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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 |
