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391 pages
illustrations, maps.
Contents includes: Encounters -- Colonising -- Wild places -- Modernising -- Perspectives.
Summary: An interdisciplinary perspective on one of the most rapid and extensive transformations in human history: that which followed Maori and then European colonization of New Zealand's temperate islands. ... Unusual among environmental histories, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of change, focusing on international as well as local contexts. (Publisher)