The Farthest Promised Land — English Villagers, New Zealand Immigrants of the 1870s
Contents
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Contents
Illustrations and Maps | vii |
Preface | xi |
Part I ENGLISH VILLAGERS, NEW ZEALAND IMMIGRANTS | |
1 Brogdens' Navvies | 2 |
2 The Village World and the Labourers' Revolt | 18 |
3 Agents and Emigrants, 1871–73 | 36 |
4 The Flood Tide of 1874 | 63 |
5 Colony and Hearthland, 1874–80 | 79 |
Part II THE HEARTHLAND | |
6 Oxfordshire and Wychwood Forest | 102 |
7 Lincolnshire and the Northern Wolds | 135 |
8 The Midland Vales | 164 |
9 Kent | 183 |
10 Cornwall and Devon | 211 |
Part III THE PROMISED LAND | |
11 The Transformation of the Immigrant | 238 |
12 New Zealand - Feldon | 260 |
13 New Zealand - Arden | 289 |
Part IV EPILOGUE | |
14 Afterwards | 328 |
15 The Quality of the Immigrants | 345 |
16 The Farthest Promised Land | 354 |
Abbreviations | 359 |
Notes | 359 |
Bibliography | 385 |
Subject Index | 393 |
Index of Places | 402 |
Index of Names | 406 |