Changing Times - New Zealand Since 1945 by Jenny Carlyon; Diana Morrow
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: Very Good
From the "golden weather" of postwar economic growth, through the globalization, economic challenges, and protest of the 1960s and 1970s, to the free market revolution and new immigrants of the 1980s and 1990s and beyond, this account, the most complete and comprehensive history of New Zealand since 194 ...Show more
Frontiers: A Colonial Dynasty by Simon Best
54.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Two airmen of Māori descent lie buried together on a hilltop in Dorset, England. They are the grandson and great-grandson of a whaling captain who entered New Zealand waters in 1835, and who became one of the leading pioneers of European settlement in Wellington. The story’s main thread covers the four ...Show more
The Enderby Settlement: Britain's Whaling Venture on the Sub Antarctic Auckland Islands by Conon Fraser
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
This book is a history of the British Enderby settlement on the Auckland Islands 1849-52 and its associated whaling venture. Isolation, a stormswept climate, unproductive soil, inexperienced crews, drunkenness and above all an unexpected shortage of whales meant the raw colony ran into trouble and the p ...Show more
Making a New Land - Environmental Histories of New Zealand by Eric Pawson; Tom Brooking
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Making a New Land (New Edition) presents an interdisciplinary perspective on one of the most rapid and extensive transformations in human history: that which followed Maori and then European colonisation of New Zealand's temperate islands. This is a new edition of Environmental Histories of New Zealand, ...Show more
Working Lives, 1900s: A Photographic Essay by Eric Olssen
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
For the men and women of the skilled trades in the early 20th century, the skills and knowledge of their respective crafts were a source of identity and pride. Together with the so-called unskilled, who built the infrastructure for the new society, these workers laid the cultural and social foundations ...Show more
Peace, Power & Politics: How New Zealand Became Nuclear Free by Maire Leadbeater
55.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: Near Fine
This is a story of how ordinary people created a movement that changed New Zealand's foreign policy and our identity as a nation. The story of peace activism from our pre-recorded history to 1975 was told in Peace People: A history of peace activities in New Zealand (1992) by Elsie Locke. In this new bo ...Show more
Protest in New Zealand by Brent Coutts & Nicholas Fitness
66.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
Throughout New Zealand’s history, individuals and groups have been impelled to seek change and achieve social justice through the medium of protest. Protest in New Zealand provides an in-depth look at protest movements during the 20th century, focusing on their causes and effects, and the events and peo ...Show more
Encounters: The Creation of New Zealand by Paul Moon
55.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
'Throughout its human history, New Zealand has been interpreted and experienced in often radically different ways. Each wave of arrivals to its shores has left its own set of views of New Zealand on the country – applying a new coat of mythology and understanding to the landscape, usually without fully ...Show more
Wanted, a Beautiful Barmaid : Women behind the bar in New Zealand, 1830-1976 by Susan Upton
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: Very Good
Wanted, A Beautiful Barmaid explores a side of New Zealand pub histories that has remained largely invisible: the women who poured the drinks. Women in the New Zealand liquor trade have been the subject of scrutiny and condemnation since the first grog shops sold rum to sailors in the 1830s. Barmaid ...Show more
Waiheathens: Voices From a Mining Town by Mark Derby
57.50 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: 1st
Waiheathens has been produced to coincide with the centenary of the 1912 miner's strike which turned Waihi into a battleground and resulted in the violent death of one striker. The book includes colour reproductions of the exhibition of paintings titled “Gold Strike”, by Wellington artist Bob Kerr, whic ...Show more
The Clipper Ship Sebastopol: New Zealand Immigration Ship 1861-1863 by Belinda Lansley
31.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: Ancestral Journeys of New Zealand Series
The Sebastopol was a fine clipper ship that made two voyages from London, England to Lyttelton, New Zealand loaded with immigrants for the Provincial Government. From voyages of cargo and Chinese passengers, to the suicide of a ships surgeon, the Sebastopol has an interesting past. Extensive research ha ...Show more