Class, gender and the vote : historical perspectives from New Zealand

Contents: Introduction 1 Stability and Egalitarianism: New Zealand 1911-1951 2 Residential Segregation and the Interwar Christchurch Experience 3 Church, Occupation and Class in Southern Dunedin, 1890-1940 4 'For Better or Worse': Marriage Patterns in Dunedin's Southern Suburbs, 1881-1938 5 Apprenticeship or Proletariat? Social Mobility in Rural Nineteenth Century Canterbury 6 'Educating the Elite?: Otago Boys' High School Fathers and Sons, 1863-1903 7 Was Gender a Factor in Voter Participation at New Zealand Elections? 8 Did Farmers Really 'lurch towards the left' in 1935? 9 The Unlikely Incumbent: Clyde Carr in Timaru, 1928-1954 10 The Past as it Appeared to Those Present: 'Class' in the Eye of the Beholder in 1930s and 1940s New Zealand Society 11 Visual Constructs of Wealth in The Maoriland Worker, 1911-12: Cartoon and Intertext 12 Past Lessons: Best Practices in Quantitative Historical Research Notes.