Notes

Table of contents: 1. Introduction : beginnings of a settler society -- 2. 1900-1909 : King Dick's long shadow -- 3. 1910-1919 : strife on two fronts -- 4. 1920-1929 : the see-saw years -- 5. 1930-1939 : dark days and new dawn -- 6. 1940-1949 : war and fretful peace -- 7. 1950-1959 : 1951 and all that -- 8. 1960-1969 : steady as she goes -- 9. 1970-1979 : Big Norm and Little Rob -- 10. 1980-1089 : Labour veers to the right -- 11. 1990-1999 : years of adjustment -- 12. 2000-2005 : the prime of Helen Clark