Colonization and Development in New Zealand between 1769 and 1900 : The Seeds of Rangiatea / by Ian Pool.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pool, D. Ian (David Ian), Author.

Series:

Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development, 2543-0041 ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Demography.

Population.

Cultural studies.

Population Economics.

Cultural Studies.

Māori (New Zealand people).

Māori (New Zealand people)--Health and hygiene.

Māori (New Zealand people)--Population.

New Zealand.

Local Subjects:

Demography.

Population Economics.

Cultural Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2015.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book details the interactions between the Seeds of Rangiatea, New Zealand’s Maori people of Polynesian origin, and Europe from 1769 to 1900. It provides a case-study of the way Imperial era contact and colonization negatively affected naturally evolving demographic/epidemiologic transitions and imposed economic conditions that thwarted development by precursor peoples, wherever European expansion occurred. In doing so, it questions the applicability of conventional models for analyses of colonial histories of population/health and of development. The book focuses on, and synthesizes, the most critical parts of the story, the health and population trends, and the economic and social development of Maori. It adopts demographic methodologies, most typically used in developing countries, which allow the mapping of broad changes in Maori society, particularly their survival as a people. The book raises general theoretical questions about how populations react to the introduction of diseases to which they have no natural immunity. Another more general theoretical issue is what happens when one society’s development processes are superseded by those of some more powerful force, whether an imperial power or a modern-day agency, which has ingrained ideas about objectives and strategies for development. Finally, it explores how health and development interact. The Maori experience of contact and colonization, lasting from 1769 to circa 1900, narrated here, is an all too familiar story for many other territories and populations, Natives and former colonists. This book provides a case-study with wider ramifications for theory in colonial history, development studies, demography, anthropology and other fields.

Contents:

Chapter one: A History of Survival and Resilience

Chapter two: Maori Resource Loss & Development

Chapter three: Colonisation and Maori

Chapter four: Populations and Their Wellbeing

Chapter five: The Wider Historical Context- Chapter six: Contact, Interaction & their Impacts

Chapter seven: Demographic Ephemera, 1769-1840

Chapter eight: Significant Determinants of Population Change: Disease & the 'Musket Wars'

Chapter nine: Maori Demography and the Economy to 1840

Chapter ten: Maori Resource Loss, Pakeha 'Swamping'

Chapter eleven: Māori: The 'Dying Race'; Pakeha: Surgent

Chapter twelve: Factors Affecting Maori Survival, 1840-1901

Chapter thirteen: The Dismembering of the Maori Economy

Chapter fourteen: Health & Wealth, Population & Development

Chapter fifteen: Just Surviving - Not Thriving.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

3-319-16904-1

OCLC:

1204086769