Chiefs of industry : Māori tribal enterprise in early colonial New Zealand / Hazel Petrie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petrie, Hazel, 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Māori (New Zealand people)--Commerce--History--19th century.

Māori (New Zealand people).

Māori (New Zealand people)--Economic conditions--19th century.

Shipping--New Zealand--History--19th century.

Shipping.

Flour industry--New Zealand--History--19th century.

Flour industry.

Business enterprises--New Zealand--History--19th century.

Business enterprises.

New Zealand--Commerce--History--19th century.

New Zealand.

New Zealand--History--1840-1876.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (624 pages)

Place of Publication:

Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Chiefs of Industry is the first book to explore the entrepreneurial activity of Maori in the early colonial period. It focuses on two industries, coastal shipping and flourmilling, where Maori were spectacularly successful in the 1840s and 1850s ? the ?golden age' of Maori enterprise. Historian Hazel Petrie shows how quickly and effectively Maori society adapted to accommodate and develop such capital-intensive investments, harnessing tribal ownership, existing skills and a keen eye for commercial advantage. She also charts the sudden decline of Maori economic success by the 1860s, as ma

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title Page; Table of Contents; ABBREVIATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 : Chiefly Leadership and Pre-Contact Trade; CHAPTER 2 : Early Cross-Cultural exchanges in Context; CHAPTER 3 : The Expansion of Foreign Trade and its Implications; CHAPTER 4 : 'Saving' the Maori; CHAPTER 5 : Influences on Maori Commercial Directions; CHAPTER 6 : The why and How of Sailing Ships and Flourmills; CHAPTER 7 : Management and Operation; CHAPTER 8 : The Social Hierarchy and Ownership Rights in Transition

CHAPTER 9 : Co-operation, Contracts, and Changes in Maori Commercial LawCHAPTER 10 : The Context of Change; CHAPTER 11 : So What Went Wrong?; CHAPTER 12 : Maori Responses; CHAPTER 13 : Looking Back; GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; A, B, C; Index; D, E, F; G, H, I; J, K, L; M, N, O; P, Q, R; S, T, U; V, W, X; Copyright

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781775585268

1775585263

9781869405502

1869405501

9781775580409

1775580407

OCLC:

865330359