The Golden Echo - A Social History of New Zealand

Although the author called his manuscript a 'meditation' on New Zealand History, we feel that the job has been done with sufficient thouroughness to allow us to use as a descriptive subtitle - A Social History of New Zealand - for this is what it is - in so far as it is possible to write a history about so young a country and nation.

Here is a story of developing attitudes and institutions, of social changes and cultural maturation, of conflicting interest and their resolution, of the growth of towns and the development of education.

It is interesting, it is written with skill and grace, with dashes of wit and wry comment, it is provocative and lively and is up-to-date in its attitudes and its conclusions.

- from the inside cover.

Published by Collins Bros. & Co. Ltd. Auckland 1971.
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