Empire and the Making of Native Title: Sovereignty, Property and Indigenous People by Bain Attwood
85.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
This book provides a new approach to the historical treatment of indigenous peoples' sovereignty and property rights in Australia and New Zealand. By shifting attention from the original European claims of possession to a comparison of the ways in which British players treated these matters later, Bain ...Show more
Before Maori: New Zealand's First Inhabitants - A Perspective by Bodle, Ross M.
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Kiwi Farmers' Guide To Life: Rural Tales from the Heartland by Tim Fulton
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
Stories of New Zealand farmers and their families, tracing the ancestral journeys that brought them to their particular piece of rural Kiwi paradise. Profiles some of the country’s most innovative farmers; their motivations, frustrations and legacies; the camaraderie amongst their local communities. Sto ...Show more
Time to Make a Song and Dance - Cultural revolt in Auckland in the 1960s by Murray Edmond
38.00 NZD
Category: Cultural History | Reading Level: very good
The 1960s was a period of radical conflict, when the desire for a new, socially defiant freedom affected every aspect of NZ culture: theatre, the visual arts, Maori activism, rock 'n roll, literature, feminism, NZ film, direct action, culminating in a series of bombings that rocked Auckland at the end o ...Show more
Dressed: Fashionable Dress in Aotearoa New Zealand 1840 to 1910 by Claire Regnault
70.00 NZD
Category: Fashion | Reading Level: very good
When crinolines, bustles and ostrich feathers were the height of colonial fashion. This richly illustrated and lively social history explores the creation, consumption and spectacle of fashionable dress in Aotearoa New Zealand from 1840 to the early 1900s. Dressmakers were essential contributors to the ...Show more
Transgressing Tikanga - Captured by Maori - First-hand Accounts 1816-1884 by Trevor Bentley
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
Transgressing Tikanga is a collection of 20 first-hand accounts written by Europeans who were captured by Maori between 1816 and 1884. These Pakeha men and women were seized when they either committed blatant acts of aggression or unknowingly transgressed tikanga Maori (customary law), for which utu was ...Show more
Moriori - Origins, Lifestyles and Language by Rhys Richards
130.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Moriori : Origins, Lifestyles and Language is the outcome of independent personal research by Rhys Richards since 1960. Although they were the last part of the habitable world to receive human residents, the Chatham Islands at 44 degrees south, are windy and wet, but in no way sub Antarctic. Tradition r ...Show more
Gender, Culture and Power - Challenging New Zealand's Gendered Culture
27.00 NZD
Category: Cultural History | Series: Critical Issues in New Zealand Society Ser.
The authors here explore the notion that New Zealand is a "gendered culture," a culture in which the structures of masculinity and femininity are central to the formation of society as a whole.