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New Zealand Time Line
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NZ$ 12.00 each
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Author:
Murdoch Riley
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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The Edges of Empires: New Zealand In The Middle Of The Nineteenth Century
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author:
Paul Moon
Well known historian Paul Moon provides a 'captivating and intimate account of New Zealand in the 1950s.' He shines a 'powerful light' on this previously 'obscured decade' and in doing so, has illuminated one of the most significant periods in the country's history, with an eye for colourful detail and often wry observations of the personalities and events of the time.
First published April 2009.
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The Penguin History of New Zealand
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Michael King
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.
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Weeping Waters : The Treaty of Waitangi and Constitutional Change
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NZ$ 55.00 each
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Malcolm Mulholland] (ed)
Weeping Waters is a must read for anyone who wants to be informed about the current debate regarding the Treaty of Waitangi and a constitution for Aotearoa New Zealand. The book features essays from eighteen well-known and respected Maori figures including Professor Margaret Mutu, Bishop Muru Walters, Judge Caren Fox and lawyer Moana Jackson. This is the first book in recent years to offer a Maori opinion on the subject of constitutional change. It shows how Maori views have been ignored by successive governments and the courts and how Maori have attempted to address constitutional issues in the past. The book also provides suggestions for a pathway forward if the Treaty of Waitangi is to be fully acknowledged as the foundation for a constitution for Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Always the Sound of the Sea : New Zealand Lighthouse Keepers' Lives
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Helen Beaglehole
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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A Short History of New Zealand, A (revised edition 2009)
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author:
Gordon McLauchlan
This highly regarded book has been in print since 2004 and has proved popular with tourists, students and ordinary New Zealanders as a lively and reliable short history of New Zealand. It has proved a handy and succinct alternative to bigger books such as Michael King's The Penguin History of New Zealand. The timeline at the end of the book has proved particularly popular. Gordon McLauchlan has been assiduously reading New Zealand history, biography and fiction for more than fifty years. He knows New Zealand as intimately and affectionately as anyone alive and has set out in this updated edition of A Short History of New Zealand to provide for the general reader an historical narrative that is personal and colourful, and stamped with the authority of a lifetime of deep interest. This revised edition includes events since the turn of the twenty-first century, including the results of the 2008 General Election.
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Awesome Aotearoa : Margaret Mahy's History of New Zealand
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Margaret Mahy Illustrated by Trace Hodgson)
"New Zealand is an adventurous country...we have forests and rocky beaches. We have earthquakes and volcanoes, and pools of boiling mud and we also have the All Blacks. Earthquakes, boiling mud and rugby players! Who could wish for more?" With one of the world's most successful children's authors joining forces with an award-winning cartoonist, our history has never been more compelling, more engaging or more smirk-inducing. A fact-filled and delightful look at our country. Whoever said our history was boring?
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Best of Both Worlds : The: Story of Elsdon Best and Tutakangahau
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
In 1895 a meeting took place in the rugged Urewera ranges - Tuhoe country - that would have lasting effects on our views of traditional Maori society. Elsden Best, a self-taught anthropologist and quartermaster on the road past Lake Waikaremoana, was sought out by a leading Tuhoe chief, Tutakangahau of Maungapohatu. The stories he gave to Best to be recorded for future generations are with us today. Best went on to become a noted Pakeha authority on a people he would style as the last of 'the oldtime Maori'. How much did the old man tell him? Was it freely given? Can Best's writings - so pervasive today in our understanding of Maori culture - be truly relied upon? In his unique examination of this historically significant relationship, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman poses such searching questions, further informing a vital national debate on the shared identity - and destiny - of Maori and Pakeha.
First published March 2010.
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Beyond the Battlefield : New Zealand and Its Allies 1939-1945
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NZ$ 65.00 each
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Author:
Gerald Hensley
Beyond the Battlefield by Gerald Hensley is the dramatic unknown story of New Zealand's involvement in World War II told for the first time here in an accessible, popular and enjoyable read. Savage, Nash, Fraser, Freyberg, Churchill, Roosevelt, Menzies, all great names from New Zealand and world history during the Second World War and all involved in the story of New Zealand's response to the global conflict and therefore the destiny of our nation.
DoP September 2008, Auckland
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Big Ideas : 100 Wonders Of New Zealand Engineering
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NZ$ 45.00 each
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Author:
Matthew Wright
Roads, bridges, dams, railway viaducts, tunnels . . . New Zealand is full of amazing feats of engineering. Our number-eight wire mentality has brought about some incredible engineering solutions to create structures and
systems to wonder at, from the Manapouri underground power station to Burt Munro's famous Indian motorcycle. Who designed these amazing things? How were they built? What innovative solutions did their engineers use to overcome problems of terrain, weather, materials and cost? From early Maori and European settlement through the boom days of the late 1900s into the Depression-era projects of the early twentieth century and on to the Think Big years. The book features 100 projects from around the country with informative text, fact boxes and historic photographs. This is a great book to dip into or read from cover to cover, showing the development of New Zealand's fascinating engineering heritage.
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