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9781869507923
Leading the Way : How New Zealand Women Won the Vote
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NZ$ 39.99 each
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Author:
Megan Hutching
Published by:
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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New Zealand was the first country in the world to give women the vote, in 1893, an achievement of which we are justly proud.
Respected historian Megan Hutching records and explains this momentous event, including profiles of the women who brought about the government's change of earth.
This important book will add to our history as a socially progressive country, and will find a wide readership among people interested in social history.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780143018674
The Penguin History of New Zealand
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Michael King
Published by:
Penguin Books Ltd
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Shortlisted for the 2004 Montana NZ Book Awards, History section.
New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce full democracy. Between those events, and in the century that followed the franchise, the movements and the conflicts of human history have been played out more intensively and more rapidly in New Zealand than anywhere else on Earth.
The Penguin History of New Zealand
, a new book for a new century, tells that story in all its colour and drama. The narrative that emerges is an inclusive one about men and women, Maori and Pakeha. It shows that British motives in colonising New Zealand were essentially humane: and that Maori, far from being victims of "fatal impact", coped heroically with colonisation and survived by selectively accepting and adapting what Western technology and culture had to offer.
The latter part of the ...
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9780195584714
The New Oxford History of New Zealand (3rd Edition 2009)
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NZ$ 99.99 each
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Author:
Giselle Byrnes (editor)
Published by:
OUP Australia and New Zealand
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The most up-to-date multi-authored revisionist history of Aotearoa New Zealand. This book tests the idea that New Zealand history can be explained as a quest for 'national identity' and considers whether narratives that rely on the 'colony-to-nation' storyline are still relevant today. Featuring previously unpublished research, this book proposes that history and identity have been shaped by culture, community, class, region and gender, and that these have been (and remain) more important than ideas of evolving nationhood.
672 pages
First published September 2009
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9781877514036
First to Care
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NZ$ 60.00 each
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Author:
Graeme Hunt
Published by:
Libro International
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St John is integral to New Zealand society, touching many lives with its ambulance service, and drawing on the admirable spirit of thousands of Kiwi volunteers.
Graeme Hunt details a fascinating history from St John's origins in the Crusades, to its 1885 founding in New Zealand (in Christchurch), to the subsequent ups and downs, developments and challenges, of the modern organisation. Illustrated with more than 250 photos, memorabilia and other images, this 'warts and all' history traverses every region of New Zealand, with extensive appendices including St John's roll of honour.
DoP October 2009, Auckland
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9781877372674
Passageways : The story of a New Zealand family
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NZ$ 45.00 each
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Author:
Ann Thwaite
Published by:
University of Otago Press
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The author’s eight great grandparents all arrived in New Zealand between 1858 and 1868. Their family names were Harrop, Sales, Campbell, Brown, Valentine, Maxwell, Jefcoate and Oliver. She looks at their reasons for migration, how they fared once settled, and at their participation in gold-digging, farming, road-making, school-teaching and surveying. Both of her parents were graduates of Canterbury University and A.J. Harrop was a respected New Zealand historian.
Ann explains how she and her brother David came to be born in England and how early in World War II they were taken to their New Zealand relations for safety, returning to the UK five years later with a deep love for the country where David later became a farmer. This is an engaging portrait of a brilliant and unconventional New Zealand-British family.
First published April 2009.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780958349086
Phil O'Shea : Wizard on Wheels
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NZ$ 20.00 each
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Author:
Phil O'Shea
Published by:
The Kennett Bros
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9780958298803
A Journey in Search of Ancestors: The English Cotswolds to Wairarapa New Zealand
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Author:
Christopher Pope
Published by:
Fraser Books
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A dinner party conversation began Englishman Christopher Pope on a serious search for his ancestors. He began with the Cave family, relatives of his mother, largely because they were known to come from Nympsfield in the Cotswolds, an easy distance from his Plymouth home.
A Cave family puzzle led to the discovery of a New Zealand connection, which Christopher Pope and his wife Kathy explored on several visits to the other end of the world. In the Wairarapa, north of Wellington, New Zealand's capital, they discovered Augustus William Cave, an early and prominent settler with widespread farming, horse racing and community involvements.
Most intriguing about Augustus Cave, Christopher Pope's great grandfather, was his close connection with Masterton Maori and their Te Ore Ore marae. Over 100 years ago Te Ore Ore Maori presented Augustus Cave with a rare flaxen waistcoat; in 2008 Christopher Pope had the great honour of ...
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9781877333996
Always the Sound of the Sea : New Zealand Lighthouse Keepers' Lives
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Author:
Helen Beaglehole
Published by:
Craig Potton Publishing
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Lighthouses have a mystique, a romance, and an almost biblical significance about them. Elegant structures located on remote and exposed sites where the land is challenged by the sea, they beam light into the darkness and transform uncertainty into knowledge and safety. They are the subject of legends and yarns, shanties and poems, written and oral history around the world. New Zealand's lighthouses - their location, design, construction, operation and demanning - have been well documented in Helen Beaglehole's comprehensive history, Lighting the Coast. But the lives and work of the men and women behind the lights over the last 150 years deserves closer study. Why did they choose the life? What did the job entail from day to day and year to year? How did it change? How did they feel about their work? What were their fears, frustrations and rewards? In Always the Sound of the Sea, Helen Beaglehole again challenges the myths and the ...
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9781877333217
Angelina : From Stromboli to D'Urville Island
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Author:
Gerard Hindmarsh
Published by:
Craig Potton Publishing
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In 1906, at just 16 years of age, Angelina Criscillo left the tiny volcanic island of Stromboli, off Sicily, to travel to an even remoter island on the other side of the world.
From the age of eight she had been betrothed to her cousin, Vincenzo Moleta, who was now twice her age and taking her to a new life on D'Urville Island in New Zealand.Facing the fierce tides and weather of this wild island on the edge of Cook Strait, and having to cope with loneliness, the incessant toil of a pioneer farm, and the bitterness of a developing family feud, Angelina found solace in an unlikely friendship with a high-born Maori woman, Wetekia Ruruku Elkington, who lived near by. Together they shared their own struggles, their different cultures and lack of English language; a process that awakened Angelina to her own inner strengths. Angelina and Vincenzo finally left D'Urville Island in 1946 and both died within a few months of each other in ...
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9780473094454
Behind the Dispensing Screen
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NZ$ 75.00 each
Published by:
Murray R Frost
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9781877448461
Field Punishment No. 1 : Archibald Baxter, Mark Briggs and New Zealand's Anti-militarist Tradition
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Author:
David Grant (illus Bob Kerr)
Published by:
Steele Roberts & Associates Ltd
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One of New Zealand's most extraordinary stories describes the courage of the conscientious objectors sent overseas during WW1 in a brutal attempt to force them to renounce their convictions and join the war effort. Despite torture and privation, Archie Baxter and Mark Briggs held out till the end, in one of the bravest displays of principle New Zealand has ever seen. They were this country's first successful dissenters, in defiance of a militaristic, neo-colonial government that feared non-conformity.
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9780143019633
Great Tales from NZ History
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NZ$ 29.99 each
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Author:
Gordon MacLachlan
Published by:
Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
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Who really did 'discover' New Zealand?
Why history has turned its back on the timid Abel Tasman
The burning of the sailing ship Boyd sets back European settlement by a decade
The enduring love affair between Eliza and Governor William Hobson
A surreal battle at Gate Pa in the Land Wars
Who were the real villains at Parihaka?
The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming
No rowdiness, no horseplay, when women vote for the first time
The Dog Tax - the last Maori armed uprising
The Great White Fleet- the American Navy visits in 1908
A future prime minister is jailed for 'agitating' in 1916
Kiwi lads die in the 'deep grey mud' at Passchendaele in 1917
The six o'clock swill down the pub and its 'disgusting culture'
The extraordinary feats of Jean Batten
John A Lee is fired from the Labour Party in 1940
Dozens die in a massacre at a prisoner of war camp for Japanese in the Wairarapa
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9781869419134
Historic Houses - a visitors' guide to early New Zealand houses
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45.00 each
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Author:
Linda Burgess (photography Robert Burgess)
Published by:
Random House New Zealand Ltd
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A look at some of New Zealand's historic houses - in words and in pictures. An eclectic mix, these houses, generally from the 19th century, and ranging from one-roomed cobs to country mansions, have been chosen because of their significance: they are 'a first', have been built by an architect of significance, have been lived in by notable New Zealanders. Most are open to visitors and they all have charm. A novelist, the author is interested in the houses' stories and has personally visited them all. The 60 houses are organised regionally: Northland/Auckland, Waikato/Bay of Plenty, Taranaki/Wanganui/Rangitikei, Gisborne/Hawkes Bay/Wairarapa, Wellington, Nelson/Marlborough, Canterbury and Otago. Linda is interested in the houses' stories and each piece is lively and accessible, giving fascinating background history. Robert Burgess, partner of the author and ex-All Black, has photographed the houses inside and out and created a great ...
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9781877242168
Illustrated History of the Treaty of Waitangi
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NZ$ 39.99 each
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Author:
Claudia Orange
Published by:
Bridget Williams Books
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Few subjects in recent years have created as much debate as the Treaty of Waitangi. Its history is a fascinating one, that embraces not only events of 1840 but also forces leading to the making of a treaty and the impacts, protests, and negotiations that followed for the next century and a half.
Claudia Orange offers here a straightforward account of a complex narrative. A wide range of illustrations brings the history to life: the different kinds of people who negotiated and signed the Treaty are vividly presented, the many periods of our past are portrayed; the context of this important document comes to life throughout the book.Perhaps the most significant feature of this book is the remarkable summary of the events of the 1980s and 1990s. In these years, the Waitangi Tribunal and iwi undertook massive research, to establish the validity of land claims; major settlements were made, and more claims are close to settlement.
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9781877257438
Lighting the Coast : A history of New Zealand's coastal lighthouse system
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NZ$ 55.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Helen Beaglehole
Published by:
Canterbury University Press
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1
Lighting The Coast
is the first comprehensive history of New Zealand’s system of ‘well-placed and effective’ lighthouses that were essential for ‘the great maritime future’ the country’s government envisaged. This authoritative and highly readable book reveals the fascinating story of the siting, design, construction, operation and eventual demanning of those nineteenth and early twentieth century monuments of engineering. It reveals much of the lives of the lighthouse keepers - practical, independent men who took their families to live in remote parts of New Zealand - and raises critical questions about the future of these historic structures.
Lighting The Coast
features more than 250 black and white and colour illustrations, including photographs, diagrams, maps and charts.
First published November 2006.
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9780143007043
Making Peoples : A history of the New Zealanders - from Polynesian settlement
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
James Belich
Published by:
Penguin Books Ltd
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A new paperback reprint of this best-selling and ground-breaking history. When first published in 1996 Making Peoples was hailed as redefining New Zealand history. It was undoubtedly the most important work of New Zealand history since Keith Sinclair's classic A History of New Zealand.
Making Peoples covers the period from first settlement to the end of the nineteenth century. Part one covers Polynesian background, Maori settlement and pre-contact history. Part two looks at Maori-European relations to 1900. Part three discusses Pakeha colonisation and settlement.
James Belich's Making Peoples is a major work which reshapes our understanding of New Zealand history, challenges traditional views and debunks many myths, while also recognising the value of myths as historical forces. Many of its assertions are new and controversial.
First published November 1996.
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9780958264556
Mr & Mrs U** : the story of a high country marriage in early Canterbury
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author:
Audrey Adams
Published by:
Fraser Books
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1
REPRINTED 2009
Through their letters to his native Shropshire in England between 1865 and 1902 Everard Upton and his wife, Eunice Adams, speak to us of the tribulations, but also of the pleasures, of life on remote country sheep stations in the early years of the European settlement of Canterbury. These letters vividly describe what it was like to live, work and raise children in the high country of Canterbury during the early years of settlement. They also tell the history of a marriage that had an ignominious end.
Mr & Mrs U** is a virtual 'who's who' of Canterbury and with its detailed information and many illustrations, will appeal to family and social historians.
300 pages
240 x 170mm
First published September 2007.
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9780854671304
New Zealand Time Line
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NZ$ 11.99 each
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Author:
Murdoch Riley
Published by:
Viking Sevenseas NZ
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1
DoP October 2008 Wellington
"From Kupe to the present day. History in a nutshell, with text, 114 drawings, paintings and photos."
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9780473135225
Ngati Dread - Vol 1 Footsteps of Fire
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NZ$ 36.99 each
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Author:
Gillies Angus
Published by:
Rogue Monster Books
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1
Dop 2008
softcover
Between 1985 to 1990, Ruatoria, a town on the East Coast of the North Island, was terrorised by a religious sect calling itself the Rastafarians.Their story is one of the most bizarre chapters in modern New Zealand history.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781877448690
No Job Too Big: A History of Fletcher Construction (Vol. I 1909-1940)
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NZ$ 44.99 each
Hardback
Author:
Jack (John Goodwin) Smith
Published by:
Steele Roberts & Associates
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1
DoP August 2009, Auckland
260x210mm / 342pp
Hardcover
The first of three volumes on an outstanding New Zealand company, this book covers the period 1909-40 and focuses on the work for which Fletcher Construction Co. Ltd, with its tower cranes constructing buildings and its bulldozers on civil engineering projects all around the country, is widely known and recognised.
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