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Journal Article
The first world war and the making of colonial memory
2015
Overview
New Zealand went to war in 1914 as part of an empire but emerged with a modern memory. So powerful has that force of remembrance been that it has obscured another history: the making of colonial memory. Colonial memory focused on the nineteenth-century conflicts of the 1860s: the ‘Maori Wars’ as they were widely known by the early twentieth century. Just months before war in Europe was declared in August 1914 large crowds of New Zealanders turned out to events marking the fiftieth anniversary of the major battles that had taken place in Waikato and Tauranga in 1864. The anniversary occasions were the culmination of efforts from various quarters in the first decade or so of the twentieth century to record a vanishing history and pay tribute to those who had sacrificed their lives in ‘building the country’.
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Victoria University of Wellington
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