THE NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL
OF HISTORY
Volumes 5-9 1971-1975
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INDEX This index is in two parts. In Part I articles and notes are indexed by author. In Part II reviews are indexed by author of the work reviewed. The reviewer's name is in brackets.
PARTI
ARNOLD, ROLLO. English Rural Unionism and Taranaki Immigration, 1871-76, 6, 1,20-41
BINNEY, JUDITH. Whatever Happened to Poor Mr Yate? An Exercise in Voyeurism, 9,2,111-25
BLACKSTOCK, RAEWYN. Sir Julius Vogel, 1876-1880: From Politics to Business, 5, 2, 150-70
BOYD, MARY. Davidson, James Wightman, 7,2,211-3 BOYD, MARY. Pascoe, John Dobree, 7, 1, 102-3 BROOMFIELD, J.H. C.F. Andrews in New Zealand, 7, 1, 70-5 CAMPBELL, CHRISTOPHER. The 'Working Class' and the Liberal Party in
1890, 9, 1,41-51 CHEONG, W.E. The Beginnings of Credit Finance on the China Coast: The
Canton Financial Crisis of 1812-1815, 5, 1, 70-92 DALTON, B.J. The Military Reputation of Sir George Grey: The Case of
Wereroa, 9 ,2 , 154-70 DAVIDSON, J.W. History, Art or Game? A Comment on "The Purity of
Historical Method', 5, 2, 115-20 ELPHICK, JUDITH. What's Wrong with Emma? The Feminist Debate in
Colonial Auckland, 9,2, 12641 FAIRBURN, MILES. The Rural Myth and the New Urban Frontier. An
Approach to New Zealand Social History, 1870-1940, 9, 1,3-21 FISHER, ROBIN. Henry Williams' Leadership of the CMS Mission to New
Zealand, 9, 2, 142-53 FROST, ALAN. Eighteenth Century Perceptions of 'the Romantic', New
Zealand, and Tahiti, 5,2, 185-90 FRY, HOWARD T. The Commercial Ambitions behind Captain Cook's Last
Voyage, 7, 2, 186-91 HAMER, D.A. Understanding Mr Gladstone, 6 ,2 , 115-28 HAWKE, G.R. W. Pember Reeves: Some New Evidence, 7, 1, 60-9 HOLT, JAMES. Louis Hartz's Fragment Thesis, 7,1,3-11 HOOKER, BRIAN. New Light on the Mapping and Naming of New Zealand, 6,
2,158-67 HOWE, K.R. The Maori Response to Christianity in the Thames-Waikato Area,
1833-1840, 7, 1 ,2846 LAMB, MARGARET. The Rise of National Socialism 1919-1933: A Review of
Some Recent Literature, 9 ,1 , 72-82 MacGIBBON, IAN. The Constitutional Implications of Lord Jellicoe's Influence
on New Zealand Naval Policy, 1919-1930, 6, 1, 57-80
MACKAY, DAVID. Banks, Bligh and Breadfruit, 8,1,61-77 MALONE, E.P. The New Zealand School Journal and the Imperial Ideology, 7,
1,12-27 MANNING, HELEN TAFT. Lord Durham and the New Zealand Company, 6,1,
1-19 MARTIN, GED. 1905-1908: the 'Watershed' of the Empire-Commonwealth? 8,
2,164-71 MOSES, JOHN A. The Solf Regime in Western Samoa: 'Ideal and Reality', 6, 1,
42-56 MUNZ, PETER. The Purity of Historical Method: Some Sceptical Reflections on
the Current Enthusiasm for the History of Non-European Societies, 5, 1, 1-17
NATHAN, JUDITH. An Analysis of an Industrial Boarding School: 1847-1860, A Phase in Maori Education, 7,1,47-59
NEWMAN, RICHARD. New Zealand's Vote for Prohibition in 1911, 9, 1, 52-71 O'CONNOR, P.S. The Awkward Ones - Dealing with Conscience, 1916-1918, 8,
2, 118-36 OKIN, SUSAN MOLLER. John Stuart Mill's Feminism: 'The Subjection of
Women'and the Improvement of Mankind, 7 ,2 , 105-27 OLSSEN, ERIK. The 'Working Class'in New Zealand, 8, 1,44-60 PALMER, MERVYN. William Soltau Davidson: A Pioneer of New Zealand
Estate Management, 7, 2,148-64 PETERS, KATHRYN. New Zealand's Attitudes to the Reform of the League of
Nations: The Background of the Memorandum to the Secretary-General, 16 July 1936, 6, 1,81-98
POCOCK, J.G.A. British History: A Plea for a New Subject, 8, 1,3-21 PUGH, MICHAEL C. The New Zealand Legion, 1932-1935, 5, 1,49-69 REYNOLDS, HENRY. Australian Nationalism: Tasmanian Patriotism, 5, 1,
18-30 ROSS, R.M. Te Tiriti o Waitangi: Texts and Translations, 6, 2, 129-57 ROUSSEAU, PHILIP. Structure and Event in Anthropology and History, 9, 1,
22-40 SINCLAIR, KEITH. The Lee-Sutch Syndrome. New Zealand Labour Party
Policies and Politics, 1930-40, 8,2,95-117 SINCLAIR, KEITH. Why are Race Relations in New Zealand Better than in
South Africa, South Australia or South Dakota? 5,2, 121-7 SNOOK, I.A. Religion in Schools: A Catholic Controversy, 1930-1934, 6, 2,
169-77 SORRENSON, M.P.K. How to Civilize Savages: Some 'Answers' from Nine-
teenth-Century New Zealand, 9,2,97-110 STONE, R.C.J. Sharp, Charles Andrew, 8, 1 .934 STONE, R.C.J. Clio and the Parish Pump. Recent Books on New Zealand Local
History, 7 ,1 , 76-84 STONE, R.C.J. The New Zealand Frozen Meat and Storage Company: A Pioneer
of Refrigeration, 5,2, 171-84
STONE, R.C.J. The Thames Valley and Rotorua Railway Company Limited 1882-9: A Study of the Relationship of Business and Government in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand, 8 ,1 , 2243
TARLING, NICHOLAS. Rizal, Aguinaldo and North Borneo, 9, 2, 179-83 THORNLEY, ANDREW. The Methodist Mission and Fiji's Indians: 1879-1920,
8,2, 137-53 TRAINOR, LUKE. The European States System and the Origin of the First
World War 1903-1915: The Fischer School and the German Role in War Origins, 9, 2, 171-8
TROTTER, ANN. Some Recent Writings about East Asia in the 1930s and the Origins of War in the Pacific, 8, 2,154-63
WALLACE, STUART. Town Versus Gown in Auckland, 1872-1919,1, 2, 165-85 WARD, ALAN. Law and Law-enforcement on the New Zealand Frontier,
1840-1893, 5,2,128-49 WEITZEL, R.L. Pacifists and Anti-Militarists in New Zealand, 1909-1914, 1, 2,
128-47 WILLIAMS, PRISCILLA. New Zealand at the 1930 Imperial Conference, 5, 1,
3148 WOOD, F.L.W. Beaglehole, John Cawte, 5,2,214-6
PART II
BEAGLEHOLE, JOHN CAWTE. The Life of Captain James Cook (David B. Quinn),9,2, 184-8
BLAKELY, BRIAN L. The Colonial Office, 1868-1892 (W.P. Morrell), 7 ,1, 88-9 BOLT, CHRISTINE. Victorian Attitudes to Race (M.P.K. Sorrenson), 7, 1, 98-9 BRAISTED, WILLIAM REYNOLDS. The United States Navy in the Pacific,
1909-1922 (W. David Mclntyre), 9 ,2 , 1924 BROOMFIELD, J.H. Elite Conflict in a Plural Society: Twentieth-Century
Bengal (W.H.McLeod), 6 ,1 , 109-12 BROWN, BRUCE. Asia and the Pacific in the 1970s: The Roles of the United
States, Australia, and New Zealand (W.E. Murphy), 6, 2, 193-5 BUSH, G.W.A. Decently and in Order: The Centennial History of the Auckland
City Council (Judith Elphick), 8 ,1 , 85-6 CATANACH, I.J. Rural Credit in Western India, 1875-1930 (W.H. McLeod), 6,
1 , 1 1 0 - 2
CELL, JOHN W. British Colonial Administration in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Policy-MakingProcess (W.P. Morrell), 5 , 1 , 9 3 4
CONDLIFFE, J.B. Te Rangi Hiroa: The Life of Sir Peter Buck (M.P.K. Sorrenson), 7, 2, 1924
CROCOMBE, R.G. & MARJORIE (eds.) The Works of Ta'unga. Records of a Polynesian Traveller in the South Seas 1833-1896 (G.S. Parsonson), 5, 2, 2004
DAVIDSON, J.W. & SCARR, DERYCK (eds.) Pacific Islands Portraits (W.P. Morrell), 5, 2, 198-200
DEGERANDO, JOSEPH-MARIE, (trans, by F.C.T. Moore) The Observation of Savage Peoples (M.P.K. Sorrenson), 5,1, 104-6
DICKSON, DIANE & DOSSOR, CAROL (comp.) World Catalogue of Theses on the Pacific Islands (Hugh M. Laracy), 5 ,2, 208-9
DRUMMOND, ALISON (ed.) The Auckland Journals of Vicesimus Lush 1850-1863 (R.C.J. Stone), 7, 1, 77-8
DUNMORE, JOHN. French Explorers in the Pacific (W.P. Morrell), 6, 1,108-9 EDDY, J.J. Britain and the Australian Colonies 1818-1831: The Techniques of
Government (W.P. Morrell), 6, 2, 188-9 EWING, J.L. The Development of the New Zealand Primary School Curriculum
1877-1970 (I.A. McLaren), 6 ,2 , 191-2 GARDNER, W.J., BEARDSLEY, E.T. & CARTER, T.E. A History of the
University of Canterbury, 1873-1973 (W.P. Morrell), 8, 1, 87-8 GELBER, H.G. {ed.) Problems of Australian Defence (W.E. Murphy), 6, 2, 193-5 GILES, W.E. A Cruise in a Queensland Labour Vessel to the South Seas (G.S.
Parsonson), 5 ,2, 2004 GILLION, KENNETH L. Ahmedabad. A Study in Indian Urban History (W.H.
McLeod), 6, 1,110-2 GRIMSHAW, PATRICIA. Women's Suffrage in New Zealand (Raewyn Dalziel),
7,2,201-2 HALL, DAVID O.W. New Zealand Adult Education (E.P. Malone), 6, 2, 189-90 HANCOCK, W.K. Discovering Monaro: A Study of Man's Impact on his
• Environment (W.J. Gardner), 7, 2, 194-5 HARNETTY, PETER. Imperialism and Free Trade: Lancashire and India in the
Mid-nineteenth Century (I.J. Catanach), 9 ,1 , 89-90 HASLUCK, PAUL. Australia in the War of 1939-1945: The Government and the
People 1942-1945 (F.L.W. Wood), 7, 2,195-7 HIND, R.J. Henry Labouchere and the Empire 1880-1905 (D.A. Hamer), 7, 1,
89-91 HORSMAN, JOHN. The Coming of the Pakeha to the Auckland Province (R.C.J.
Stone), 7, 1,78 JOHNSTON, W. ROSS. Sovereignty and Protection: A Study of British
Jurisdictional Imperialism in the Late Nineteenth Century (Colin Newbury), 9, 1,86-9
JOYCE, R.B. Sir William MacGregor (W.P. Morrell), 7, 2, 205-7 KHAN, ABDUL MAJED. The Transition in Bengal, 1756-1775. A Study of
Saiyid Muhammad Reza Khan (W.H. McLeod), 6, 1, 109-12 KUMAR, RAVINDER. Western India in the Nineteenth Century (W.H.
McLeod), 6 ,1 , 109-12 LA NAUZE, J.A. The Making of the Australian Constitution (Keith Sinclair), 7,
1,94-5 LANGDON, ROBERT. The Lost Caravel (Hugh Laracy), 9, 2, 188-9 LISSINGTON, M.P. New Zealand and Japan 1900-1941 (Angus Ross), 7, 2,
198-200 LISSINGTON, M.P. New Zealand and the United States 1840-1944 (Angus
Ross) 7, 2, 198-200 LLOYD PRICHARD, M.F. (ed.) The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon
Wakefield (R.J. Schultz), 5, 1, 97-8
LOUIS, WILLIAM ROGER. British Strategy in the Far East 1919-1939 (W. David Mclntyre), 8, 2, 173-5
LOW, D.A. (ed.) Soundings in Modem Asian History (W.H. McLeod), 6, 1, 109-12
McCORMICK, E.H. Alexander Turnbull: his Life, his Circle, his Collections (W.J. McEldowney), 9, 1, 83-5
McINTYRE, W. DAVID & GARDNER, W.J. (eds.) Speeches and Documents on New Zealand History (W.P. Morrell), 6, 1, 101-2
McQUEEN, HUMPHREY. A New Britannia. An argument concerning the social origins of Australian radicalism and nationalism (Keith Sinclair), 5, 1, 94-7
MAHAJANI, USHA. Philippine Nationalism: External Challenge and Filipino Response, 1565-1946 (Nicholas Tarling), 5, 2, 204-6
MARTIN, GED. The Durham Report and British Policy: a Critical Essay (W.P. Morrell), 9, 1,85-6
MATTHEW, H.C.G. The Liberal Imperialists. The ideas and politics of a post-gladstonian elite (D.A. Hamer), 8, 1, 78-9
MORRELL, W.P. The Anglican Church in New Zealand. A History (R.C.J. Stone), 8, 2, 175-7
MORRELL, W.P. British Colonial Policy in the Mid-Victorian Age. South Africa-New Zealand-the West Indies (W. David Mclntyre), 6, 1,99-101
MUNZ, PETER (ed.) The Feel of Truth, Essays in New Zealand and Pacific History presented to F.L. W. Wood and J.C. Beaglehole (David Mclntyre), 5,2,191-3
O'FARRELL, PATRICK. The Catholic Church in Australia. A Short History, 1788-1967 (Hugh M. Laracy), 5, 2,197-8
OLIVER, W.H. & THOMSON, JANE M. Challenge and Response. A Study of the Development of the Gisborne East Coast Region (R.C.J. Stone), 7, 1, 79-82
PHILIPP, JUNE. A Great View of Things: Edward Gibbon Wakefield (Jeanine Williams), 7,1,91-3
PLATTS, UNA. The Lively Capital (R.C.J. Stone), 7, 1, 78-9 ROLLESTON, ROSAMOND. William and Mary Rolleston: an Informal
Biography (W.P. Morrell), 8, 1, 88-90 ROSS, ANGUS (ed.) New Zealand's Record in the Pacific Islands in the
Twentieth Century (J.B. Wright), 5 ,1, 106-8 RUTHERFORD, NOEL. Shirley Baker and the King of Tonga (Sione Latukefu),
6,2, 183-6 SCARR, DERYCK. The Majesty of Colour: A Life of Sir John Thurston (W.P.
Morrell), 9, 1,91-2 SCARR, DERYCK & MAUDE, H.E. Of Islands and Men: Studies in Pacific
History (G.S. Parsonson), 5, 2, 200-4 SCHREUDER, D.M. Gladstone and Kruger (F.B. Smith), 5,1,98-9 SCOTT, DICK. Ask That Mountain. The Story ofParihaka (Judith Bassett), 9, 2,
189-92 SHARP, ANDREW (ed.) The Journal of Jacob Roggeveen (W.P. Morrell), 6, 1,
108-9
SORRENSON, M.P.K. Land Reform in the Kikuyu Country. A Study in Government Policy (D.A. Low), 5,1,99-104
SORRENSON, M.P.K. Origins of European Settlement in Kenya (D.A. Low), 5, 1,99-104
SPENDER, SIR PERCY. Exercises in Diplomacy. The Anzus Treaty and the Colombo Plan (Bruce Brown), 5, 2, 194-7
STENSON, M.R. Industrial Conflict in Malaya. Prelude to the Communist Revolt of 1948 (Ruth T. McVey), 6 ,1 , 102-4
STEVENS, JOAN (ed.) The London Journal of Edward Jemingham Wakefield 1845-46 (Peter Stuart), 7, 2, 2034
STONE, R.C.J. Makers of Fortune: A Colonial Business Community and its Fall (G.R. Hawke), 8, 1,83-5
STUART, PETER. Edward Gibbon Wakefield in New Zealand: His Political Career 1853-1854 (Jeanine Williams), 7, 1,91-3
SUTCH, W.B. Women with a Cause (Raewyn Dalziel), 9,1,90-1 SUTHERLAND, GILLIAN (ed.) Studies in the Growth of Nineteenth-century
Government (D.A. Hamer), 8, 2,172-3 SWINFEN, D.B. Imperial Control of Colonial Legislation 1813-1865 (Noel
McLachlan), 7, 1,85-8 TARLING, NICHOLAS. Britain, the Brookes and Brunei (Robert Pringle), 6, 2,
' 187-8 TEMPERLEY, HOWARD. British Antislavery 1833-1870 (W.P. Morrell), 7, 2,
204-5 TURNBULL, C.M. The Straits Settlements 1826-67. Indian Presidency to Crown
Colony (Nicholas Tarling), 7, 1,95-7 VENTURI, FRANCO. Utopia and Reform in the Enlightenment (Susan Moller),
6 ,2, 179-82 WARD, ALAN. A Show of Justice: Racial 'Amalgamation' in Nineteenth
Century New Zealand (Judith Binney), 9 ,2, 194-6 WATERSON, D.B. A Biographical Register of the Queensland Parliament
1860-1929 (R.B. Joyce), 8, 1, 82-3 WATERSON, D.B. Squatter, Selector and Storekeeper. A History of the Darling
Downs, 1859-93 (R.B. Joyce), 8, 1, 82-3 WHITCOMBE, ELIZABETH. Agrarian Conditions in Northern India: The
United Provinces under British Rule, 1860-1900 (I.J. Catanach), 8, 1, 80-2 WILLIAMS, JOHN A. Politics of the New Zealand Maori: Protest and
Cooperation, 1891-1909 (G.V. Butterworth), 6 ,1, 105-8 WRIGHT-ST. CLAIR, REX E. Thoroughly a Man of the World: A Biography of
Sir David Munro (W.P. Morrell), 8 ,1, 88-90 YOUNG, L.K. British Policy in China, 1895-1902 (S.A.M. Adshead), 5, 2, 207-8
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Vol. 9, No. 1 April 1975
C O N T E N T S
MILES FAIRBURN The Rural Myth and the New Urban Frontier: An Approach to New Zealand Social History, 1870-1940 3
PHILIP ROUSSEAU Structure and Event in Anthropology and History 22
CHRISTOPHER CAMPBELL The 'Working Class' and the Liberal Party in 1890 41
RICHARD NEWMAN New Zealand's Vote for Prohibition in 1911 52
MARGARET LAMB The Rise of National Socialism 1919-1933: A Review of Some Recent Literature 72
REVIEWS
E. H. McCormick, Alexander Turnbull: his Life, his Circle, his Collections (W. J. McEldowney), 83; Ged Martin, The Durham Report and British Policy; a Critical Essay (W.P. Morrell), 85; W. Ross Johnston, Sovereignty and Protection: A Study of British Jurisdictional Imperialism in the Late Nineteenth Century (Colin Newbury), 86; Peter Harnetty, Imperialism and Free Trade: Lancashire and India in the Mid-nineteenth Century (I. J. Catanach), 89; W. B. Sutch, Women with a Cause (Raewyn Dalziel), 90; Deryck Scarr, The Majesty of Colour: A Life of Sir John Thurston. Vol. 1. I, the very Bayonet (W. P. Morrell), 91.
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