Mungo Park's Trunk : A journey - Scotland to New Zealand
48.50 NZD
49.00 (1% off)
Category: NZ History
The surveyor Robert Park arrived in New Zealand in 1839. He became a notable figure in New Zealand's public life and has an important place in the history of surveying in New Zealand and a place in the history of New Zealand art. He also fathered three families. In Mungo Park's Trunk, Nola Easdale teas ...Show more
The Treaty and its Times - The Illustrated History by Paul Moon & Peter Biggs
49.95 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
The authors have succinctly captured the many multi-layered threads that make up the tumultuous events in early New Zealand. Starting around 1800, the book moves to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 and finishes with the Northland Wars of 1845. The book tells about the early missionaries, th ...Show more
The Duel on the Creek and Other Tales of Victorian New Zealand by Hargreaves, Ray
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
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The spirit of the past: essays on christianity in New Zealand history by Geoff Troughton
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Has religion shaped, or been shaped by, New Zealand culture and society? How much and in what ways? Questions like these have generated lively debate in recent years, not least among historians. This important collection of essays offers fresh insights into those debates, and makes available new rese ...Show more
The Visitation: Earthquakes of 1848 and the Destruction of Wellington by Rodney Grapes
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
‘It is my most painful duty to inform your Excellency that a terrible calamity has overtaken this province. An earthquake has occurred, and the town of Wellington is in ruins.’ Lieutenant Governor John Eyre to Sir George Grey, 19 October 1848 Wellington was only a fledgling settlement of some 3000 p ...Show more
Honouring the Contract by John E. Martin
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Honouring the Contract provides a novel perspective on the distinctive foundations of New Zealand's welfare state. It raises issues concerning modern-day concepts of citizenship as the welfare state comes under challenge.
New Zealand as it Might Have Been II by Stephen I. Levine
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
In 2006 NEW ZEALAND AS IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN introduced a new way of looking at New Zealand's national experience - its history, society and politics, even its rugby - as 15 authors considered what could have been rather than simply what was. Now this new book offers a further 17 portraits of 'New Zealand ...Show more
New Zealand Time Line by Murdoch Riley
11.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
DoP October 2008 Wellington "From Kupe to the present day. History in a nutshell, with text, 114 drawings, paintings and photos."
Hokianga by Jack Lee
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
In this first full length history of the Hokianga, Jack Lee, through the major use of preserved oral records, has created a fascinating insight into the early Polynesian and early European involvement in this little-documented part of New Zealand.
Beyond the Battlefield : New Zealand and Its Allies 1939-1945 by Gerald Hensley
65.00 NZD
67.00 (2% off)
Category: NZ History
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.
Petticoat Pioneers: North Island Women of the Colonial Era - Book One by Miriam Macgregor
39.99 NZD
65.00 (38% off)
Category: NZ History
Secondhand. First published in 1973. ook one of Miriam Macgregor's 'Petticoat Pioneer" series of three volumes It deals with early women pioneers in alphabetical order, beginning with the Mother Mary Joseph Aubert, a French nun who came to NZ in 1860 and devoted her life to the care and education of th ...Show more