''Empire City: Wellington Becomes the Capital of New Zealand takes Wellington from the first encounter between Māori and the New Zealand Company in Te Whanganui-a-Tara in 1839 to its becoming the Empire City by the 1870s. It tells the story that began with a small and fragile New Zealand C...

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Main Author:	Martin, John E. 1951- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Wellington, New Zealand Victoria University Press 2022
Subjects:	Geschichte 1839-1879 Hauptstadt Neuseeland Wellington History / (OCoLC)fst01411628 Wellington (N.Z.) / History New Zealand - Wellington / (OCoLC)fst01204737
Summary:	''Empire City: Wellington Becomes the Capital of New Zealand takes Wellington from the first encounter between Māori and the New Zealand Company in Te Whanganui-a-Tara in 1839 to its becoming the Empire City by the 1870s. It tells the story that began with a small and fragile New Zealand Company Pākehā settlement relying only on whaling and racked by earthquakes. The story is how Wellington created a durable economic base and became a thriving political and commercial centre and the capital of New Zealand. With a prospering rural hinterland, an energetic mercantile community and an expanding port, and the administrative structure of central government, Wellington in the 1870s could look forward with confidence to its future as Empire City - the central nexus of the country and the local nexus of empire."--Back cover
Item Description:	Includes bibliographicak references and index
Physical Description:	xviii, 686 Seiten, 3 ungezählte Seiten zusammengefaltet als 1 Karte Illustrationen, Karten 25 cm
ISBN:	9781776920228