Land Surveying and the Colonisation of New Zealand
by
Giselle Byrnes
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
In a country where land disputes were the chief cause of conflict between the coloniser and the colonised, surveying could never be a neutral, depoliticised pastime.In a groundbreaking piece of scholarship, Giselle Byrnes examines the way surveyors became figuratively and literally ‘the cutting edge...