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Old New Zealand and Other Writings
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In Old New Zealand (1863), F.E. Maning recalls living alongside Maori in "the good old times before Governors were invented, and law, and justice, and all that." His account of the early contact period is widely acknowledged to be a masterpiece of some sort, but the extent to which it is fiction, autobiography, ethnography, history, or satire remains a matter for debate. This is the first scholarly edition of Maning's writings. It includes a revealing selection of Maning's unpublished letters, and Alex Calder contributes an introduction and notes that illuminate the works' historical, ethnographic, and literary contexts, showing how settler colonialism is an incomplete and contested process, the problems of which are enacted in Maning's writings, and repeated in the history of their reception.
Table of Contents
Chronology
1. Introduction
2. Note on Texts
3. History of the War in the North of New Zealand Against the Chief Heke
(1862)
4. Editor's Notes
5. Old New Zealand ; A Tale of the Good Old Times (1863)
6. Editor's Notes
Appendix: Selected Letters
Editor's Notes
Product details
| Published | 01 Jul 2001 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9780718501969 |
| Imprint | Leicester University Press |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Series | Literature of Travel, Exploration and Empire |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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