The Origins Of An Experimental Society
Auckland University Press
The Origins of an Experimental SocietyNew Zealand, 1769-1860\nAuthor(s): Erik Olssen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Auckland University Press, New Zealand\nImprint: Auckland University Press\nISBN-13: 9781776711130, 978-1776711130\nSynopsis\nIn this major\nwork, one of our leading historians offers a new account of the origins of New\nZealand: how Pakeha settlers - nurtured on Enlightenment thought and\nevangelical humanitarianism - encountered Maori, and how the two peoples together\ndeveloped a distinctively experimental society.\n\nWith James Cook's\narrival in 1769 and the subsequent colonisation, New Zealand became one of the\nfew post-Enlightenment experiments in creating a new nation anywhere in the\nworld. The Europeans who settled these islands brought with them a belief in\nthe power of reason and experience to improve peoples and societies. Encounters\nbetween Maori and these new arrivals profoundly shaped the thoughts and\nbehaviours of both peoples.\n\nOlssen argues\nthat.
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