Billie Lythberg and Wayne Ngata explore what it means to be whale people in the modern whaling period.
Kate Stevens and Angela Wanhalla explore the role of Māori women in nineteenth-century shore-whaling.
This volume provides new histories of Pacific whaling from untold perspectives.
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Kate Stevens and Angela Wanhalla explore the role of Māori women in nineteenth-century shore-whaling.
Billie Lythberg and Wayne Ngata explore what it means to be whale people in the modern whaling period.
This volume provides new histories of Pacific whaling from untold perspectives.
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The author examines the advent of native forest conservation in New Zealand’s Colony and the role of Thomas Potts in advocating exotic tree-planting as a response to timber shortage.
The author examines the role of plantation forestry through the shift within the New Zealand State Forest Service from an orthodox state forestry model to one favoring large-scale exotic plantations.
This article examines the environmental impacts of Cantonese gold-miners in New Zealand and situates its research in both Chinese environmental history and comparative global environmental history.
The authors use ecological theory to understand the spread, establishment, and dominance of three introduced organisms in New Zealand after episodes of natural and artificial environmental disturbance create opportunities for them to thrive.
