BLOOD & DIRT: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand, by Jared Davidson (Bridget Williams Books, $50)
Crime and punishment, capital and labour. Mixed together, they serve up, in Jared Davidson’s Blood & Dirt, a reappraisal of incarceration since colonial settlement. All four ingredients arrived in the South Pacific as early as the 18th century with Christian missionaries and traders eager to expand their activities.
The Protestant
