'Blood and Dirt' - Māmari Stephens & Jared Davidson (BWB Talks)

'Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand' explains, for the first time, the making of New Zealand and its Pacific empire through the prism of prison labour. Jared Davidson asks us to look beyond the walls of our nineteenth- and early twentieth-century prisons to see penal practice as playing an active, central role in the creation of modern New Zealand. Journeying from the Hohi mission station in the Bay of Islands through to Milford Sound, vast forest plantations, and on to Parliament itself, this vivid and engaging book will change the way you view New Zealand.
'Blood and Dirt' is discussed here by Jared Davidson (author) and Māmari Stephens (Faculty of Law, Te Herenga Waka) at the book's launch at City Gallery Wellington.
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Videography by Reverie