to sustainable economics; their relationship with their Hawaikis, or ancestors, with each other, and with myth. Essential reading for anyone interested in New Zealand history and in the history of new societies in general.

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(6)
Making Maori
The Prehistory of New Zealand	13	(24)
Hawaiki	13	(6)
Lenses on Prehistory	19	(8)
First Settlement	27	(10)
Hunters and Gardeners	37	(30)
The Thickening Archipelago	38	(6)
The Hunter-Gardener Thesis	44	(6)
Bone, Stone, Style	50	(8)
Story	58	(9)
The Rise of the Tribes	67	(23)
The Sophisticated Economics of the New Zealand Maori	67	(8)
Children of Tu	75	(6)
Regrouping and Rivalry	81	(9)
Life Before History	90	(27)
A Political Geography of Eighteenth-Century Aotearoa	91	(8)
Gendering Prehistory	99	(6)
Gods and Games	105	(12)
Contact and Empire
The European Discovery of New Zealand	117	(23)
Discoveries and Inventions	117	(6)
The Myths of Empire	123	(4)
Agents of Vice and Virtue	127	(13)
The Maori Discovery of Europe	140	(16)
The Legacy of Ruatara	141	(7)
The Iron Patu	148	(8)
Fatal Impact?	156	(23)
The Musket Wars	156	(8)
Guns and Bibles	164	(5)
Harriet and the Alligator	169	(4)
Disease and Depopulation	173	(6)
Empire?	179	(33)
British Intervention	180	(7)
States and Treaties	187	(10)
Converting Consent	197	(7)
Limiting Consent: The Warring Forties	204	(8)
Converting Conversion	212	(17)
God and Money	213	(11)
Land and Law	224	(5)
Conquest?	229	(18)
The Rise of Pan-Tribalism	232	(3)
The Wars of the 1860s	235	(12)
Swamps, Sticks and Carrots	247	(31)
Swamps and Marriage	249	(8)
Sticks and Carrots	257	(21)
Making Pakeha
The Pakeha Prospectus	278	(35)
The Colonising Crusade	279	(8)
The New Zealand of the North	287	(10)
The Pakeha Myths of Settlement	297	(16)
Getting In	313	(25)
Getting Britons	315	(6)
Getting Gentry	321	(7)
Subverting the Prospectus: The Populist Compact	328	(10)
Taken In?	338	(38)
Taking Out: Sheep and Gold	340	(9)
The Progress Industry and Its Allies	349	(11)
Making It: Manufacturing and Farming	360	(7)
Taking Off: The Camp Town Races	367	(9)
Getting On	376	(35)
Getting On Decently	377	(10)
Women's Lots	387	(10)
Getting On Top	397	(14)
Lumped, Split and Bound	411	(40)
Old Lumps and New	412	(12)
Crews or Atoms?	424	(13)
Ties That Bind	437	(9)
Greater Britain	446	(5)
References	451	(33)
Index	484