Story: Rural mythologies

More links and websites

• New Zealand: an urban/rural profile

  This page on the Statistics New Zealand website provides information about New Zealand’s urban and rural populations.

• The farthest promised land: English villagers, New Zealand immigrants of the 1870s

  An online version of Rollo Arnold’s book, which has extensive material about the rural imagery used to attract settlers to New Zealand.

More suggestions and sources

• Fairburn, Miles. The ideal society and its enemies: the foundations of modern New Zealand society, 1850–1900. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1989.
• Fairburn, Miles. ‘The rural myth and the new urban frontier: an approach to New Zealand social history, 1870–1940.’ New Zealand Journal of History 9, no. 1 (April 1975): 3–21.
• Jim Henderson’s Open Country. Auckland: Heinemann, 1982.
• Phillips, Jock. A man’s country? The image of the Pakeha male, a history. Auckland: Penguin Books, 1996.
• Woodhouse, A. E., ed. New Zealand farm and station verse, 1850–1950. Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1950.