Tom Brooking
Biographic Data
| ID | 504843 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Brooking |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Brooking |
| SIGNATURE | BROOKING T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
On Taungurung Land
As someone who has worked on land settlement by white settlers and its impact upon the indigenous people of Aotearoa/New Zealand for a long time it has been interesting, if more than a little distr
A Land of Plenty? Colonial Diet in Rural New Zealand
Eric Pawson
A noisy sub-Imperialist
This article will be divided into four parts. First, it will traverse the surprisingly rich historiography on Richard Seddon’s efforts to establish a New Zealand sub-Empire in the Pacific. Most commentary has been relatively benign, especially that resulting from the many theses written in my own department, at the University of Otago, under Angus Ross in the 1960s. In the 1980s these adventures began to be viewed more critically by the likes of …
Antarctica
A Model Colony
This article argues that Scotland was presented to two or more generations of New Zealand schoolchildren, from the late nineteenth century down to the 1960s, as a kind of model colony because it had joined willingly with England in union in 1707 and lived peacefully within the British world/empire thereafter. Such a view may have played fast and loose with history, but it held out obvious messages to both Maori children and the children of white …
Entries
Pastoralism and politics
Special Forum
Silences of Grass
This article discusses the role of grasslands and their products in the development of empire between 1850 and 1930. It explores the paradox that, despite the significance of introduced grasslands in terms of environmental transformation and imperial trade, most contemporary observers ignored this or took it for granted as, generally, have today's historians of empire. The article charts relations between grassland development, improvement and em…
Fescue to the Rescue
Fescue to the Rescue
Under British settlement, New Zealand’s export income became increasingly dependent upon new and improved pasture for sheep and cattle. While the introduction of familiar pasture plants--such as ryegrass and cocksfoot--was preferred, from the 1880s farmers also experimented with different grass species to suit newly experienced environmental conditions. Both Chewings fescue (Festuca rubra var. commutata) and paspalum (Paspalum dilatatum) were exp…
Disputed Territories
Book Review| October 01 2005 Disputed Territories: Land, Culture and Identity in Settler Societies Disputed Territories: Land, Culture and Identity in Settler Societies. David Trigger and Gareth Griffiths. Tom Brooking Tom Brooking Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2005) 79 (4): 506–508. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-79.4.506 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation…
Seeds of Empire
The traditional image of New Zealand is one of verdant landscapes with sheep grazing on lush green pastures. Yet this landscape is almost entirely an artificial creation. As Britain became increasingly reliant on its overseas territories for supplies of food and raw material, so all over the Empire indigenous plants were replaced with English grasses to provide the worked up products of pasture - meat, butter, cheese, wool, and hides. In New Zeal…
The ties that bind
Urban society and the opportunity structure in New Zealand, 1902–22
From the Cradle to the Grave. A Biography of Michael Joseph Savage
A Land of Plenty? Colonial Diet in Rural New Zealand
Silences of Grass
This article discusses the role of grasslands and their products in the development of empire between 1850 and 1930. It explores the paradox that, despite the significance of introduced grasslands in terms of environmental transformation and imperial trade, most contemporary observers ignored this or took it for granted as, generally, have today's historians of empire. The article charts relations between grassland development, improvement and em…
Special Forum
Urban society and the opportunity structure in New Zealand, 1902–22
From the Cradle to the Grave. A Biography of Michael Joseph Savage
The ties that bind
Urban society and the opportunity structure in New Zealand, 1902–22
Seeds of Empire
The traditional image of New Zealand is one of verdant landscapes with sheep grazing on lush green pastures. Yet this landscape is almost entirely an artificial creation. As Britain became increasingly reliant on its overseas territories for supplies of food and raw material, so all over the Empire indigenous plants were replaced with English grasses to provide the worked up products of pasture - meat, butter, cheese, wool, and hides. In New Zeal…
Disputed Territories
Book Review| October 01 2005 Disputed Territories: Land, Culture and Identity in Settler Societies Disputed Territories: Land, Culture and Identity in Settler Societies. David Trigger and Gareth Griffiths. Tom Brooking Tom Brooking Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2005) 79 (4): 506–508. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-79.4.506 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation…
Fescue to the Rescue
Fescue to the Rescue
Under British settlement, New Zealand’s export income became increasingly dependent upon new and improved pasture for sheep and cattle. While the introduction of familiar pasture plants--such as ryegrass and cocksfoot--was preferred, from the 1880s farmers also experimented with different grass species to suit newly experienced environmental conditions. Both Chewings fescue (Festuca rubra var. commutata) and paspalum (Paspalum dilatatum) were exp…
Special Forum
Silences of Grass
This article discusses the role of grasslands and their products in the development of empire between 1850 and 1930. It explores the paradox that, despite the significance of introduced grasslands in terms of environmental transformation and imperial trade, most contemporary observers ignored this or took it for granted as, generally, have today's historians of empire. The article charts relations between grassland development, improvement and em…
Pastoralism and politics
Entries
A Model Colony
This article argues that Scotland was presented to two or more generations of New Zealand schoolchildren, from the late nineteenth century down to the 1960s, as a kind of model colony because it had joined willingly with England in union in 1707 and lived peacefully within the British world/empire thereafter. Such a view may have played fast and loose with history, but it held out obvious messages to both Maori children and the children of white …
A noisy sub-Imperialist
This article will be divided into four parts. First, it will traverse the surprisingly rich historiography on Richard Seddon’s efforts to establish a New Zealand sub-Empire in the Pacific. Most commentary has been relatively benign, especially that resulting from the many theses written in my own department, at the University of Otago, under Angus Ross in the 1960s. In the 1980s these adventures began to be viewed more critically by the likes of …
Antarctica
Eric Pawson
On Taungurung Land
As someone who has worked on land settlement by white settlers and its impact upon the indigenous people of Aotearoa/New Zealand for a long time it has been interesting, if more than a little distr
A Land of Plenty? Colonial Diet in Rural New Zealand
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