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