Quarantine!: Protecting New Zealand At The Border

Description

As a group of islands for which biosecurity is vital, New Zealand provides an ideal focus for this book, the world's first national history of quarantine.

Author description

Gavin McLean and Tim Shoebridge are historians at the History Group of the Ministry for Culture & Heritage. Gavin has just finished a history of the Lyall Bay Surf & Life Saving Club and a photographic history of Otago and is writing a history of the prime ministership. Tim, who published The Good Citizen: A Life of C.E. Daniell of Masterton and a guide to the National War Memorial in 2009, is writing a history of the impact of the automobile on New Zealand.

Table of contents

Prologue: NZ's increasingly permeable borders -- 1: 'Another plague ship lying in our harbour': Human quarantine before 1939 -- 2: 'Open for the introduction of every abomination': Animal and plant quarantine before 1939 -- 3 'More afraid of what we do not know than we do know': Quarantine enters the aviation age 1940-64 -- 4 'Hold for agriculture': The modern quarantine system emerges, 1965-84 -- 5 'Way ahead in the world': Bio-invasion and biosecurity, 1985-2010 -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index.