Chapter 1 Pre-European
The short story, to 1800
Colonisation phase, AD 12---1400
The Transitional phase, 1300-1600
The Traditional phase, 1500-1800
Chapter 2 Cook
First Contact
Captain James Cook
Analysis of Cook
Chapter 3 Contact Period
The next ‘contact period’: the resource hunters
Consequences of Contact
Death
Land speculators
Reluctant Empire: towards a Treaty
Chapter 4 Treaty
Why did Britain propose a treaty?
Why did (many) Maori sign the treaty?
The proceedings
Chapter 5 After the Treaty
After the Treaty: sovereignty versus rangatiratanga
Past and present: Waikato Treaty settlement
Past and present: was colonisation really that bad?
Maori and American Indians: a comparison
Chapter 6 Migration and settlement
The rise of Europe: guns, germs and steel
What is ‘British culture’?
Britain in the 18th and early 19th century
The European diaspora
Push factors: socio-economic inequality in 19th century Britain
Push factors: inequality in the political and legal system
The ‘right sort’ of migrant
Obstacles to migration
Pull factors: migration schemes and assisted passage
Pull factors; ‘getting ahead’
Pull factors; kin migration
Pull factors; war
Pull factors: gold
Pull factors: proximity (Australia)
Pull factors: ‘other’
Influences on New Zealand society
1. Demographics
2. Cultural baggage
‘Progress’ and the role of the State (government)
Expanding World chapters were extensively reviewed at transcript stage and provide narrative while also comparing and contrasting the views of different historians.
Associate Professor Peter Adds (Research Interests: Maori heritage, Maori history, Maori culture, Maori archaeology, Treaty of Waitangi, Treaty settlements.)
Reviewed chapters 1-2
Professor Atholl Anderson (Research Interests: oceanic prehistory and ethnohistory, island colonisation, palaeoenvironments, zooarchaeology, chronometry, maritime adaptations.)
Reviewed chapters 1-2
Stanley Conrad (crew member of the voyaging canoe Hokule’a and captain of Te Aurere)
Reviewed chapter 1
Professor Dame Anne Salmond (Research Interests: Maori society, ways of thinking and living, past and present; Pacific society, ways of thinking and lives, past and present; The Enlightenment in Europe and its Pacific legacies; Experimental futures in New Zealand and the Pacific)
Reviewed chapters 2-4
Professor Dame Claudia Orange (Practice Leader Research at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, having previously headed the museum’s History and Pacific Cultures section. She was General Editor of the multi-volume, award-winning Dictionary of New Zealand Biography from 1990 to 2003. She was also Acting Chief Historian from 1997 to 2000 in the History Group of the Department of Internal Affairs, and then 2002–2003 was Senior Historian in Te Ara, the online Encyclopedia of New Zealand in the Ministry for Culture and Heritage)
Reviewed chapters 3-5
Vincent O’Malley is a founding partner of HistoryWorks, a Wellington consultancy specialising in Treaty of Waitangi research, and is the author of a number of books on New Zealand history
Reviewed chapters 4-5
Professor Tom Brooking (Research Interests: New Zealand history, environmental history, social history, history of ideas, New Zealand and World War One, links between New Zealand and Scotland)
Reviewed chapter 6
Associate Professor Caroline Daley (Research Interests: New Zealand social and cultural history, with a special focus on the history of gender relations; Australasian history; history of leisure; history of the body.)
Reviewed chapter 6