Overview
- Adopts demographic methodologies which allow the mapping of broad changes in Maori society
- Questions the applicability of conventional models for analyses of colonial histories of population and development
- Raises more general theoretical questions about what happens when one society’s development processes are superseded by those of some more powerful force
Part of the book series: Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development (DTSD, volume 3)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Seeds of Rangiatea: Population and Development
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The Seeds of Rangiatea: Contact and the March Towards Colonization, 1769–1840
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The Seeds of Rangiatea: Colonization & ‘Swamping’, 1840–Circa 1900
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The Seeds of Rangiatea, 1769–Circa 1900
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About this book
This book details the interactions between the Seeds of Rangiatea, New Zealand’s Maori people of Polynesian origin, and Europe from 1769 to 1900. It provides a case-study of the way Imperial era contact and colonization negatively affected naturally evolving demographic/epidemiologic transitions and imposed economic conditions that thwarted development by precursor peoples, wherever European expansion occurred. In doing so, it questions the applicability of conventional models for analyses of colonial histories of population/health and of development.
The book focuses on, and synthesizes, the most critical parts of the story, the health and population trends, and the economic and social development of Maori. It adopts demographic methodologies, most typically used in developing countries, which allow the mapping of broad changes in Maori society, particularly their survival as a people.
The book raises general theoretical questions about how populations react to the introduction of diseases to which they have no natural immunity. Another more general theoretical issue is what happens when one society’s development processes are superseded by those of some more powerful force, whether an imperial power or a modern-day agency, which has ingrained ideas about objectives and strategies for development. Finally, it explores how health and development interact.
The Maori experience of contact and colonization, lasting from 1769 to circa 1900, narrated here, is an all too familiar story for many other territories and populations, Natives and former colonists. This book provides a case-study with wider ramifications for theory in colonial history, development studies, demography, anthropology and other fields.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Colonization and Development in New Zealand between 1769 and 1900
Book Subtitle: The Seeds of Rangiatea
Authors: Ian Pool
Series Title: Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16904-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-16903-3Published: 12 September 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37214-3Published: 22 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-16904-0Published: 03 September 2015
Series ISSN: 2543-0041
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0068
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 335
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Demography, Population Economics, Cultural Studies