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(3) | None | "From its earliest days, New Zealand has viewed Russia's presence in the Pacific as themain external threat. Professor Barratt, a specialist on Russian history, has examined New Zealand archives and uncovered a mixture of comedies of errors, and of deft attempts by the New Zealand government to use the threat of Russian expansion in the Pacific as a lever to obtain finanical assistance from Great Britain. Editorials, letters, reports, cartoons even, have been used for the picture of a serio-comic episode in the history of the South Pacific. At the same time "Russophobia in New Zealand 1838-1908" is a scholarly contribution to the emerging history of the Pacific basin as a whole." -- Inside front cover.… (more) |
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Between November 1830 and September 1831, journals or newspapers in London, Edinburgh, Sydney and for good measure Van Diemen's Land, published alarmist articles... | |
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None ▾Book descriptions "From its earliest days, New Zealand has viewed Russia's presence in the Pacific as themain external threat. Professor Barratt, a specialist on Russian history, has examined New Zealand archives and uncovered a mixture of comedies of errors, and of deft attempts by the New Zealand government to use the threat of Russian expansion in the Pacific as a lever to obtain finanical assistance from Great Britain. Editorials, letters, reports, cartoons even, have been used for the picture of a serio-comic episode in the history of the South Pacific. At the same time "Russophobia in New Zealand 1838-1908" is a scholarly contribution to the emerging history of the Pacific basin as a whole." -- Inside front cover. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Hard Cover. Photos, Art (illustrator). 1st. 22cm x 15cm, 180 pages, | |
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