Dear Oliver : uncovering a Pākehā history / Peter Wells.

9780994147363
9780994147370 (e-book)

Auckland, New Zealand : Massey University Press, 2018.

English

1 online resource (333 pages) : illustrations

DU420.W445 .D437 2018

929.20993

"A fresh way to look at New Zealand's history. When writer and historian Peter Wells found a cache of family letters amongst his elderly mother's effects, he realised that he had the means of retracing the history of a not-untypical family swept out to New Zealand during the great nineteenth-century human diaspora from Britain. His family experienced the war against Te Kooti, the Boer War, the Napier earthquake of 1931 and the Depression. They rose from servant status to the comforts of the middle class. There was army desertion, suicide, adultery, AIDS, secrets and lies. There was also success, prosperity and social status. In digging deep into their stories, examining letters from the past and writing a letter to the future, Peter Wells constructs a novel and striking way to view the history of Pākehā New Zealanders"--Back cover.

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