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    Volume 1
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    May 2012
    November 2011
    ISBN:
    9781139108355
    9781108039536
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139108355
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    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.47kg, 366 Pages
    • Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania
    Subjects:
    Historical Geography, History, Australian History
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    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania
    Subjects:
    Historical Geography, History, Australian History
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    Arthur S. Thomson (1816–60) was a Scottish military surgeon and medical scientist who was posted to New Zealand in the late 1840s. During his eleven years in the country, settlement increased and British sovereignty over the colony was extended. Thomson felt that previous historical accounts of New Zealand all demonstrated a certain political, colonial or religious bias, and decided to write his own comprehensive history of the islands, which was published in 1859. Volume 1 begins with a focus on the geography and climate of New Zealand. Thomson then describes the physical appearance of the New Zealanders, their way of life, their culture, their property laws and the origin of their (now abandoned) cannibalism. Next he describes the history of discovery and settlement by Europeans, who brought 'true civilisation' to the islands. Thomson gives especial credit to the Christian missionaries for having introduced progress and enlightenment.

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