Cover; New Zealand's empire; Contents ; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: New Zealand's empire: Katie Pickles and Catharine Coleborne; PART I 'Empire at home'; 1 Te Karere Maori and the defence of empire, 1855-60: Kenton Storey; 2 An imperial icon Indigenised: the Queen Victoria Memorial at Ohinemutu: Mark Stocker; 3 'Two branches of the brown Polynesians': ethnographic fieldwork, colonial governmentality, and the 'dance of agency': Conal McCarthy; PART II Imperial mobility

12 Australia as New Zealand's western frontier, 1965-95: Rosemary Baird and Philippa Mein Smith13 Southern outreach: New Zealand claims Antarctica from the 'heroic era' to the twenty-first century: Katie Pickles ; 14 A radical reinterpretation of New Zealand history: apology, remorse, and reconciliation: Giselle Byrnes; Index