Nation-building or nature-destroying? Why it’s time NZ faced up to the environmental damage of its colonial past
- Written by: Olli Hellmann, Senior Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations, University of Waikato
National Library of New Zealand, CC BY-NC-NDThe ways in which New Zealand remembers European colonisation have changed markedly in recent years. Critics have been chipping away at the public image of Captain James Cook, the New Zealand Wars have been included in the new compulsory history curriculum, and streets honouring colonial figures have...
