The Baubles of Office: The New Zealand General Election of 2005 by Stephen I. Levine
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
The Baubles of Office is the story of a cliff-hanger election, New ZealandâÃÂÃÂs closest yet under MMP. For nearly two weeks no one knew who had won, Labour or National. On election night it was Don Brash who was cheerful and elated, Helen Clark who seemed grim and shaken. New Zealand acquired a ...Show more
The Bay of Islands by Jack Lee
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
First published as I have named it the Bay of Islands (a quote taken from the journal of James Cook written in 1769) in 1987, this landmark book is an authoritative chronicle of early European discovery and settlement of the area. As the focal point for much of the early trading and commercial industrie ...Show more
The Big Kahuna: Tax and Welfare : Turning Tax and Welfare in New Zealand on Its Head by Gareth Morgan and Susan Guthrie
$35.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
One day, when he was contributing to the Tax and Welfare Working Group, economist Gareth Morgan made an off-the-cuff remark that the solution to all of New Zealand's tax and welfare woes lay in abolishing the present welfare system and radically overhauling the tax system. He called this idea 'the big k ...Show more
The Big Show: New Zealanders, D-Day and the War in Europe by Alison Parr
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
More than 10,000 New Zealand servicemen were on active duty with the RAF and the Royal Navy at the time of the D-Day landings, in June 1944. Until now, the role played by these men has been largely untold. The Big Show provides the first eye witness account of their experience at the heart of the Europe ...Show more
The Big Smoke: New Zealand Cities 1840-1920 by Ben Schrader
$60.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. The pursuit of city life is one of the most important untold stories of New Zealand. The Big Smoke is the first comprehensive history to tell this story, presenting a dynamic and highly illustrated account of city life from 1840 to 1920.It explores such questions as: what did cities look li ...Show more
The Bolger Years 1990-1997 by Margaret Clark (ed.)
$38.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Memories of the Bolger years by those who worked closely with and for him in the two sequential National Governments of which he was Prime Minister of New Zealand between 1990 and 1997. These accounts vividly portray the political dynamics and challenges of the government that succeeded Lange's Labour g ...Show more
The Bookmen's Dominion: Cultural Life in New Zealand 1920-1950 by Christopher Hilliard
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
The Bookmen's Dominion recovers an almost forgotten chapter in New Zealand's ongoing conversation about itself. It is often assumed that the study of New Zealand history and literature began relatively recently. But, as early as the 1920s, people with backgrounds in journalism, or library work, or profe ...Show more
The Broken Decade - Prosperity, Depression and Recovery in New Zealand, 1928-39 by Malcolm McKinnon
$50.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
The Depression of the 1930s was a defining period in New Zealand history. It had its own vocabulary swaggers and sugarbags, relief work and sustenance, the Queen Street riots and special constables that was all too familiar to those who lived through that tumultuous decade. But one generations reality i ...Show more
The Brothers York: An English Tragedy by Thomas Penn
$26.00 NZD
Category: History
SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 BY THE GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE 'A gripping, complex and sensational story, told with calm narrative command ... With insight and skill, Penn cuts through the thickets of history to find the heart of these heartless ...Show more
The Case of the Missing Bloodstain by Keith Hunter
$38.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: Very Good
For over 40 years the murder of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe has been the great unsolved mystery of New Zealand criminal history. Local farmer Arthur Allan Thomas was twice convicted of their murders but was later given a Royal Pardon. In this comprehensive anatomy of the investigation veteran journalist ...Show more
The Complete History of New Zealand in Less Than Two Hours by Peter Jessup
$20.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Want to know about New Zealand's rich and fascinating history - but you're tight for time? Here's the answer; The Complete History of New Zealand (in less than two hours!). This concise guide is designed to tell you all you need to know about New Zealand's past in the time it takes to watch a movie ...Show more
The Deepening Stream: A History of the New Zealand Literary Fund by Elizabeth Caffin
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The New Zealand Literary Fund was a small amount of public money skilfully dispensed over forty years to hundreds of writers and publishers. Unobtrusively but persistently, the fund and the dedicated men and women who allotted its largesse laid the foundations of the literary culture we enjoy today. Fro ...Show more