Bøger af Gary A. M. Clover

"Early Hokianga was different. A unique blend of Ngåapuhi Måaori, kauri milling settlers, and Wesleyan missionaries. Drawing upon modern scholarly insights, Methodist historian, Gary Clover, investigates the nature of culture change and Måaori conversion from 1827 1855 during New Zealands early contact era. He narrates an absorbing tale of Måaori and Påakeha inter-relationships, colourful personalities, and their foresight and failures. He explores how Hokianga Måaori, amidst immense turmoil and change, adopted and Måaorified European technology, culture, and Christianity. Also how William White, a little known, extra ordinary Wesleyan Mission Superintendent, moved far beyond the traditional missionary mould to help retain his Mihanere chiefs tribal lands. They entrusted White with large tracts to hold in trust. At Måangungus chapel, school, farm, and sawyers pits, they learnt skills to participate in the new economy, becoming competitive against their European rivals. But Whites personality flaws and his opponents saw him dismissed in 1836. And outside forces by 1855 brought about the end of all three original Hokianga mission stations. A well researched, scholarly, and detailed analysis of culture change and Måaori conversion in a region professional historians have largely neglected."--Publisher description.

Cornishman, the Revd William Woon, 1803-1858, between 1830 and 1853 served as a Wesleyan missionary printer in Tonga and New Zealand using his day's advanced iron Albion and Columbian presses. Though not of the top rank of missionaries, his printing output was prodigious. In New Zealand it was second in importance only to that of another Cornishman, the Revd William Colenso of the Church Missionary Society, who had a similar eight year long printing career. Despite the oppressive heat and humidity, in Tonga, in two years Woon produced about 25,000 booklets of some 54,000 pages. In New Zealand between 1836 and 1844, from the Wesleyans' Mangungu press Woon produced some 60,000 items or around three million pages in the Maori language of New Testament Gospels, small booklets on divinity, first readers, school exercise books, class tickets, and farming almanacs, some of which are of particular importance for their literary preservation of distinctive Maori dialects. A genial and laid-back giant, Woon won the affection of his Maori charges, one Hokianga chief taking the baptised name of Wiremu Wunu (William Woon). But Woon died in 1858 believing his missionary work had been in vain.