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Americans New Zealand Biography Frontier and pioneer life New Zealand Interracial marriage New Zealand Case studies Maori (New Zealand people) Biography New Zealand Race relations History 18th century New Zealand Race relations History 19th century Polynesia Antiquities Polynesia History Polynesians Origin Thompson, Christina 1959- MarriageFilter By Authors
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Americans New Zealand Biography Frontier and pioneer life New Zealand Interracial marriage New Zealand Case studies Maori (New Zealand people) Biography New Zealand Race relations History 18th century New Zealand Race relations History 19th century Polynesia Antiquities Polynesia History Polynesians Origin Thompson, Christina 1959- MarriageFilter By Authors
Thompson, ChristinaThompson, Christina
Summary: Relates the author's marriage as an American middle-class student to a Maori tradesman from a background of rural poverty, and explores their relationship within the wider context of the cultural clash between Europeans and Maoris throughout New Zealand's history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 993.01 THOThompson, Christina
Summary: "A blend of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester's Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know. For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019