TY  - BOOK
AU  - Martin, John E.,
TI  - Empire city: Wellington becomes the capital of New Zealand 
SN  - 9781776920228
AV  - DU478.84 .L359 2022
U1  - 993.63 23
PY  - 2022///.
CY  - Wellington, New Zealand : 
PB  - Te Herenga Waka University Press, 
KW  - Wellington (N.Z.)
KW  - History
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographicak references and index
N2  - ''Empire City: Wellington Becomes the Capital of New Zealand takes Wellington from the first encounter between Māori and the New Zealand Company in Te Whanganui-a-Tara in 1839 to its becoming the Empire City by the 1870s. It tells the story that began with a small and fragile New Zealand Company Pākehā settlement relying only on whaling and racked by earthquakes. The story is how Wellington created a durable economic base and became a thriving political and commercial centre and the capital of New Zealand. With a prospering rural hinterland, an energetic mercantile community and an expanding port, and the administrative structure of central government, Wellington in the 1870s could look forward with confidence to its future as Empire City - the central nexus of the country and the local nexus of empire"--Back cover
ER  -