Frontier and/or cultural fragment? Interpretations of violence in colonial New Zealand

Social History

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 59-83

  Dunstall, Graeme ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIALISM; SOCIAL HISTORY; SOCIAL NETWORK; VIOLENCE;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 1442289691     PISSN: 03071022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0307102032000163750     Document Type: Article

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