What Happened to Haystacks and Horses? by Garrick Batten
38.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
New Zealand agriculture has seen huge changes in the period from the end of WWII to the 2000 Millenium. Mechanisation, new products, new plants and animals, and changing financial fortunes. Technical and management changes on farms and political and economic influences off it. Horses were replaced by tr ...Show more
Family Business by VINCENT MOLETA
39.99 NZD
45.00 (11% off)
Category: NZ History
Bartolo Barnao first sailed into Wellington in 1902, aged 13, and began work in the fish trade. Eight years later he revisited Stromboli to marry the bride who had been chosen for him by the parish priest in his village. Bartolo and Giuseppa returned to New Zealand and raised their five children in Palm ...Show more
Far from 'Home': The English in New Zealand by Lyndon Fraser and Angela McCarthy (editors)
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: Near Fine
For almost 200 years, the English have been one of the largest migrant streams to New Zealand, yet relatively little has been written about their experiences here. This book brings together leading international and local researchers to explore a wide range of topics and issues at the heart of research ...Show more
The Saltwater Highways - The Story of Ports and Shipping in New Zealand by Gordon McLauchlan
44.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: new
New Zealand, a country ‘rinsed by the sea’, has a shipping story to tell as long and convoluted as its coastline. Thoroughly researched, with an eye for a good yarn but also with an acute sense of the shifting social and political changes over the years, McLauchlan tells an informative and engaging tale ...Show more
Born to a Changing World: Childbirth in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand by Alison Clarke
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
Emerging from diaries, letters and memoirs, the voices of this remarkable book tell a new story of life arriving amidst a turbulent world. Before the Plunket Society, before antibiotics, before ‘safe’ Caesarean sections and registered midwives, nineteenth century birthing practice in New Zealand was ty ...Show more
Poenamo Revisited - A facsimile of the 1998 edition of Poenamo with essay and notes by R C J Stone by John Logan Campbell; Russell Stone
39.99 NZD
45.00 (11% off)
Category: NZ History
Imagine you are 23 years old, newly arrived in a country on the other side of the world where there are only a handful of other white men to keep you company. Imagine that you are fearless, bursting with energy and entrepreneurial resolve. Imagine that you are also well educated, a shrewd observer and a ...Show more
Tuhituhi - William Hodges, Cook's Painter in the South Pacific by Laurence Simmons
60.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
This study of the art of William Hodges opens fresh theoretical perspectives on the representational problems raised by these early paintings produced in the South Pacific. Following Pacific Island historians of the 1960s, it argues that it is possible to read the texts and visual material produced f ...Show more
Beyond Today: A Values Story by Claire Browning
28.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
Beyond Today: a values story is a think piece about the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand, and green politics, policy and principles. It rewrites the Green's story. Green poitics is a whole new idea. It is harder to understand than it should be; it is not even clear that all the party's own members a ...Show more
Piano Forte: Stories and Soundscapes from Colonial New Zealand by Kirstine Moffat
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
The phrase 'colonial New Zealand piano' immediately and inevitably conjures up the image of the grand piano on a deserted beach that is the leitmotif of Jane Campion's 1993 film The Piano: both a powerful symbol of the incongruity of the piano in this context, its status as 'alien' intruder, and a movin ...Show more
Convicts: New Zealand's Hidden Past by Matthew Wright
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
New Zealand's Pakeha origin as a bolt-hole for convicts escaping Australia, a place where former convicts joined whaling and sealing gangs, and where sea captains thumbed their noses at the law, has been quietly forgotten. It has become a hidden part of our past, buried under the convenient fiction that ...Show more
An Indescribable Beauty - Letters Home to Germany from Wellington, New Zealand, 1859 &1862 by Friedrich Krull
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
This unique book is a small but priceless addition to the historical record of early New Zealand, published to recognise New Zealand's guest of honour status at Frankfurt Book Fair 2012. On January 27, 1859, an adventurous young German arrived in Wellington after a four-month voyage on a Swedish ship. W ...Show more
The Making of New Zealanders by Ron Palenski
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Examining the development of a sense of national identity in a British colony, this highly authoritative work is a valuable addition to the literature in New Zealand. By looking at the onset of home-grown shipping, railway, and telegraph networks as well as at the Maori and kiwi experiences, not to ment ...Show more