New Zealand - A Short History

Laurie Barber presents a clear and compelling picture of the forces that have shaped a young country?s development into an independent South Pacific nation.
In the late 1980?s New Zealanders faced crucial economic and social problems ? falling personal incomes, contracting markets for its traditional primary products, rapidly growing unemployment, fears about racial disharmony, and uncertainty about the future. To meet these challenges New Zealanders needed to know the background to their predicament. Only from the base of an understanding of the past can the future be securely built.
New Zealand: A Short History aims to help in the unraveling of that past. It tells the story of Aotearoa from earliest settlements to the 1980?s, with special emphasis on Maori attitudes and aspirations and the role of women in our society. It also includes a discussion on New Zealand?s relationship to its trans-Tasman neighbor, Australia.

Published by Century Hutinson 1989. Ex-library with a few library stamps.