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New Zealand's Burning — The Settlers' World in the Mid 1880s

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Contents

Illustrations 6
Maps and Diagrams 8
Tables 9
Preface 10
Acknowledgements 11
PART ONE: FIRE STORM SUMMER
1 Moments of Crisis and Decision 15
2 The Setting of the Pyre 12
3 Hawkes Bay and the Seventy Mile Bush 38
4 Taranaki and the Stratford Fire Storm 48
5 Relief and Reconstruction: Hawke's Bay 67
6 Relief and Reconstruction: Taranaki 75
7 Auckland and Wellington Provinces 84
8 The South Island 89
9 Fire in the City 98
PART TWO: ANATOMY OF A SETTLER SOCIETY 113
10 Patterns 115
11 Bush 130
12 Country 159
13 Town 177
14 Sinews 194
15 Nerves 220
16 Fire 235
17 Leadership 150
18 A Settler Society 278
Appendices 285
Notes and References 291
Bibliography 303
Subject Index 310
Index of Names 316