GEOG 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Settler Colonialism, Joseph Banks, Gold Rush
Document Summary
To consider the paterns and processes of setler colonialism. To consider the environmental transformaions that accompanied anglo-european setlement in. Whalers (1790-1820s: massive slaughter of seals and whales. Interlopers: lumbering for kauri trees(good quality wood, trader, guns, axes, muskets, radical shit in possible lethal implicaions of warfare. Pressures on the briish government to extend authority over new zealand in late 1830s: rivalries, missionaries and the new zealand company. Colonizaion: 1840: 2,000 pakeha setlers, numbers would increase rapdly over th decades. Treaty of waitangi (1840: maori chiefs would sign agreement to conirm the connecion between briish and local. Pressure from setlement groups, establish some form of setlement that would separate class disincions in nz. The naive land count, 1865: from pre-empion to a private land market, from customary itle to individual freehold itle. Diseases include: scrofula, tuberculosis, venereal diseases and measles. Maori populaions (esimates and census igures: 1840: 100- 120,000, 1857: 56,000, 1896: 42,000, 1981: 280,000.
