An Uncommon Land: From an ancestral past of enclosure towards a regenerative future

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A highly original, intriguing and excellent work of scholarship, An Uncommon Land looks to the past to provide a pathway to a sustainable and fairer future. Weaving family histories of migration brilliantly into broader themes of colonisation, the commodification of land and climate change, Knight suggests we look to the concept of the commons as a way of managing finite environmental resources for the benefit of all. A timely, topical and essential read. - Vincent OMalley, author of The Great War for New Zealand 18002000.

Knights research is wide ranging and impressive and the text flows seamlessly as she builds a complex and multi-faceted argument Tom Brooking, Emeritus Professor of History, Otago University

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Dr Catherine Knight is an award-winning writer and environmental historian, and a policy practitioner. She is an Honorary Research Associate at the School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University, and the author of five previous books, includingNature and Wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand(Totara Press, 2020), Beyond Manapouri: 50 years of environmental politics in New Zealand(Canterbury University Press, 2018),New Zealands Rivers: An environmental history(Canterbury University Press, 2016) and Ravaged Beauty: An environmental historyof the Manawatu(Dunmore/Totara Press, 2014).