An Indigenous Ocean: Pacific Essays by Damon Salesa
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: 1st
In this captivating collection of essays, acclaimed Pacific scholar Damon Salesa takes us on a journey through the rich cultural and historical tapestry of the Pacific. From the far-reaching indigenous civilisations that flourished in Oceania, to the colonial encounters that shaped Samoa's history, and ...Show more
Vikings of the Sunrise by Te Rangi Hiroa; Paora Tapihana (Foreword by)
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
One of the greatest books ever written about the peopling of the Pacific, Te Rangi Hiroa's masterpiece interweaves oral history, scholarship and personal reflections to recount the movements of seafarers from East Asia to the furthest corners of Polynesia. Out of print for many decades, Vikings of the S ...Show more
Encounters Across Time (BWB Texts) by Judith Binney
17.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
Description: 'Story telling is an art deep within human nature.' A timely collection of writings on history, from one of Aotearoa New Zealand's most distinguished scholars. These essays bring forth important questions for New Zealand history about autonomy, restoration and power that continue to reverbe ...Show more
Our Untold Stories: Extraordinary Tales from New Zealand's Past by Tom Clarke
39.99 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
Knowledge is a Blessing on Your Mind: Selected Writings, 1980-2020 by Anne Salmond
65.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
For fifty years, Dame Anne Salmond has navigated 'te ao hurihuri' - travelling to hui in her little blue VW Beetle with Eruera and Amiria Stirling in the 1970s, working for a university marae alongside Merimeri Penfold, Patu Hohepa and Wharetoroa Kerr in the 1980s, giving evidence to the Waitangi Tribun ...Show more
Introducing the Women's Suffrage Petition 1893 (BWB Texts) by Barbara Brookes and Jared Davidson
17.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
In 1893 New Zealand became the first country in the world with universal suffrage: all New Zealand women now had the right to vote. This achievement owed much to an extraordinary document: the 1893 Women’s Suffrage Petition. Over 270 metres long, with the signatures of some 24,000 women (and at least tw ...Show more
Introducing He Whakaputanga (BWB Texts) by Vincent O'Malley and Jared Davidson
17.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: 1st
The content of this short book is derived directly from the larger illustrated publication, foregoing all illustrations to suit the BWB Texts format. He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni/The Declaration of Independence of New Zealand was signed by fifty-two rangatira from 1835 to 1839. It wa ...Show more
Blood & Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand by Jared Davidson
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: 1st
'Picture, for a minute, every artwork of colonial New Zealand you can think of. Now add a chain gang. Hard labour men guarded by other men with guns. Men moving heavy metal. Men picking at the earth. Over and over again. This was the reality of nineteenth-century New Zealand.' Forced labour haunts the ...Show more
Our Land in Colour by Jock Phillips, Brendan Graham
49.50 NZD
55.00 (10% off)
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
A breathtaking collection of 200 photographs expertly colourised by Aotearoa New Zealand's premier colourist, Brendan Graham, with commentary from award-winning historian Jock Phillips ONZM Our Land in Colour celebrates the rich story of Aotearoa through the restoration of images never before seen in co ...Show more
A Bloody Difficult Subject - Ruth Ross, te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Making of History by Bain Attwood
59.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
One historian's research and the transformation of te Tiriti in New Zealand life.
The Story of a Treaty / He Korero Tiriti (3rd edition) by Claudia Orange
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: 1st
The Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti o Waitangi is a central document in New Zealand history. This lively account tells the story of the Treaty from its signing in 1840, through the debates and struggles of the nineteenth century, to the gathering political momentum of recent decades. The third edition of T ...Show more
Te Motunui Epa by Rachel Buchanan
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
‘This is a story about the power of art to help us find a way through the darkness. It is about how art can bring out the best in us, and the worst. The artworks in question are five wooden panels carved in the late 1700s by relatives in Taranaki.’ This stunning book examines how five interconnected car ...Show more