Creating a National Spirit: Celebrating New Zealand's Centennial
Contents
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- Introduction — by William Renwick p. 13
- Part I: The Centennial Exhibition
- 1: Business As Unusual: Managing and Funding the Centennial Exhibition — by Gavin McLean p. 25
- 2: New Zealand Displayed: Anscombe's 1940 Exhibition Design — by William Toomath p. 39
- 3: The Highway to Health and Happiness in the Government Court — by John E. Martin p. 54
- 4: Māori Buildings for the Centennial — by Bernard Kernot p. 65
- 5: Broadcasting the Centennial — by Patrick Day p. 77
- 6: 'Hurrah for Playland!' — by Gavin McLean p. 87
- Part II: Centennial Memorials
- 7: Reclaiming Waitangi — by William Renwick p. 99
- 8: Commemorating other Places and Days — by William Renwick p. 112
- 9: Auckland's Remembrance of Times Past — by Russell Stone p. 128
- 10: Scholefield's Dictionary — by Shirley Tunnicliff p. 139
- 11: The Uncompleted Centennial Atlas — by Malcolm McKinnon p. 149
- 12: History and Romance: The Making of the Centennial Historical Surveys — by Rachel Barrowman p. 161
- 13: Making New Zealand: Pictorial Surveys of a Century — by William Renwick p. 178
- 14: 'Touching the Mind of the Country': J. C. Beaglehole and the Design of the Centennial Publications — by Sydney J. Shep p. 193
- 15: Myth and Anti-myth in Literary Responses to the Centennial — by Lawrence Jones p. 207
- 16: Centennial Exhibitions of Art — by Roger Blackley p. 222
- 17: Centennial Music — by Allan Thomas p. 232
- 18: 'A More Democratic Basis': Centennial Drama — by Sue Dunlop, David Carnegie p. 246
- 19: One Hundred Crowded Years: The Centennial Film — by William Renwick p. 260
- Afterword: Reading the 1940 Centennial — by Jock Phillips p. 272
- Contributors p. 284
- Index p. 286