History, heritage, and colonialism: Historical consciousness, Britishness, and cultural identity in New Zealand, 1870–1940

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History, heritage, and colonialism explores the politics of history-making and interest in preserving the material remnants of the past in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century colonial society, looking at both indigenous pasts and those of European origin. Focusing on New Zealand, but also covering the Australian and Canadian experiences, it explores how different groups and political interests have sought to harness historical narrative in support of competing visions of identity and memory. Considering this within the frames of the local and national as well as of empire, the book offers a valuable critique of the study of colonial identity-making and cultures of colonisation. This book offers important insights for societies negotiating the legacy of a colonial past in a global present, and will be of particular value to all those concerned with museum, heritage, and tourism studies, as well as imperial history. History, heritage, and colonialism Copyright Contents List of figures Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Glossary of Maori terms Introduction ONE Entangled objects: tourism and the exhibition of Maori material culture TWO Throwing stones at Napoleon: Pakeha identity and the preservation and neglect of Maori material culture THREE The art of forgetting: history, myth, and the New Zealand Wars FOUR History from below, or, When did parochialism become a dirty word? FIVE In pursuit of a national past: ‘New Zealand is putting her historical house in order’ SIX New Zealand in context: history and heritage in late nineteenth-century Canada and Australia Conclusion Select bibliography Index