Story: Farming in the economy

More links and websites

• Pasture, present and future – a brief history of pastoralism New Zealand

  Article written by Professor Tom Brooking in 2006 tracing the development of pastoralism in New Zealand.

• Longbeach

  This web page gives a history of the historic Longbeach farm in Canterbury, which was founded in 1864.

More suggestions and sources

• Bloomfield, G. T. New Zealand: a handbook of historical studies. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1984.
• Cumberland, Kenneth B. Landmarks. Surry Hills: Reader’s Digest, 1981.
• Lloyd Prichard, Muriel F. An economic history of New Zealand to 1939. Auckland: Collins, 1970.
• McLauchlan, Gordon. The farming of New Zealand: the people and the land. Auckland: Penguin, 2006.
• Pawson, Eric, and Tom Brooking, eds. Environmental histories of New Zealand. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2002.