Fragments from a contested past : remembrance, denial and New Zealand history / Joanna Kidman, Vincent O'Malley, Liana MacDonald, Tom Roa and Keziah Wallis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kidman, Joanna, 1963- author, writer of introduction.

O'Malley, Vincent, 1967- author, writer of introduction.

MacDonald, Liana, author.

Roa, Tom, 1953- author.

Wallis, Keziah, author.

Series:

BWB texts

BWB Texts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Māori (New Zealand people)--History.

New Zealand--History.

New Zealand--Historiography.

Physical Description:

183 pages ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

Wellington, New Zealand : Bridget Williams Books, 2022.

Summary:

"'What a nation or society chooses to remember and forget speaks to its contemporary priorities and sense of identity. Understanding how that process works enables us to better imagine a future with a different, or wider, set of priorities.' History has rarely felt more topical or relevant as, all across the globe, nations have begun to debate who, how and what they choose to remember and forget. In this BWB Text addressing 'difficult histories', a team of five researchers, several from iwi invaded or attacked during the nineteenth-century New Zealand Wars, reflect on these questions of memory and loss locally. Combining first-hand fieldnotes from their journeys to sites of conflict and contestation with innovative archival and oral research exploring the gaps and silences in the ways we engage with the past, this group investigates how these events are remembered - or not - and how this has shaped the modern New Zealand nation."--Publisher description.

Contents:

Introduction / Joanna Kidman and Vincent O'Malley

Captain Cook, Tuia 250 and the making of public memory / Joanna Kidman

Notes from the field: visiting Boulcott's Farm and Battle Hill / Liana MacDonald

Contested memory: Rā Maumahara and Pākehā backlash / Vincent O'Malley and Joanna Kidman

Remembering the past on the road to war: journeying down the Great South Road / Keziah Wallis and Liana MacDonald

Little town, big histories: remembrance and denial on the Waikato frontier

Te Waha Ngū: sitting in silence / Tom Roa and Joanna Kidman

Notes

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781990046483

1990046487

OCLC:

1313445880

Publisher Number:

99991511663