The Origins of an Experimental Society: New Zealand, 1769–1860 Hannah Mettner The book is organized into

The book is organized into six broad categories:

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The Origins of an Experimental Society: New Zealand, 1769–1860 Hannah Mettner The book is organized intoThe history of New Zealand explained through powerful beliefs and the people who held them. In this major work, one of our leading historians ofers a new account of the origins of New Zealand: how Pkeh settlers nurtured on Enlightenment thought and evangelical humanitarianism encountered Mori, and how the two peoples together developed a distinctively experimental society. With James Cooks arrival in 1769 and the subsequent colonisation, New Zealand