Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-262) and index.
Contents
1. Entangled objects: tourism and the exhibition of Maori material culture -- 2. Throwing stones at Napoleon: Pakeha identity and the preservation and neglect of Maori material culture -- 3. The art of forgetting: history, myth, and the NewZealand Wars -- 4. History from below, or, When did parochialism become a dirty word? -- 5. In pursuit of a national past: 'NewZealand is putting her historical house in order' -- 6. NewZealand in context: history and heritage in late nineteenth-century Canada and Australia.