Access Today Boundary Markers: Land Surveying And The Colonisation Of New Zealand Drafted By Giselle Byrnes Compiled As EText

in the footsteps of other recent cultural historians of colonisation see, for intance, Paul Carter's The Road to Botany Bay, Byrnes analyses some of the ways that the land was defined and colonial limits constructed in midth

century New Zealand.
It has often been noted that colonisers reshaped the land clearing the bush and forest and so forth to look like the place they had come from.
In focussing on the work of surveyors, this book effectively links the technical process of marking the land's boundaries to the cultural apparatus of colonial redefinition of the land as material place and metaphorical space.
Examining the role of land surveying in the colonization of New Zealand, this book argues that new ways of naming and measuring the land were laid over boundaries, place names, and territories established by Maori over several centuries.
It examines, through the activities and words of the land surveyors themselves, the complexities and inherent contradictions of colonization, This is groundbreaking scholarship for postcolonial New Zealand, .