A Concise History of New Zealand
Smith Cambridge University Press, $39.95 pb, 320 pp, 9781107402171
A Concise History of New Zealand by Philippa Mein
New Zealand coins often sneak into Australian purses. Both currencies bear the queen’s, and some coins have common colonial symbols on the front (Cook’s Endeavour on the Kiwi fifty cent, for example), but these coins only work by stealth. They have value if they can pass as Australian. Recognised for what they are – foreign objects – their currency evaporates.
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A Concise History of New Zealand
by Philippa Mein
Smith Cambridge University Press, $39.95 pb, 320 pp, 9781107402171
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