New Zealand's Burning — The Settlers' World in the Mid 1880s

Contents

• • [covers]
  • [title page] p. 3
  • Contents p. 5
  • Illustrations p. 6
  • Maps and Diagrams p. 8
  • Tables p. 9
  • Preface p. 10
    • [section] p. 10
    • Acknowledgements p. 11
• • Part One — Fire Storm Summer
    • 1 — Moments of Crisis And Decision p. 15
    • 2 — The Setting of the Pyre p. 22
    • 3 — Hawke's Bay and the Seventy Mile Bush p. 38
    • 4 — Taranaki and the Stratford Fire Storm p. 48
    • 5 — Relief and Reconstruction: Hawke's Bay p. 67
    • 6 — Relief and Reconstruction: Taranaki p. 75
    • 7 — Wellington and Auckland Provinces p. 84
    • 8 — The South Island p. 89
    • 9 — Fire in the City p. 98
  • Part Two — Anatomy of a Settler Society
    • [introduction] p. 113
    • 10 — Patterns p. 115
      • [section] p. 115
      • The day, the week, the month, the year
      • Town, country and bush p. 116
      • The village and the globe p. 118
      • Locality, region, colony p. 121
      • Medieval to modern
      • Democrats, gentry, agrarians, bureaucrats p. 125
      • Classes and interests p. 126
      • Capitalism, socialism, altruism p. 128
    • 11 — Bush
      • [section] p. 130
      • The virgin forest harvest, 1885
      • Case study—Canterbury and Little River p. 137
      • Town, country and bush p. 140
      • Case study—The Stratford fire losses p. 143
      • The bush yeoman p. 150
      • Wives and children p. 154
      • Bush commons p. 156
      • Edward Tregear's tribute p. 158
    • 12 — Country p. 159
      • [section] p. 159
      • Runholders and feldon yeomen
      • Feldon yeoman districts p. 163
      • Runholder districts p. 167
      • Town, country and bush p. 170
    • 13 — Town p. 177
      • [section] p. 177
      • Nelson (1886 population 7,315)
      • Wanganui (1886 population 4,901) p. 180
      • New Plymouth (1886 population, 3,093) p. 183
      • Rivals for the hinterland p. 184
      • Hawera (1886 population 1,026) p. 186
      • The Haweral New Plymouth rift, January 1886 p. 189
      • The Lambton Quay fire, 29 December 1885 p. 191
    • 14 — Sinews
      • [section] p. 194
      • The work of the railways
      • Wellington's Port Nicholson, 1885 p. 199
      • Wellington as ‘head’ port of the ‘Cook Strait Lake’ p. 201
      • Wellington as the main interprovincial node p. 206
      • The West Coast coal trade p. 208
      • The roadless north and the kauri timber trade p. 210
      • Overview of coastal shipping 1885 p. 212
      • Roads, tracks and horses p. 214
      • Case study—the roads and tracks of 1885 Taranaki p. 215
    • 15 — Nerves p. 220
      • [section] p. 220
      • The village and the globe?
      • The ‘Our Own Correspondents’ p. 221
      • The weeklies and their agricultural pages p. 227
      • Travelling correspondents p. 230
      • The New Zealand newspaper press p. 233
    • 16 — Fire p. 235
      • [section] p. 235
      • Customs and traditions of fire use p. 237
      • The local bodies and fire control p. 239
      • The fire insurance companies p. 242
      • The fire brigades p. 243
      • The United Fire Brigades' Association p. 245
      • The Napier, New Plymouth and Hawera brigades p. 246
      • The individual householder p. 248
    • 17 — Leadership
      • [section] p. 250
      • Leadership in the colonial setting
      • Leadership in relief and welfare p. 253
      • Aid and relief in the Seventy Mile Bush 1885–86 p. 255
      • Aid and relief in the Stratford-Midhirst crisis p. 261
      • South Taranaki 1881–86: farming for what? p. 268
    • 18 — The Settler Society p. 278
• • Appendices p. 285
    • 1 The Interprovincial Timber Trade, 1885 p. 285
    • 2 Stratford Fire Losses p. 286
    • 3 Ton Mileage, Minor Railway Sections, Year to 31 March 1886 p. 289
  • Notes & References p. 291
    • Notes p. 291
      • A Abbreviations p. 291
      • B Newspapers
      • C Statistics
    • References p. 292
      • Part One — Fire Storm Summer — 1 Moments of Crisis and Decision p. 292
      • 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 p. 293
      • 6 Relief and Reconstruction—Taranaki
      • 7 Wellington and Auckland Province
      • 8 The South Island
      • 9 Fire in the City p. 294
      • Part Two — Anatomy of a Settler Society
      • 10 Patterns
      • 11 Rush p. 295
      • 12 Country p. 297
      • 13 Town
      • 14 Sinews p. 298
      • 15 Nerves p. 299
      • 16 Fire
      • 17 Leadership p. 300
      • 18 The Settlers' World p. 302
  • Bibliography p. 303
    • I Primary Sources p. 303
      • Unpublished p. 303
      • Published — A Official Publications
      • B Directories, etc
      • C Newspapers
      • D Periodicals p. 304
      • E Books, pamphlets and articles
    • II Secondary Sources p. 305
      • F Books and pamphlets p. 305
      • G Articles p. 307
      • H Theses p. 308
  • Subject Index p. 310
  • Index of Names p. 316

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