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Class Gender and the Vote: Historical Perspectives from New Zealand by Miles Fairburn
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: Otago History Series
Perspectives from New Zealand History With the rise of the study of social history in the second half of the twentieth century, the focus of many historians shifted from politics, high culture and foreign policy to new areas, including health, demographics, families, crime, women and immigration. Bu ...Show more
Class and Occupation : The New Zealand Reality by Erik Olssen (Professor of History, University of Otago, New Zealand) and Maureen Hickey
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: Otago History Series
Class and Occupation is the first systematic attempt to identify New Zealand's actual occupational structure from 1893 to 1938, using the information gathered by the New Zealand census. The six essays are based on the work of Caversham Project at the University of Otago and cosider how best to code occu ...Show more
Landscape/Community - Perspectives from New Zealand by Tony Ballantyne; Judith A Bennett
39.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: Otago History Series | Reading Level: good-very good
New Zealanders have a strong affinity with the land, with firm connections being drawn between the land and cultural identity in the economy, poliitics and art. As 'Tangata Whenua', Maori stress the significance of their relationship with the land. The essays in this book explore these complex relation ...Show more
Rats and Revolutionaries - The Labour Movement in Australia and New Zealand 1890-1940 by James Bennett
39.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: Otago History Series | Reading Level: very good
Looks at the emerging labour movement in the two countries 1890 to 1940 when it formed almost a 'trans-Tasman world of labour', with individuals entering each other's realm through strikes, compulsorary arbitration, industrial organisation, conscription and the Depression.
Tackling Rugby Myths: Rugby and New Zealand Society, 1854-2004 by Greg Ryan
39.95 NZD
Category: Sport | Series: Otago History Series
This book examines many aspects of rugby in New Zealand since about 1854, showing how rugby and identity have been bundles together for over a century, with both nation and game endowed with qualities of egalitarianism, innovation and rural pragmatism that have beeen promoted on the world stage. It tac ...Show more
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