John McIndoe Ltd 1982 edition, very good condition with dustwrapper
This work looks at the history of Canterbury from the early colonial period up to the present day. The people of Canterbury, in the opinion of the author, possess `an unusually strong awareness' about the province, `and many of them see it as a homeland.' The Canterbury which emerges here is not just the `official' Canterbury of landowners, politicians and bishops, but a lively and changeable society. Although regarded at first as a `very aristocratic province,' it was also a focus for radicalism, socialism and `faddish' religion. From these beginnings developed an unusually prosperous province which for two generations was a `thoroughly bourgeois place.' More recently, this comfortable society has begun once again to shift and alter, causing anxiety to many and new opportunities for others. These changes of fortune are discussed in relation to migration, domestic life, class, politics, crime, religion, education, sexuality and pleasure...