Paradise Reforged : A History of the New Zealanders: from the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

by Belich, James

• ISBN13: 9780824825423
• ISBN10: 082482542X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr

Summary

Paradise Reforged picks up where Making Peoples left off, taking the story of the New Zealanders from the 1880s to the end of the twentieth century. It begins with the search for "Better Britain" and ends by analyzing the modern Maori resurgence, the new Pakeha consciousness, and the implications of a reinterpreted past for New Zealand's future. Along the way the book deals with subjects ranging from sport and sex to childhood and popular culture.

Critics hailed Making Peoples as "brilliant" and "the most ambitious book yet written on this country's past." Paradise Reforged, its successor, adopts a similarly incisive, original sweep across the New Zealand historical landscape in confronting the myths of the past. That some of its themes are uncomfortably close to the present makes the result all the more fascinating.

Table of Contents

Preface	11	(15)
Prologue: Eden Before the Fall	15	(12)
Part 1 Better Britain, 1880s-1920s
Introduction	27	(5)
God's Lone Country	32	(21)
The Long Stagnation	32	(6)
The Exemplary Paradise	38	(8)
The Seventh Child	46	(7)
The Recolonial System	53	(34)
From Progress to Protein	54	(14)
Shifting Gear	68	(8)
Better Britons	76	(11)
Trouble in Paradise	87	(39)
1913	87	(8)
New Zealand in World War One	95	(13)
Dominionism	108	(13)
Part 2 The Great Tightening
Introduction	121	(5)
Social Harmony: Touch of Class	126	(31)
The Decline of a Gentry	127	(6)
The Making of the New Zealand Working Class	133	(13)
The Rise of Farmer Backbone	146	(11)
Moral Harmony: A New Crusade	157	(32)
`Make Them Move': Moral Evangelism and its Allies	159	(11)
Drink, Death and Other Demons	170	(11)
The Mothers' Mutiny and Other Rebellions	181	(8)
Racial Harmony (1): Merging Maori?	189	(27)
The Race That Would Not Die	191	(9)
Young Maori: The New Collaborators?	200	(6)
Whitening Maori	206	(10)
Racial Harmony (2): Unmaking the Difference	216	(29)
Merging Pakeha	217	(6)
White New Zealand?	223	(9)
Islands of Difference	232	(11)
Part 3 Better Britain at Bay, 1920s-1960s
Introduction	243	(2)
Depression and Labour	245	(25)
Rewiring the System	245	(9)
Sugarbag Years?	254	(5)
First Labour	259	(11)
New Zealand in World War Two	270	(27)
The Sharp End	272	(8)
World War Where?	280	(7)
World War Two in New Zealand	287	(10)
Golden Weather?	297	(29)
1951	299	(8)
Long Slow Booms	307	(9)
Letting in Lolita?	316	(9)
Part 4 A People Without Songs?
Introduction	325	(1)
The Expatriate Game	326	(20)
Neanderthal Relatives	327	(4)
Waiting for Godwits	331	(10)
Cultural Overproduction?	341	(5)
Life During History	346	(22)
Pakeha Folkways	347	(9)
The Wild Child and Its Taming	356	(12)
Games Peoples Play	368	(26)
Sporting Society	370	(8)
Representative Rugby	378	(13)
Part 5 Beyond Better Britain, 1960s-2000
Introduction	391	(3)
1984 and All That	394	(1)
Recolonisation's Last Stand	394	(11)
Right Turn	405	(8)
Post-Restructuralism: An Audit	413	(12)
Rainbow's End	425	(1)
Exit Britain, Enter World	426	(7)
Are You My Mother?	433	(10)
Terms of Trade	443	(20)
Part 6 Coming In, Coming Out
Introduction	463	(3)
Resurgent Maori	466	(22)
Revenge of the Cradle	467	(8)
The Treaty Strikes Back	475	(6)
Opting Out	481	(7)
Escape from Nappy Valley	488	(32)
Baby Boom, Baby Bust	489	(7)
New Waves: Work and Feminism	496	(8)
Letting Out Lolita?	504	(7)
Out on the Street	511	(9)
One, Two, Many?	520	(30)
Towns and Arounds	522	(9)
New Migrations	531	(8)
Te Pakeha?	539	(11)
References	550	(42)
Index	592