Farmers - Your Store for 100 years by Ian Hunter
93.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Second hand. Started in 1909, Farmers has become New Zealand's best-loved and largest chain of fashion department stores. Originally a mail-order business, Farmers soon spread with stores throughout the country. Leading the way in retail innovations, Farmers was more than just a retail business. Farmer ...Show more
Historic Houses: A Visitor's Guide to Early New Zealand by Linda Burgess
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: Very Good
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 signifi ...Show more
The Settler's Plot - How Stories Take Place in New Zealand by Alex Calder
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
The Settler's Plot is a fresh and engaging study of the relationship between literature and place in New Zealand. Drawing on an engrossing selection of documentary and literary sources, Alex Calder explores the places our writers have turned to most often - the beach, the farm, the bush, the suburb and ...Show more
Dining Out - A history of the restaurant in New Zealand by Perrin Rowland
59.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: Very Good
From oyster bars and ordinaries to hotel dining rooms, from DunedinâÂÂs Savoy to K RoadâÂÂs Hi Diddle Griddle, from haute cuisine to Pacific flavours, from hogget to hapuka â Dining Out introduces us to the history of the New Zealand restaurant from the 1860s to the present. Drawing on menus, ...Show more
Shear Hard Work : A History of Shearing in New Zealand by Hazel Riseborough
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Shear Hard Work tells the story of shearers and brings to life the world of the shearing shed for the first time. From the 1860s, when shearers were first identified as the 'very dregs of the colonial democracy', to the present day, when Kiwi shearers set world records and shear sheep around the globe, ...Show more
Zone of the Marvellous: In Search of the Antipodes by Martin Edmond
34.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: Very Good
In the tradition of Dava Sobel and Longitude, award-winning writer Martin Edmond uses his extraordinary intellectual breadth and imaginative reach to elegantly and lucidly execute his most ambitious project to date - the history of 4,000 years of the Western imagination and the Antipodes, Great Southern ...Show more
Heaphy: Artist, Explorer, Settler by Iain Sharp
69.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
Even by the versatile standards of Victorian pioneers, Charles Heaphy had an unusually varied career, as a draughtsman, explorer, surveyor, gold agent, geologist, soldier, war hero, politician, land commissioner and judge. Most importantly, however, for decades Heaphy painted and sketched what he saw. F ...Show more
A Voice for Mothers - The Plunket Society and Infant Welfare 1907-2000 by Linda Bryder
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
The Plunket Society, founded in 1907, is New Zealand's most successful and internationally famous voluntary organisation. This comprehensive history of Plunket covers three broad themes: the relationship between the voluntary sector and the State in the provision of welfare, the development of paediatri ...Show more
New Zealand cinema: interpreting the past by Alistair Fox
66.99 NZD
101.00 (33% off)
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: Very Good
New Zealand has produced one of the world's most vibrant film cultures, a reflection of the country's evolving history and the energy and resourcefulness of its people. From early silent features like "The Te Kooti Trail" to recent films such as "River Queen," this book examines the role of the cinema o ...Show more
New Zealand Then and Now by Jenny Haworth
19.99 NZD
29.99 (33% off)
Category: NZ History
A new edition of the Then and Now series.
Tangata Whenua: Framing the Frontier - The Treaty is Signed by Terri Kessell
35.75 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: Tangata Whenua Ser.
In Framing the Frontier - the third in the Tangata Whenua series, students will discover more about what life was like in 19th-century New Zealand.
Introduction to the History of New Zealand Education by Elizabeth Rata
45.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
Introduction to the History of New Zealand Education gives an overview of the New Zealand education system from the nineteenth century to the present. It shows that many educational issues of the past are still concerns today. The book is aimed at students of education, parents, and teachers, as well as ...Show more