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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
Auckland - The Twentieth-Century Story by Paul Moon
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: good-very good
Auckland: The Twentieth-Century Story journeys through the mosaic of cultures and lifestyles, anxieties and hopes, disasters and triumphs, virtues and vices that led to the transformation of New Zealand's largest city between 1900 and 2000.
Encounters: The Creation of New Zealand by Paul Moon
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
'Throughout its human history, New Zealand has been interpreted and experienced in often radically different ways. Each wave of arrivals to its shores has left its own set of views of New Zealand on the country – applying a new coat of mythology and understanding to the landscape, usually without fully ...Show more
Face to Face - Conversations with Remarkable New Zealanders by Paul Moon; Jane Ussher
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Stimulating, humorous, sometimes controversial and always revealing, Face to Face offers intimate portraits of the lives of twelve remarkable New Zealanders. Through conversations with Paul Moon, one of the country's most acclaimed historians and cultural commentators, and through the lens of award-winn ...Show more
Fatal Frontiers - A new history of New Zealand in the decade before the Treaty by Paul Moon
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
A fascinating account of New Zealand in the colourful and pivotal 1830s. Some of the most interesting and important events in New Zealand history took place in the 1830s. In this period the French almost beat the British to claim New Zealand, aggressive English merchants were applying pressure on the co ...Show more
Ka Ngaro Te Reo: Maori Language Under Siege in the 19th Century by Paul Moon
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
Secondhand. Ka ngaro te reo, ka ngaro taua, pera i te ngaro o te moa. If the language be lost, man will be lost, as dead as the moa. In 1800, te reo Māori was the only language spoken in New Zealand. By 1899, it was on the verge of disappearing altogether. In Ka Ngaro Te Reo, Paul Moon traces the spira ...Show more
Ngapua : The Political Life of Hone Heke Ngapua, MHR by Paul Moon
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: Very Good
Hone Heke Ngapua (1869-1909) was one of the foremost Maori leaders of the past two centuries. He received enormous recognition as an MP, working alongside Carroll, Ngata, and Seddon, and emerged as the country's first pan-tribal Maori leader. 398 pp.
The Edges of Empires - New Zealand In The Middle Of The Nineteenth Century by Paul Moon
$35.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: near fine
Well known historian Paul Moon provides a 'captivating and intimate account of New Zealand in the 1950s.' He shines a 'powerful light' on this previously 'obscured decade' and in doing so, has illuminated one of the most significant periods in the country's history, with an eye for colourful detail and ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of James Busby - His Majesty's British Resident in New Zealand by Paul Moon
$44.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: near fine
One of the British Empire's most troubling colonial exports in the 19th-century, James Busby is known as the father of the Australian wine industry, the author of New Zealand's Declaration of Independence and a central figure in the early history of independent New Zealand as its British Resident from 1 ...Show more
The Struggle for Tamaki Makaurau - The Maori Occupation of Auckland to 1820 by Paul Moon
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
Maori Auckland is synonymous with Ngati Whatua, or so it seems. However, there is a much longer and far more contentious history of the area which challenges this assumption, and raises the possibility of several other tribes staking a claim for dominion over Auckland
Touring Edwardian New Zealand by Paul Moon
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
The Edwardian era (1901-14) was fleeting but significant, perhaps nowhere more so than in Aotearoa New Zealand. At the turn of the twentieth century, many British regarded New Zealand as ‘the Britain of the South Seas’. Tourist promotions created an idealised impression of a country that was partly a c ...Show more
When Darkness Stays: Hohepa Kereopa and a Tuhoe Oral History by Paul Moon
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
This extraordinary book – unsettling, harrowing, and ultimately redemptive – is based on the time the author spent with the Tūhoe tohunga, Hōhepa Kereopa. It plunges deep into a cultural landscape that has almost vanished, bringing to light insights that are enriching and sometimes shocking. The work ...Show more
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