New Zealand's Empire

Katie Pickles is Professor of History at the University of Canterbury, New ZealandCatharine Coleborne is Professor of History at the University of Waikato, New Zealand

'At the edge of empire, at "home" with the British or somewhere in the Pacific? Pickles and Coleborne take up the puzzle of New Zealand's Empire with freshness and surprise. Both the questions and answers are new, rewarding readers with an insightful and original excursion.'Charlotte Macdonald, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand‘The book rewards its readers with a series of original, varied, and sometimes intriguing essays into particular dimensions…the editors succeed in their stated aim of opening up discussion as to how New Zealand’s own empire might be conceived.’ Vincent O'Malley, H-Empire July 2016‘Scholars who have been following the historiography of British settler colonialism overthe past few decades can testify to the significant contributions made by historians of New Zealand to thisbody of work. New Zealand’s Empire,though, takes that work in a new and intriguing direction, as it asks questionsabout multiple forms of empire in New Zealand’s history.’Cecilia Morgan, University of Toronto, Australian HistoricalStudies, 48, 2017

• Introduction: New Zealand’s Empire – Katie Pickles and Catharine ColebornePart I: ‘Empire at home’1. Te Karere Maori and the defence of Empire, 1855–60 – Kenton Storey2. An imperial icon Indigenised: the Queen Victoria Memorial at Ohinemutu – Mark Stocker3. ‘Two branches of the brown Polynesians’: ethnographic fieldwork, colonial governmentality and the ‘dance of agency’ – Conal McCarthyPart II: Imperial mobility4. Travelling the Tasman world: travel writing and narratives of transit – Anna Johnston5. Law’s mobility: vagrancy and imperial legality in the trans-Tasman colonial world, 1860s–1914 – Catharine Coleborne6. ‘The World’s Fernery’: New Zealand, fern albums, and nineteenth-century fern fever – Molly DugginsPart III: New Zealand’s Pacific Empire7. From Sudan to Samoa: imperial legacies and cultures in New Zealand’s rule over the Mandated Territory of Western Samoa – Patricia O’Brien 8. ‘Fiji is really the Honolulu of the Dominion’: tourism, empire and New Zealand’s Pacific, c.1900–35 – Frances Steel9. Empire in the eyes of the beholder: New Zealand in the Pacific through French eyes – Adrian Muckle 1900–55 10. War surplus? New Zealand and American children of Indigenous women in Samoa, the Cook Islands, and Tokelau – Judith A. BennettPart IV Inside and outside Empire11. Official occasions and vernacular voices: New Zealand’s British Empire and Commonwealth Games, 1950–90 – Michael Dawson12. Australia as New Zealand’s western frontier, 1965–95 – Rosemary Baird and Philippa Mein Smith13. Southern outreach: New Zealand claims Antarctica from the ‘heroic era’ to the twenty-first century – Katie Pickles14. A radical reinterpretation of New Zealand history: apology, remorse and reconciliation – Giselle ByrnesGlossaryIndex