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Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand

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Overview: *WINNER 2025 W.H. Oliver Prize for Best History Book; 2024 Public Environmental History Prize; 2024 Bert Roth Award for Labour History; 2023 International Labor History Association Honorable Mention Award; longlisted for the 2024 Ockham New Zealand General Non-Fiction Book Award; a best book of 2023 according to the NZ Listener, The Spinoff, RNZ, Sunday Star Times and The Australia Institute.Picture, for a minute, every artwork of colonial New Zealand you can think of. Now add a chain gang. Hard labour men guarded by other men with guns. Men moving heavy metal. Men picking at the earth. Over and over again. This was the reality of nineteenth-century New Zealand.Forced labour haunts the streets we walk today and the spaces we take for granted. The unfree work of prisoners has shaped New Zealand's urban centres and rural landscapes, and Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa – the Pacific – in profound and unsettling ways. Yet these stories are largely unknown: a hidden history in plain sight.Blood and Dirt explains, for the first time, the making of New Zealand and its Pacific empire through the prism of prison labour. Jared Davidson asks us to look beyond the walls of our nineteenth- and early twentieth-century prisons to see penal practice as playing an active, central role in the creation of modern New Zealand. Journeying from the Hohi mission station in the Bay of Islands through to Milford Sound, vast forest plantations, and on to Parliament itself, this vivid and engaging book will change the way you view New Zealand.

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Pages 296
Language Eng
Publisher Bridget Williams Books
Published August 1, 2023
ISBN 179251745
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Jared Davidson is a writer and avid reader based in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing writing full-time, they spent over a decade working in education. When not working on their next book, Jared Davidson can usually be found hiking with their dog or trying out new coffee shops in their neighborhood.

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