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The Farthest Promised Land — English Villagers, New Zealand Immigrants of the 1870s

Contents

page v

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
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