Exploring New Zealand's most important and extensive relationship--with
Australia--on a variety of levels, this wide-ranging, fresh analysis
focuses on trans-Tasman communities largely ignored by national
histories. The narrative concentrates on 20th-century relations in a
working region defined by a history of traffic in ideas, policies,
objects, and people between the two countries. From early maps of
Australasia to accounts of a shared business world and sports bonds, a
common past is unearthed and reordered in a history filled with wit and
insight.