Garrison World

Description

Title: Garrison World
Author: Charlotte Macdonald
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01/11/2025
Imprint: Bridget Williams Books
ISBN: 9781991033703

A major work by a distinguished historian, Garrison World examines the lives of soldiers and families constituting the British military presence in New Zealand and other territories during the nineteenth century.

The British Empire’s expansion relied on a vast, mobile army (‘redcoats’), supported by a dominant navy (‘bluejackets’). Despite New Zealand’s treatybased beginnings with tangata whenua, signifi cant British forces soon
arrived. Initially summoned to contain sporadic violence from disputes between iwi and the new colonial government, these military regiments and naval vessels soon established a lasting presence.
Spanning the decades 1840–1870, the book bridges the gap between narratives of the New Zealand Wars and those detailing settlement and colonial life.