Rate My Professor Tom Brooking

Among his key works are 'Unpacking the Kists: The Scots in New Zealand' (2013, co-authored with B. Patterson and J. McAloon, Otago University Press), 'Seeds of Empire: The Environmental Transformation of New Zealand' (2011, edited with E. Pawson, I.B. Tauris), 'Making a New Land: Environmental Histories of New Zealand' (2013, edited with E. Pawson, Otago University Press), and 'Richard Seddon: King of God's Own' (2014, Penguin). Other notable publications include the article 'Green Scots and golden Irish: The environmental impact of Scottish and Irish settlers in New Zealand: Some preliminary ruminations' (2009, Journal of Irish & Scottish Studies), 'Silences of grass: Retrieving the role of pasture plants in the development of New Zealand and the British Empire' (2007, Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History), and the chapter 'Weaving the tartan into the flax: Networks, identities, and Scottish migration to nineteenth-century Otago, New Zealand' (2006, in A Global Clan). Brooking's scholarship has advanced understandings of New Zealand's rural development, settler impacts, and environmental changes within imperial contexts.