Te Parapara Garden, Hamilton Gardens
Photo courtesy of Hamilton Gardens
New Zealand Environmental History: A Story of
Transformations via Farming and Gardening
Presented by Professor Tom Brooking
Wednesday 19 August, 5.30pm - 7.00pm
Chartwell Room, Hamilton Gardens
This lecture is free and open to the public. Proudly presented by the University of Waikato History Programme and Historical Research
Unit (HRU) and the Hamilton Gardens. For further details, contact HRU Director: Dr James Beattie at [email protected].
This talk will explain the emergence of environmental
history in New Zealand in the 1990s and describe how the
local variant differed (and differs) from that developed in
Australia, North America, Britain and Europe.
It will move on to discuss how New Zealand’s histories
of farming and gardening (both public and private) have
contributed to the special flavour of environmental
history, before concluding with a few suggestions as to
how the ongoing study of farming and gardening might
shape future investigations.
Tom Brooking is Professor of History, University of Otago.
He specialises in New Zealand and comparative rural and
environmental history, New Zealand political history and
the historical links between New Zealand and Scotland
This research has focused upon environmental
transformation and the role of colonising peoples in
that process, particularly farming and its economic,
environmental and sociological impacts. He has published
seven sole author books, two co-authored books, and
three edited volumes.