The Oxford History of New Zealand by W. H. Oliver; B. R. Williams

$25.00 NZD

Category: History | Reading Level: very good

Ties of Blood and Empire - New Zealand's Involvement in Middle East Defence and the Suez Crisis 1947-57 by Malcolm Templeton

$25.00 NZD

Category: History | Reading Level: very good

This fascinating and detailed account of how New Zealand supported Britain in its ill-fated 1956 invasion of Egypt describes how the New Zealand government was deceived about the collusion between Britain, France, and Israel, and how it was torn between its ties with Briain, its alliance with the United States, and its adherence to the United Nations Charter. ...Show more

It Happened Today in New Zealand - A Day-By-Day Illustrated Chronology of Famous and Interesting Events in New Zealand History from 1640 to 1971 by A. W. Reed (Compiled by)

$12.00 NZD

Category: History | Reading Level: very good

Aotearoa and New Zealand: A Historical Geography by Alan H. Grey

$30.00 NZD

Category: History | Reading Level: very good

Frontier New Zealand: The Search for Eldorado 1800-1920 by Duncan MacKay

$25.00 NZD

Category: History | Reading Level: very good

Two Hundred Years of New Zealand History, 1769-1979 by A. W. Reed (Compiled by)

$25.00 NZD

Category: History | Reading Level: very good

New Zealand and the French - Two Centuries of Contact by John Dunmore (Editor)

$35.00 NZD

Category: History | Reading Level: very good

Public Lives: New Zealand's Premiers and Prime Ministers 1856-2003 by Ian F. Grant

$20.00 NZD

Category: History | Reading Level: very good

Public Lives is the first book to describe, compare and contrast the lives and careers of New Zealand's premiers and prime ministers. Thirty-five men and two women, their political perceptions as varied as their personalities, backgrounds, education, occupations, enthusiasms and views about New Zealand and the wider world, are profiled in bright and pithy chapters lavishly illustrated with cartoons and caricatures. The introduction pulls the historical strands together, assessing the most striking successes and failures in a job that has changed hugely in scope and complexity over the last 150 years. ...Show more

Colonial Tears and Sweat - The Working Class in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand by Julia Millen

$30.00 NZD

Category: History | Reading Level: very good

Histories, Power and Loss: Uses of the Past - a New Zealand Commentary by Andrew Sharp and Paul McHugh (eds)

$25.00 NZD

Category: History | Reading Level: very good

In the 1970s Maori confronted Pakeha with the losses they had suffered during colonisation, and with highly-contested claims, not only for reparation for past wrongs but for the restitution of their political power. At the heart of the contests has lain the Treaty of Waitangi. Called the 'foundati on document' of the political nation, it is written in two languages, makes different commitments in each version, and distributes authority in starkly, incompatible ways. There are, accordingly, various Maori and Pakeha histories designed to establish the meaning of the Treaty, and to give accounts of the adherence to or violation of its principles through time. To claim or deny past Maori losses and to picture a better possible future for the two peoples is very much the point of the writing of such histories but not their only point. Almost always they are written to question the current distribution of power: meant to show what the constitution should be; meant to argue for Pakeha, English-derived law or for Maori custom; meant to identify and claim sovereignty; meant as vivid demonstrations of how people are to know these things. Histories, Power and Loss is a book about what people do when they produce histories about the past. In particular, it is about what certain New Zealanders have done when they have recounted parts of their country's past. The contributors are lawyers, political philosophers, and historians. All are New Zealanders, though not all live here. They write of legal claims and constitutional doubt; they tell particular stories - of redemption and loss, of the political place of knowledge, of uncritical Pakeha biographies; they document some of the claims process, and debate its consequences. These are wide-ranging essays - philosophical, narrative, provocative and challenging. ...Show more

No Other Home Than This: A History of European New Zealanders by John Andrews

$35.00 NZD

Category: History | Reading Level: very good

When Europeans landed in New Zealand in the nineteenth century, they brought with them a culture that had been shaped over thousands of years - a culture that determined their values and attitudes, their food and dwellings, their occupations and recreation. In the crates and portmanteaus carried off the ships were the material trappings of that culture. While many excellent general histories begin with the arrival of Maori and Europeans in New Zealand, this epic and fascinating book goes back to the beginning to address some fundamental questions about European New Zealanders: Where did they come from? What sort of people were they? What does the heritage of Europe mean to New Zealanders? How did the Europeans become 'Pakeha' and gain a sense of place? Starting with the ancient journey of proto-Europeans from Africa to the Middle East some 160,000 years ago, No Other Home Than This then describes the development of Europe and the eventual expansion of settlement, through exploration and migration, to the farthest parts of the earth. He looks at the adaptations and changes made by Europeans after their arrival in New Zealand and how, in time, these remote islands became the only place they called home. ...Show more

Opium and Gold: A history of the Chinese goldminers in New Zealand by Peter Scott Butler

$35.00 NZD

Category: History | Reading Level: good