The New Zealand Historical Atlas

Journal of Historical Geography

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 496-499

  Pawson, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

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EID: 0012545794     PISSN: 03057488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jhge.1997.0065     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. J. Black, Historiographical review. Historical atlases, The Historical Journal 37 (1994) 643-67.
2. See, for example, J. B. Harley, Maps, knowledge and power, in D. Cosgrove and S. Daniels (Eds), The Iconography of Landscape (Cambridge 1988) 277-311; R Kirkpatrick, Putting self on the map: an examination of user driven cartography (Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Canterbury 1991). As Deputy Editor, Dr Kirkpatrick has been instrumental in developing and mobilising critical cartographic design in the Atlas.
3. See, for example, J. B. Harley, Maps, knowledge and power, in D. Cosgrove and S. Daniels (Eds), The Iconography of Landscape (Cambridge 1988) 277-311; R Kirkpatrick, Putting self on the map: an examination of user driven cartography (Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Canterbury 1991). As Deputy Editor, Dr Kirkpatrick has been instrumental in developing and mobilising critical cartographic design in the Atlas.
4. J. Belich, The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict (Auckland 1986); J. Belich, Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders From Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth Century (Auckland 1996); M. P. K. Sorrenson, Towards a radical reinterpretation of New Zealand history: the role of the Waitangi Tribunal, in I. H. Kawharu (Ed.), Waitangi: Maori and Pakeha Perspectives of the Treaty of Waitangi (Auckland 1989) 158-78.
5. J. Belich, The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict (Auckland 1986); J. Belich, Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders From Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth Century (Auckland 1996); M. P. K. Sorrenson, Towards a radical reinterpretation of New Zealand history: the role of the Waitangi Tribunal, in I. H. Kawharu (Ed.), Waitangi: Maori and Pakeha Perspectives of the Treaty of Waitangi (Auckland 1989) 158-78.
6. J. Belich, The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict (Auckland 1986); J. Belich, Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders From Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth Century (Auckland 1996); M. P. K. Sorrenson, Towards a radical reinterpretation of New Zealand history: the role of the Waitangi Tribunal, in I. H. Kawharu (Ed.), Waitangi: Maori and Pakeha Perspectives of the Treaty of Waitangi (Auckland 1989) 158-78.
7. The Atlas has been a joint venture between the Historical Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs and the national mapping agency, the Department of Survey and Land Information (DOSLI). The Editor, Dr Malcolm McKinnon, has worked with a small core editorial, cartographic and research team, rarely exceeding seven or eight in size. Their efforts have been in conjunction with a much larger group of voluntary contributors drawn from geography, history, earth science, archaeology and Maori. DOSLI ceased to exist in 1996 and the Atlas cartographers were transferred to a new agency called Terralink NZ Ltd.
8. J. B. Harley, Historical geography and the cartographic illusion, Journal of Historical Geography 15 (1989) 80-91. Harley was calling for a cartography appropriate to "a socially inclined historical geography" (p. 87), rather than more technically enhanced conventional mapping styles.
9. Harley, op. cit.
10. D. Kerr and D. W. Holdsworth (Eds.), Historical Atlas of Canada. Vol. III: Addressing the Twentieth Century 1891-1961 (Toronto, 1990), xix, quoted in Black, op. cit., 650.
11. The Telegraph Department in New Zealand started to use these diagrams in 1874.
12. Black, op. cit., 662.
13. A number of historical atlases were produced in the United States and in Australia in and around 1976 and 1988 respectively. The first (eventually abandoned) attempt to produce a New Zealand historical atlas was for the centennial (in 1940, of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi). More recently, as the editor of this journal has pointed out to me, there has been a striking number of facsimile reprints of early modern maps and atlases produced in some of the 'new' countries of the former Eastern bloc, usually with official financial backing.