The New Zealand Journal of History

Vol. 11, N o . 1 A p r i l 1977

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STEVEN ELDRED-GRIGG W h a t e v e r H a p p e n e d to t he G e n t r y ? T h e L a r g e L a n d o w n e r s of A s h b u r t o n C o u n t y , 1890— 1896 3

JEANINE WILLIAMS Pas tora l i s t a n d M a o r i s . F r ede r i ck W e l d a t W h a r e k a k a 28

p. J. GIBBONS S o m e N e w Z e a l a n d Navvies . C o - o p e r a t i v e W o r k e r s , 1891-1912 54

ANTHONY REID S u k a r n o a n d t h e N a t u r e of I n d o n e s i a n Pol i t ica l Society. A Rev iew of t he L i t e r a tu re 76

REVIEW ARTICLES 8 4

Keith Sinclair, Walter Nash (Bruce Brown). Beverley Hooper, ed., With Captain James Cook in the Antarctic and Pacific: The Private Journal of James Burney Second Lieutenant of the Adventure on Cook's Second Voyage 1772-1773 (g, H. McCormick).

REVIEWS Ian Wards, ed.. New Zealand Atlas (R. Gerard Ward), 93; Neville Meaney, The Search for Security in the Pacific 1901-14 (Angus Ross), 95; Paul C l a r k , ' H a u h a u T h e Pai Mar ire Search for Identity (Robin W. Winks), 96; Michael Hoare, The Tactless Philosopher: Johann Reinhold Forster /729-1798 (David Mackay), 98; Aileen Fox, Prehistoric Maori Fortifications in the North Island of New Zealand (Judith Binney), 100; Gerda Elizabeth Bell, Ernest Dieffenbach — Rebel and Humanist (R. M. Ross), 101.

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/I NEW ZEALAND Hlsf&f iV from Auckland Two books to appear later in 1977 cover vital areas of New Zealand history with a detail and authority which will make them standard works.

The Maori Population of New Zealand, 1769-1971, by D. Ian Pool, is a demographic study of fertility, mortality, overall numbers, internal migration, and other aspects of the Maori population, which has had many features of the 'third world' set within a typical 'Western' society. About $8.35.

Fatal Necessity: British Intervention in New Zealand, 1830-1847, by Peter Adams. The arguments of interests pressing for British intervention in New Zealand, and of those opposed to it, have long been known. This study shows how they weighed with British ministers struggling to shape the outcome. About $13.60.

AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY PRESS/ OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

The Economics of European Imperialism A l a n H o d g a r t Foundations of Modern History An analytical guide to economic conceptions of imperialism f r o m 1776 to the present . T h e author highlights the similarities as well as the differences between capitalist and socialist economic expansion.

Publication April Cloth $10.70 approx. Paper $5.40 approx.

British Appeasement in the 1930s W i l l i a m R. R o c k Foundations of Modern History Contr ibutes greatly to our unders tanding of the complex events leading up to the Second World War with a clear evaluation of the roots of the policy.

Publication April Cloth $10.70 approx. Paper $5.40 approx.

All titles are available from our New Zealand agent: Derek Atkinson, Book Reps (N.Z.) Ltd, PO Box 36-105, Auckland 9

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The New Zealand Journal of History

Vol. 11, No. 2 October 1977

CONTENTS

Nicholas Tarling: History and Histrionics 105

Raewyn Dalziel: The Colonial Helpmeet. Women's Role and the Vote in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand 112

Graeme Wynn: Conservation and Society in Late Nineteenth-

Century New Zealand 124

K.R. Howe: The Fate of the 'Savage' in Pacific Historiography 137

Stewart Firth: Governors versus Settlers. The Dispute over Chinese Labour in German Samoa 155

D.S. Keen: History in Secondary Schools, 1976. A Year's Survey 180

Review Article; David Pitt, ed., Social Class in New Zealand (Miles Fairburn). 190

Reviews: Sarah Amelia Courage, Lights and Shadows of Colonial Life: Twenty-six years in Canterbury, New Zealand (Raewyn Dalziel), 196; Alistei Mcintosh et al., New Zealand in World Affairs Vol.1 (Keith Sinclair), 197; R.M. Crawford, 'A Bit of a Rebel': The Life and Work of George Arnold Wood (David Walker), 199; L.K. Gluckman, Tangiwai. Medical History of New Zealand prior to 1860 (Raeburn Lange), 200; F.P. King, ed., Oceania and Beyond: Essays on the Pacific since 1945 (Mary Boyd), 202; David Walker, Dream and Disillusion; A Search for Australian Cultural Identity (Paul F. Bourke), 204.

Research 207

Obituary 212

NEW ZEALAND HISTORY Edward Gibbon Wakefield in New Zealand — his political career

1854-4 by Peter Stuart. 196 pages, paperback, only $2.50. This book has had very good reviews and is acknowledged to be a sound and useful study of a fascinating story: Wakefield's sudden burst into colonial politics, and his equally sudden removal two years later. " . . . makes fascinating reading." - Helen Taft Manning in American Historical Review.

The Webbs in New Zealand, 1898 (Beatrice Webb's diary with entries by Sidney Webb) edited by D.A. Hamer (Department of History, Victoria University): $2.50. The first edition of this published diary appeared in 1959, and must have been the most reviewed book of the decade. It sold out in a few months. Now we have a new edition, published in 1974, edited by Professor Hamer. The new book is beautifully designed, and gives a fresh and interesting look at New Zealand politics at the turn of the century.

The Origins of New Zealand Diplomacy: the Agent General in London 1870-1905 by Raewyn Dalziel, $3.60. The book is about the successive Agents General who represented New Zealand in London — Featherston, Vogel, Dillon Bell, Perceval and, of course, Reeves. It shows how each successive Agent General enlarged the scope and stature of the office and reveals interesting similarities between colonial and present day concerns. " . . . meticulous probing and exhaustive . . . crisply written. ..." — NZ International Review.

We are publishing these books with Victoria University Press in the hope that the series will grow to be a shelf of well-written scholarly paperbacks that will be useful to history teachers and students, and to a wider audience as well.

The Turanga Journals — The Missionary Journals of Jane and William Williams, edited by Frances Porter. This substantial collection of edited journals, letters and diaries is preceded and followed by scholarly but lively commentaries by Mrs Porter. This big book has had good reviews. $12.00

PRICE MILBURN publishers, with VICTORIA UNIVERSITY PRESS