The History of Otago: The Origins and Growth of a Wakefield Class Settlement By A. H. MCLINTOCK (1949)

The History of Otago: The Origins and Growth of a Wakefield Class Settlement By A. H. MCLINTOCK

Hardcover Otago, NZ: Otago Centennial Historical Publications, 1949. 829pp, frontispiece: folding map of the region in 1948, b/w plates, maps, bibliography, index. Quarter bound, decorative cloth. Leather at spine head and foot and by rear board rubbed, heavily in place. Creased, rubbed spine. Dustjacket creased, scuffed, tiny pieces missing and chipped edges. Publisher: Otago Centennial Historical Publications 1949

From the Preface, the work is in four phases: 'the pre-1848 era which goes back to the Maori occupation of the land of Murihiku, sealing and whaling; the Scottish background, wherein is found the genesis of the Otago scheme; the provincial era, deals with the efforts of afew hundred Scottish settlers to conquer their environment and to give practical effect to those ideals which had been incorporated in the Articles of Settlement; and the beginning of the modern era with Otago bestowing upon New Zealand as a whole those ideas of land settlement, education and the like, which were a part of the provincial heritage of the south'.. First Edition.