{"product_id":"empire-city-john-e-martin-9781776920228","title":"Empire City","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John E. Martin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1776920228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781776920228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Victoria University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/07\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 704\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"John E. Martin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48486030082303,"sku":"9781776920228","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_28868dc5-1019-4e7a-a315-038c1ae51506.jpg?v=1778053202","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/empire-city-john-e-martin-9781776920228","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}