Disputed histories : imagining New Zealand's pasts / edited by Tony Ballantyne and Brian Moloughney.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-273) and index.

Introduction : Angles of vision / Tony Ballantyne & Brian Moloughney -- Retrievable time : prehistoric colonisation of South Polynesia from the outside in and the inside out / Atholl Anderson -- Leadership in Ancient Polynesia / Michael P.J. Reilly -- Asia in Murihiku : towards a transnational history of colonial culture / Tony Ballantyne & Brian Moloughney -- 'In-between' lives : studies from within a colonial society / Judith Binney -- Marriage and the family on the colonial frontier / David Thomson -- Is there a good case for New Zealand exceptionalism? / Miles Fairburn -- Chance residues : photographs and social history / Bronwyn Dalley -- A Germaine moment : style, language and audience / Barbara L. Brookes -- The shaping of a field / Erik Olssen.

Reflects on the writing about New Zealand's past. This book tells much about New Zealand's past and how historians have imagined them. It indicates particular concerns with what the country is, and the role of history as a discipine within the nation. Itasks questions and ventures some answers, and surveys the work of historians since the 1980s.