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From early Polynesian navigators to missionaries, colonists and migrants, Massey University historian Professor Michael Belgrave has published the first major national history of Aoteaora New Zealand in 20 years.
Becoming Aotearoa: A New History of New Zealand is a big and bold book taking March 2019 as the starting point to examine how tangata whenua and migrants have together built an open, liberal society based on a series of social contracts.
Frayed though they may sometimes be, Belgrave tells Mihi and Susie these contracts have created a country that is distinct.
