Jumping Sundays - The Rise and Fall of the Counterculture in Aotearoa New Zealand by Nick Bollinger
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
Award-winning writer Nick Bollinger’s deep history of the transformation of New Zealand life wrought by the counterculture in the 1960s and ’70s.On a Sunday afternoon in the spring of 1969, thousands of people defied Auckland city bylaws and came to party in Albert Park. A rock band played on the rotund ...Show more
Kiwis in Conflict: A History of New Zealanders at War Revised and Updated by Christopher Pugsley; Laurie Barber; 93299210342009329921034200
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Kiwis in Conflict is the story of New Zealand and New Zealanders at war from the mid-19th century to the present day. Originally published as Scars of the Heart, this new revised and updated edition examines the impact of war through the eyes of those involved using photographs, paintings, letters and d ...Show more
Living Among the Northland Maori - Diary of Father Antoine Garin, 1844-1846 by Antonie Garin; Peter Tremewan (editor, translator); Giselle Larcome (editor, translator)
$90.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
A French Marist priest, Father Antoine Garin was sent to run the remote Mangakahia mission station on the banks of the Wairoa River. Living Among the Northland Maori is Garin's diary recording his experiences from 1844 to 1846 as he gets to know the Maori in the region. The diary provides vivid accounts ...Show more
Our Untold Stories: Extraordinary Tales from New Zealand's Past by Tom Clarke
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Our Untold Stories is a collection of interesting, informative, entertaining, amusing, inspiring, tragic and fascinating stories from New Zealand’s past — stories which have been largely forgotten or were unknown. For more than 40 years, former journalist Tom Clarke has been gathering stories for a Tod ...Show more
Rebuilding the Kainga - Lessons from Te Ao Hurihuri (BWB Texts) by Jade Kake
$17.99 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: BWB texts | Reading Level: very good
Home can and should be a source of wellbeing, a place that connects us to our whanau, community, land, culture and history. Pre-nineteenth-century Maori society was complex: rich tribal economies were built and flourished, and there was a focus on valuing the whenua and resources that supported all. The ...Show more
Shifting Grounds - Deep Histories of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland by Lucy Mackintosh
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
In a city that has forgotten and erased much of its history, there are still places where traces of the past can be found. Deep histories, both natural and human, have been woven together over hundreds of years in places across Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland, forming potent sites of national significance. T ...Show more
Sure To Rise: The Edmond's Story by Peter Alsop, Kate Parsonson, Richard Wolfe
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
Edmonds is one of New Zealand's best-known brands - its radiant sun and 'Sure to Rise' promise have embellished baking powder labels and the much-loved Edmonds Cookery Book for over a hundred years and are now embedded in our popular culture. The man behind the company, Thomas Edmonds, came to New Zeala ...Show more
Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History by Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney, Aroha Harris
$100.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Second hand. Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History charts the sweep of Māori history from ancient origins through to the twenty-first century. Through narrative and images, it offers a striking overview of the past, grounded in specific localities and histories.The story begins with the migration of a ...Show more
The English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi by Ned Fletcher
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
How was the English text of the Treaty of Waitangi understood by the British in 1840? That is the question addressed by historian and lawyer Ned Fletcher, in this extensive work. With one exception, the Treaty sheets signed by rangatira and British officials were in te reo Maori. The Maori text, Te Tiri ...Show more
Voices from the New Zealand Wars | He Reo nō ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa by Vincent O'Malley
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
'Welcome to our story, this history. Wherever in the world the bones of your ancestors lie, wherever their ashes may have been dispersed, here you will find traces of them, and of yourself... It is, of course, a story of colonisation and resistance - and a history that has never stopped repeating.' The ...Show more
1921: Rugby Race & Empire by Mike Munro
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
In the winter of 1921 a Springboks rugby team toured New Zealand for the first time, captivating the country. An all-white team of mostly Afrikaners, they came cloaked in a powerful mystique – blue-eyed, “youthful giants” from a fellow British colony. Twenty-three of the team had served in the just-ende ...Show more
A Savage Country: The untold Story of New Zealand in the 1820s by Paul Moon
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. New Zealand in the 1820s had no government or bureaucratic presence; no newspapers were published; the literate population was probably no more than a couple of dozen people at any one time. Early explorers' assessments of New Zealand were haphazard at best - few knew what to make of this f ...Show more