Contents

pp v-vi

List of figures

pp vii-viii

List of contributors

pp ix-xiii

Acknowledgements

pp xiv-xiv

Abbreviations

pp xv-xvi

Introduction: New Zealand’s empire

pp 1-10

Part I - ‘Empire at home’

pp 11-12

1 - <italic>Te Karere Maori</italic> and the defence of empire, 1855–60

pp 13-27

2 - An imperial icon Indigenised: The Queen Victoria Memorial at Ohinemutu

pp 28-50

3 - ‘Two branches of the brown Polynesians’: Ethnographic fieldwork, colonial governmentality, and the ‘dance of agency’

pp 51-68

Part II - Imperial mobility

pp 69-70

4 - Travelling the Tasman world: Travel writing and narratives of transit

pp 71-88

5 - Law’s mobility: Vagrancy and imperial legality in the trans-Tasman colonial world, 1860s–1914

pp 89-101

6 - ‘The world’s fernery’: New Zealand, fern albums, and nineteenth-century fern fever

pp 102-124

Part III - New Zealand’s Pacific empire

pp 125-126

7 - From Sudan to Samoa: Imperial legacies and cultures in New Zealand’s rule over the Mandated Territory of Western Samoa

pp 127-146

8 - ‘Fiji is really the Honolulu of the Dominion’: Tourism, empire, and New Zealand’s Pacific, ca. 1900–35

pp 147-162

9 - Empire in the eyes of the beholder: New Zealand in the Pacific through French eyes

pp 163-178

10 - War surplus? New Zealand and American children of Indigenous women in Samoa, the Cook Islands, and Tokelau

pp 179-194

Part IV - Inside and outside empire

pp 195-196

11 - Official occasions and vernacular voices: New Zealand’s British Empire and Commonwealth Games, 1950–90

pp 197-212

12 - Australia as New Zealand’s western frontier, 1965–95

pp 213-228

13 - Southern outreach: New Zealand claims Antarctica from the ‘heroic era’ to the twenty-first century

pp 229-244

14 - A radical reinterpretation of New Zealand history: Apology, remorse, and reconciliation

pp 245-261

Index

pp 262-268