Acknowledge No Frontier: The Creation and Demise of NZ's Provinces 1853–76 - Softcover

Brett, André

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1927322367 ISBN 13: 9781927322369

Publisher: Otago University Press, 2016

Synopsis

While other British settler societies – Australia, Canada, the US and South Africa – have states or provinces, New Zealand is a unitary state. Yet New Zealanders today hold firm provincial identities, dating from the time when the young colony was divided into provinces: 1853 to 1876. Why were the provinces created? How did settlers shape and change their institutions? And why, just over 20 years later, did New Zealand abolish its provincial governments? Acknowledge No Frontier, by André Brett, is a lively and insightful investigation into a crucial and formative part of New Zealand’s history.

About this title

From the Author:

André Brett received his PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2014, where he is currently a researcher and has co-authored (with Stuart Macintyre and Gwilym Croucher) Life After Dawkins: The University of Melbourne in the Unified National System of Higher Education 1988–96 (MUP, 2016). André has written numerous articles on Australian and New Zealand history for scholarly and popular publications in both countries.

About the Author:

André Brett received his PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2014, where he is currently a researcher and has co-authored (with Stuart Macintyre and Gwilym Croucher) Life After Dawkins: The University of Melbourne in the Unified National System of Higher Education 1988?96 (MUP, 2016). André has written numerous articles on Australian and New Zealand history for scholarly and popular publications in both countries, and his research appeared in the TV documentary Australia: The Story of Us.

About this edition

• Publisher: Otago University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1927322367
• ISBN 13: 9781927322369
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 346