Empire City by Martin, John E.

Empire City (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781776920228)

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Empire City by Martin, John E.

Empire City

$45.95
Empire City by Martin, John E.

Empire City

$45.95
Format: Hardcover
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Empire City: Wellington Becomes the Capital of New Zealand takes Wellington from the first encounter between Maori and the New Zealand Company in Te Whanganui-a-Tara in 1839 to its becoming the Empire City by the 1870s. It tells the story that began with a small and fragile New Zealand Company Pakeha settlement relying only on whaling and racked by earthquakes. The story is how Wellington created a durable economic base and became a thriving political and commercial centre and the capital of New Zealand. With a prospering rural hinterland, an energetic mercantile community and an expanding port, and the administrative structure of central government, Wellington in the 1870s could look forward with confidence to its future as Empire City - the central nexus of the country and the local nexus of empire.

Author: John E. Martin
ISBN-10: 1776920228
ISBN-13: 9781776920228
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/07/2023
Pages: 704
Format: Hardcover
By John E. Martin
By John E. Martin
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Dr. John E. Martin has researched and written about New Zealand history since the 1980s, teaching in universities and employed as an historian in the public sector. He was parliamentary historian in the 2000s and 2010s. His books include The Forgotten Worker (1990), People, Politics and Power Stations (1991 and 1998), Holding the Balance (1996), The House: New Zealand's House of Representatives, 1854- 2004 (2004), Parliament's Library (2008), Honouring the Contract (2010), Illuminating Our World (2017) and A Colonist's Gaze (2018). He currently works as a freelance historian.

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