New Zealand – A millenium ago

摘要

Aotearoa/New Zealand was the last major landmass to be colonised by people before the era of mercantile capitalism. A particular predilection of the geographer is to attempt to envisage what is happening in various parts of the world over a similar period of time. Historical geography, the geography of past times, through imaginative reconstructions of trading networks within chosen spatial contexts, sees emphases on both human ingenuity and the exercise of power and control over environmental resources.