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The Revolution that Nearly Was: How Aotearoa New Zealand’s progress was frustrated, and utopia mislaidA book in multiple chapter-length posts about modernisation and backsliding, with a twin focus on the attempted mid-twentieth-century industrialisation of Aotearoa New Zealand, and the wider attempt to make poverty history after 1945.
Note from the editor
A book in multiple chapter-length posts about modernisation and backsliding, with a twin focus on the attempted mid-twentieth-century industrialisation of Aotearoa New Zealand, and the wider attempt to make poverty history after 1945.
Editors
Chris Harris, PhD
I am an urban historian from Aotearoa New Zealand. With an engineering background, I also have a PhD in planning and economics.