New Zealand's Burning — The Settlers' World in the Mid 1880s
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Contents
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- Part One — Fire Storm Summer
- 1 — Moments of Crisis And Decision
- 2 — The Setting of the Pyre
- 3 — Hawke's Bay and the Seventy Mile Bush
- 4 — Taranaki and the Stratford Fire Storm
- 5 — Relief and Reconstruction: Hawke's Bay
- 6 — Relief and Reconstruction: Taranaki
- 7 — Wellington and Auckland Provinces
- 8 — The South Island
- 9 — Fire in the City
- Part Two — Anatomy of a Settler Society
- [introduction]
- 10 — Patterns
- 11 — Bush
- 12 — Country
- 13 — Town
- 14 — Sinews
- [section]
- The work of the railways
- Wellington's Port Nicholson, 1885
- Wellington as ‘head’ port of the ‘Cook Strait Lake’
- Wellington as the main interprovincial node
- The West Coast coal trade
- The roadless north and the kauri timber trade
- Overview of coastal shipping 1885
- Roads, tracks and horses
- Case study—the roads and tracks of 1885 Taranaki
- 15 — Nerves
- 16 — Fire
- 17 — Leadership
- 18 — The Settler Society
- Part One — Fire Storm Summer
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- Appendices
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Notes & References
- Notes
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References
- Part One — Fire Storm Summer — 1 Moments of Crisis and Decision
- 2 The Setting of the Pyre
- 3 Hawke's Bay and the Seventy-Mile Bush
- 4 Taranaki and the Stratford Fire Storm
- 5 Relief and Reconstruction—Hawke's Bay
- 6 Relief and Reconstruction—Taranaki
- 7 Wellington and Auckland Province
- 8 The South Island
- 9 Fire in the City
- Part Two — Anatomy of a Settler Society
- 10 Patterns
- 11 Rush
- 12 Country
- 13 Town
- 14 Sinews
- 15 Nerves
- 16 Fire
- 17 Leadership
- 18 The Settlers' World
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Index of Names
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