1st Edition

Colonising New Zealand A Reappraisal

By Paul Moon Copyright 2022
286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

Colonising New Zealand offers a radically new vision of the basis and process of Britain’s colonisation of New Zealand. It commences by confronting the problems arising from subjective and ever-evolving moral judgements about colonisation and examines the possibility of understanding colonisation beyond the confines of any preoccupations with moral perspectives. It then investigates the... Read more

0. Introduction  Part One: The Moral Empire  1. The Arc of Empire  2. Seeing the Empire  3. The Good with the Bad  4. Moral Evolution  5. Beyond the Moral Empire  Part Two: An Imperial Supra-System  6. Contemporaneous Perceptions of the Imperial System  7. The Imperial Ecosystem  8. An Imperial Supra-System  Part Three: The Imperial Equilibrium  9. The Imperial Equilibrium  10. Coda

Biography

Paul Moon is Professor of History at Auckland University of Technology. He has a Doctor of Philosophy, a Master of Arts, and a Master of Philosophy, and in 2003, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society at University College, London. He also holds several other international fellowships.