{"product_id":"the-history-of-new-zealand-von-auke-de-haan","title":"The History of New Zealand","description":"Long before maps pinned it down, Polynesians sliced through Pacific swells in double-hulled canoes, naming the land Aotearoa for its long white cloud—and promptly set about taming it with stone adzes and bird snares. Fast-forward to Cook's Endeavour nosing into Ship Cove in 1770, bartering nails for potatoes and unwittingly lighting the fuse for whalers, missionaries, and a scribbled treaty under a gum tree at Waitangi. Hobson raised the flag, but the promises curdled quick: land grabs, musket volleys in the Waikato, and a patchwork colony stitched from sheep stations and settler grudges, all while the Southern Alps shrugged off the fuss.\n\nBy the 1860s, gold fever hit Otago like a seismic wave—prospectors hacking through tussock for nuggets that bankrolled railways and a rush of Brits dreaming of El Dorado down under. Women, tired of the sidelines, marched with petitions thicker than a kete, cracking the vote in 1893 before the world caught up. Then came the trenches: ANZACs slogging up Chunuk Bair, forging a national scar that still echoes in dawn services, while back home the Spanish flu felled more than the war ever did.\n\nTwentieth-century tremors shook it all loose—from welfare state experiments to the '81 Springbok tour riots that bloodied the streets for apartheid's end, capping with Lange's nuclear-free gut-punch that flipped off superpowers. Rebuilt from 'quake rubble and Treaty settlements, New Zealand stands as a bicultural brew: hobbit holes hiding old wounds, pavlova fights over origins, and a quiet roar saying small places can roar loud. This history's no dry scroll—it's a billy tea chat with the ghosts of gumdiggers and kaumatua.\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783565075485\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eLand, Conflict, and the Search for Unity (Pocketbook Edition)\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783565075485","offer_id":57681646321989,"sku":"9783565075485","price":15.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/310eada9-8d16-48b6-9c9b-45c7485981e9.jpg?v=1777528967","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/the-history-of-new-zealand-von-auke-de-haan","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}