It is a work of shcolarship accessible to the 'ordinary' reader and likely to endure and inspire for generations.New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. "A work as humane, unpretentious and enlightened as its creator, thoroughly contemporary but deep in outlook. Here's a book for reading and pondering." - New Zealand Listener. He writes endearingly (how he loves his country) but with a cool eye for its mistakes and stumbles. "King's history is eminently - and pre-eminently - readable. For our generation with our particular preoccupations, anxieties and prejudices, this is. "The summation of 30 years of meticulous research filtered by a mature and benign scholarship. "By far the best general history of New Zealand to be published in a generation." - New Zealand Herald. This book, a triumphant fruit of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, was an unprecedented best-seller from the time of its first publication in 2003.
It shows that British motives in colonising New Zealand were essentially humane and that Maori, far from being passive victims of a 'fatal impact', coped heroically with colonisation and survived by selectively accepting and adapting what Western technology and culture had to offer. The narrative that emerges is an inclusive one about men and women, Maori and Pakeha. 'The Penguin History of New Zealand', a new book for a new century, tells that story in all its colour and drama. Between those events, and in the century that followed the franchise, the movements and the conflicts of human history have been played out more intensively and more rapidly in New Zealand than anywhere else on Earth. It was also the first to introduce full democracy. New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. The Penguin History of New Zealand Michael King | New Zealand Books
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