New Zealand and the sea : historical perspectives /

As a group of islands in the far southwest Pacific Ocean, New Zealand has a history that is steeped in the sea. Its people have encountered the sea in many different ways, along the coast, in port, on ships, beneath the waves, behind a camera and in the realm of the imagination. While New Zealanders...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Steel, Frances (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Wellington, New Zealand : Bridget Williams Books Ltd, [2018]
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Table of Contents:
  • Horizons. Finding Tonganui: East Polnesian seafaring and migration to New Zealand / Atholl Anderson
  • Native seas and native seaways: The Pacific Ocean and New Zealand / Damon Salesa
  • People, nature and the Southern Ocean / Ben Maddison
  • Over the ocean foam: Migrant voyages from Britain and Ireland
  • Maritime connections and the colonisation of New Zealand / Tony Ballantyne
  • Taming the migratory divide / Peter Gilderdale
  • Lifeways. Humans and marine ecosystems: Insights from large, remote, late-settled islands / Alison MacDiarmid
  • Maori history as martime history: a view from the bluff / Michael J. Stevens
  • Crew cultures in the Tasman world / David Haines and Jonathan West
  • Waterfronts and homes, 1900-1970 / Grace Millar
  • Maritime masculinities / Chris Brickell
  • Edges. Living with the beach : representations of the Otago Coast / Douglas Booth
  • Cruises and the making of greater New Zealand / Frances Steel
  • Popular imagination of the sea: magazines of the 1920s and 1930s / Susann Liebich
  • Catching the wave: marine slides and women's amateur photography / Julie Benjamin
  • Wave after wave: epilogue / Johnathan Scott.