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
Treaty to Treaty : a history of early New Zealand from the Treaty of Tordesillas 1494 to the Treaty of Waitangi 1840 volume 2 1494-1799 _ Western powers reach out to the East and Pacific Ocean by R S Bennett
192.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Volume 2, of 358 A-4 pages published in 2011, covers in chronological form the entry of European powers from prior to 1500 into the Americas, eastern Asia and the Pacific Ocean, which culminated in the British colonization of Australia and New Zealand. Australia has a greater coverage than New Zealand. ...Show more
Feeling for Daylight:the photographs of Jack Adamson by Rhain Gallagher
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
Crombie To Burton - Early New Zealand Photography by Michael Graham-Stewart
28.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: new
Crombie To Burton Early New Zealand Photography is a catalogue publication that beautifully illustrates the work of photographers in nineteenth century New Zealand. Researched and written by Michael Graham-Stewart and John Gow, this publication documents in imagery the colonial period of New Zealand's p ...Show more
From the Other End Of The World by R. K. Dean
39.95 NZD
Category: NZ History
From the Other End of the World brings together experiences of immigrants to New Zealand from the UK who left the austerity of war conditions for a new life ? or for what was intended to be a two year ?OE?. All but one sailed between 1946 and 1956; the other sailed in 1965. The experiences range from ro ...Show more
An identity for New Zealand? by John Collinge
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
Early British settlement of new Zealand, and particulary systematic settlement, is seen through the eyes of ordinary people who came at the outset in the context of the circumstances and forces in Britain which shaped their emigration, their contibutions upon arrival and whether their legacies and chara ...Show more