New Zealand between the wars /
"If World War One was the crucible that forged an independent New Zealand identity, then the two decades that followed laid the foundation for a new nation as the country shed the last vestiges of colonial society in exchange for the trappings of a modern dominion. This collection of essay trav...
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Auckland, New Zealand :
Massey University Press,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- A nation on the cusp / Rachael Bell
- The provision of opportunities: politics and the state / David Littlewood
- A duty of the country: soldier settlement, 1915-1941
- Contradiction and contestation: public education in the interwar period / Roger Openshaw
- The old Bolshevik: Alex Galbraith, the Communist Party and the New Zealand revolution / Kerry Taylor
- Once were muttonbirders: Ngāti Kuia's fight to retain its Tītī harvesting rights / Peter Meihana
- Modernising rivers: River 'improvement' efforts and hydroelectric power development / Catherine Knight
- The nation's stock, the nation's flock: Disease prevention and the interwar poultry farm / Janine Cook
- Keeping it in the country: Modernity, urban drift and adult education in rural New Zealand / Rachael Bell
- From wild child to future citizen: Childrenand youth in interwar New Zealand / Helen Dollery
- The modern girl: Dale Austen, Miss New Zealand, in Hollywood / Natalie Smith
- Conscience of the nation: The churches as political actors / Christopher J. van der Krogt
- An age of expansion: The widening sporting world in Palmerston North and New Zealand / Geoff Watson.