Victory at Gate Pa? The Battle of Pukehinahina 1894 by Mikaere, Buddy
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
Victory at Gate Pā? examines, in exquisite detail, the historical background to the battle, the battle itself and the subsequent Battle of Te Ranga. The aftermath that saw 50,000 acres of prime land confiscated and a people driven into poverty and despair. The 29 April 1864 Battle of Pukehinahina-Gate ...Show more
The Plough, The Chalice and the Sword by Hugh McBain
145.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
The Plough, the Chalice and the Sword tells stories of the Williams family from their arrival in Aotearoa New Zealand in 1823. It tells the story of the family's involvement with agriculture and horticulture - through all the changes that have taken place over 200 years. It tells the story of those who ...Show more
Te Ata o Tū: The Shadow of Tumatauenga by Matiu Baker, Katie Cooper, Michael Fitzgerald and Rebecca Rice (editors)
69.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
The New Zealand Wars of 1845-72 were a series of bitter and bloody conflicts between Maori and Pakeha that extended from Wairau to the Bay of Islands, and from Taranaki to the East Cape. They are as important to New Zealand as the civil wars were to England and to the United States. Land and sovereignty ...Show more
Kahurangi Stories - More Tales from Northwest Nelson by Gerard Hindmarsh
19.99 NZD
39.99 (50% off)
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
More fascinating untold stories from the backcountry of Northwest Nelson. Building on the success of Kahurangi Calling, this new volume of stories from the Northwest Nelson backcountry, is a compelling blend of natural and social history. An area of astonishing ecological complexity, the area has genera ...Show more
A Short History of New Zealand by Gordon McLauchlan
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: new
A new edition of the bestselling short history on New Zealand, updated to include the Helen Clark years, the rise of John Key, the Christchurch earthquakes and the 2011 Rugby World Cup! A lively and accessible history written by one of our most well-known commentators on matters past and present. Succin ...Show more
Nailed Boots and Crinoline Gowns: Women on the Rural Frontier in Nineteenth Century New Zealand by Robert Peden
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
Histories of Pakeha settlement in New Zealand have often ignored the role of women, or devalued their contribution to mere adjuncts to the work of men. In Nailed Boots and Crinoline Gowns historian Robert Peden argues that not only were women present from the very beginnings of settlement, they were als ...Show more
The Team That Hit the Rocks: The Inside Story of the Wahine Disaster by Peter Jerram
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
In April 1968 the New Zealand interisland passenger ferry Wahine, a fast and modern ship for its time, hit Barrett Reef at the entrance to Wellington Harbour in a cyclone, the worst storm ever recorded in New Zealand's history. Six and a half hours later the ship heeled over and sank, with the eventual ...Show more
Those Who Have the Courage - The History of the Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps by Matthew Wright
94.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
'Those Who Have the Courage will be a valuable resource for anyone who is interested in the military and social history of New Zealand. It is a comprehensive history of the Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps, the Mounted Rifles and predecessor units ¿' - Governor-General Dame Cindy Kiro, from the Foreword ...Show more
Knowledge is a Blessing on Your Mind: Selected Writings, 1980-2020 by Anne Salmond
64.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
For fifty years, Dame Anne Salmond has navigated 'te ao hurihuri' - travelling to hui in her little blue VW Beetle with Eruera and Amiria Stirling in the 1970s, working for a university marae alongside Merimeri Penfold, Patu Hohepa and Wharetoroa Kerr in the 1980s, giving evidence to the Waitangi Tribun ...Show more
Ki Mua, Ki Muri: 25 years of Toioho ki Apiti by Cassandra Barnett, Kura Te Waru-Rewiri
69.99 NZD
Category: Cultural History
This richly illustrated publication examines the last 25 years of the influential Toioho ki Apiti programme at Massey University, its global indigenous pedagogical reach, and its ongoing impacts on national and international contemporary art and cultural sectors. Toioho ki Apiti's transformative and kau ...Show more
Where the Flaming Hell Are We?: The story of young Australians and New Zealanders fighting the Nazis in Greece and Crete by Craig Collie
37.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
The gripping story of Australia and New Zealand in the fight for the Aegean - through the eyes of the soldiers. 'We used our knees and our rifle butts and our blades. For a while we stopped being ordinary blokes and became blood-lusted creatures.' March, 1941: 40,000 Australian and New Zealand troops a ...Show more
Privilege in Perpetuity - Exploding a Pākehā Myth (BWB Texts) by Peter Meihana
17.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
'The idea of Maori privilege continues to be deployed in order to constrain Maori aspirations and maintain the power imbalance that colonisation achieved in the nineteenth century.' The 'idea of Maori privilege', as Peter Meihana describes it, is deeply embedded in New Zealand culture. Many New Zealande ...Show more