Collision, compromise and conversion during the Wesleyan Hokianga mission, 1827-1855 : a critical study of Hokianga Māori, missionary and kauri merchant interactions / Gary A.M. Clover
- Bib ID:
- 8124752
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Clover, Gary A, author
- Description:
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- [Nelson] : Gary Allan Malcolm Clover, 2018
- ©2018
- xlvi, 492 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9780473440503 ((paperback))
- 0473440504
- Summary:
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"Early Hokianga was different. A unique blend of Ngāpuhi Māori, kauri milling settlers, and Wesleyan missionaries. Drawing upon modern scholarly insights, Methodist historian, Gary Clover, investigates the nature of culture change and Māori 'conversion' from 1827-1855 during New Zealand's early contact era. He narrates an absorbing tale of Māori and Pākeha inter-relationships, colourful personalities, and their foresight and failures. He explores how Hokianga Māori, amidst immense turmoil and change, adopted and 'Māorified' European technology, culture, and Christianity. Also how William White, a little known, extra-ordinary Wesleyan Mission Superintendent, moved far beyond the traditional missionary mould to help retain his 'Mihanere' chiefs' tribal lands. They entrusted White with large tracts to hold in trust. At Māngungu's chapel, school, farm, and sawyers' pits, they learnt skills to participate in the new economy, becoming competitive against their European rivals. But White's personality flaws and his opponents saw him dismissed in 1836. And outside forces by 1855 brought about the end of all three original Hokianga mission stations. A well-researched, scholarly, and detailed analysis of culture change and Māori 'conversion' in a region professional historians have largely neglected."--Publisher description.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction : Re-engaging with mission history, 1959-2017
- Hokianga-nui-o-Kupe, 1400-1846
- Early European settlement of 'The River', 1769-1846
- Beginnings at Whangaroa, 1823-1827
- Hobbs, Stack and Wade begin again, 1827-1828
- 'A great and arduous work' at Mangungu, 1828-1829
- 'Joyful intelligence' William White returns, 1830
- First signs of a turning, 1831-1832
- The mission expands, 1833-1834
- Missionary mana and White's 'mihanere', 1835
- A 'sinister and overbearing minister' and 'that mad knave', 1836-1838
- The ongoing fallout, 1836-1846
- The Turner years, 1836-1839
- A drowning and a Treaty, 1839-1841
- Crown government changes everything, 1841-1845
- A falling away and re-building : final years, 1846-1855
- But was it 'conversion'?
- Appendices: 1. Significant Wesleyan baptisms to 1851
- 2. Biographical summaries of some Hokianga chiefs no included in The dictionary of New Zealand biography
- 3. Biographical summaries of two lay mission helpers
- List of European settlers and merchants mentioned in the text.
- Notes:
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- National Library of Australia's YY 2019-4198 copy signed by author
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 456-470) and index.
- Subject:
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- White, William, 1794-1875
- Wesleyan Methodist Church of New Zealand -- History -- 19th century
- Wesleyan Methodist Church of New Zealand
- Missions -- New Zealand -- Far North District -- History -- 19th century
- Maori (New Zealand people) -- Missions -- New Zealand -- Far North District -- History -- 19th century
- Ngā Puhi (New Zealand people) -- Missions -- New Zealand -- Far North District -- History -- 19th century
- Kauri industry -- New Zealand -- Far North District -- History -- 19th century
- Kauri industry
- Maori (New Zealand people) -- Missions
- Missions
- New Zealand -- Far North District
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