New Zealand History

A Concise New Zealand History

Chapters

 * Preface
 * Introduction

PART 1: EARLY HISTORY:
 * Polynesian Settlement of New Zealand (1300)
 * Maori Culture and Lifestyle up to 1840 (1300-1840)



PART 2: EUROPEAN EXPLORATION AND SETTLEMENT:


 * First European Explorers to Discover New Zealand (1642-1800)
 * A New Economy Introduced to New Zealand (1791-1840)
 * Missionaries Dispatched to New Zealand (1814)
 * The Treaty of Waitangi (1840)
 * European Colonisation of New Zealand (1800s)
 * The New Zealand Wars (1843-1872)
 * Railways Introduced to New Zealand (1863-1873)
 * The Colonial Government



PART 3: NEW ZEALAND IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY:


 * The Dawn of the Twentieth Century (1900-1914)
 * New Zealand's Involvement in World War I (1914-1918)
 * New Zealand in the Great Depression (1930s)
 * New Zealand in World War II (1939-1945)
 * Mid to Late Twentieth Century (1945-1999)
 * Famous New Zealanders in the Twentieth Century
 * Politics in the Twentieth Century

PART 4: NEW ZEALAND'S RECENT HISTORY:


 * New Zealand's Recent History (2000-2007)
 * New Zealand Prime Ministers at the Start of the Twenty First Century (1999-2008)
 * New Zealand Government at the Turn of the Twenty First Century (2000-2008)
 * New Zealand History/New Zealand During the COVID 19 Pandemic and the 2020 Recession (2019-?)

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 * Bibliography
 * Authors and Contributors
 * Print version
 * [//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/New_Zealand_History.pdf PDF version]