Open AccessThe Big Smoke. New Zealand Cities 1840-1920
Author(s) -
Eric Pawson
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of new zealand studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.102
0eISSN - 2324-3740
pISSN - 1176-306X
DOI - 10.26686/jnzs.v0ins26.4846
Subject(s) - anticipation (artificial intelligence) , publishing , project commissioning , social life , media studies , sociology , history , advertising , aesthetics , social science , political science , art , law , business , artificial intelligence , computer science
This substantial book focuses on the social life of the New Zealand city between the 1840s and about 1920. The evocative title is an invitation to the reader, the term originally emerging to portray “the sense of anticipation and excitement” of going to and experiencing the city and city life. Its application historically to New Zealand cities as they began to grow is described as “surely aspirational – or ironical” (p. 29)