Turning Points: Events That Changed the Course of New Zealand History by Paul Moon
14.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
What constitutes a turning point? In his new book, leading historian Paul Moon has chosen 20 pivotal events that have shaped the course of New Zealand history over the years. Each event is described as a discrete story and illustrated with photographs drawn from the archives, and Moon outlines how New Z ...Show more
Migrations: Journeys in time and space by Rod Edmond
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: good
In Migrations Rod Edmond traces the journeys of his Scottish forebears as they separately made their way to New Zealand. The migration story begins with Charles Murray leaving Aberdeenshire in 1884 to become a missionary on the island of Ambrym. On the other side of Scotland, Catherine McLeod and her fa ...Show more
Home in the Howling Wilderness - Settlers and the Environment in Southern New Zealand by Peter Holland
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Second hand. A major new account of Pākehā and the land in New Zealand. During the nineteenth century European settlers transformed the environment of New Zealand’s South Island. They diverted streams and drained marshes, burned native vegetation and planted hedges and grasses, stocked farms with sheep ...Show more
Big world, small country : the 20th century and New Zealand's place in it by Graeme Ball
64.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
This new textbook for senior History takes a comprehensive look at the key political, military, social and economic events and developments of the 20th century, both beyond and inside New Zealand. It examines the impact on New Zealand as a whole, as well as New Zealanders’ roles and responses. The textb ...Show more
Great Kiwi Firsts by Astral Sligo
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
Our fern might be silver but us Kiwis love to take that gold medal spot. First to give women the vote, first to climb Mount Everest, first to split the atom ... Despite our small population and our distance from the great centres of commerce and culture, Kiwis are bloody good at being first at things. T ...Show more
Women’s business : the story of the New Zealand College of Midwives 1986 to 2010 by Karen Guilliland
136.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
We wrote the book because we felt it was important to document what has happened in midwifery in New Zealand in the last 20 years; to record the people and history that have contributed to this remarkable, world leading midwifery system for women." Sally Pairman "So many of the events that led to the es ...Show more
Webs of Empire - Locating New Zealand's Colonial Past by Tony Ballantyne
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Breaking open colonisation to reveal tangled cultural and economic networks, Webs of Empire offers new paths into our colonial history. Linking Gore and Chicago, Maori and Asia, India and newspapers, whalers and writing; empire building becomes a spreading web of connected places, people, ideas and trad ...Show more
Frontier: The battle for the North Island of New Zealand 1860 to 1872 by Peter Maxwell
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
The truth about the New Zealand wars is that neither Maori nor pakeha won them..in the latter phases both races fought side by side against those who continued to resist - to establish a lasting truce...
Goldfields of Otago: An Illustrated History 3rd Edition With Supplement by John Hall-Jones
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
In 1861 Gabriel Read discovered rich gold in Gabriels Gully triggering off the great gold rush to Otago. One year later Hartley and Reilly panned 87 pounds of gold from the Dunstan Gorge of the Clutha River and a second great rush of miners swept into the province. As eager prospectors pushed their way ...Show more
Historic Treasures of the South by John Hall-Jones
39.90 NZD
Category: NZ History
Hall-Jones writes of the arrivals of the early Maori and later the Europeans, the navigators, sealers and whalers, in the southern part of New Zealand. In doing so he takes us to the places where they first made landfall and shows us the visible evidence that survives there today including: • Dusky Soun ...Show more
Waterfront: an Insight into the Unique World of the Wharfie by Maurice Skerrett
15.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
A Capital Story by Jeanette Richardson
45.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
This is a major work that gives an account of the first capital of New Zealand which was at Okiato in the Bay of Islands. This is a little told part of New Zealand history. As a taster, the first paragraphs say... The Dream The sun breaks through the cloud on an overcast day, sending shafts o ...Show more