Common Ground by Matt Morris
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society | Reading Level: very good
Common Ground: Garden histories of Aotearoa takes a loving look at gardens and garden practices in Aotearoa New Zealand over time. While a lot of gardening books focus on the grand plantings of wealthy citizens, Matt Morris explores the historical processes behind humble gardens' those created and ma ...Show more
When Darkness Stays: Hohepa Kereopa and a Tuhoe Oral History by Paul Moon
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society
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
New Zealand Mysteries by Scott Bainbridge
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society
New Zealand’s history is peppered with mysterious tales of otherworldly beings, strange sightings, inexplicable disappearances and unusual crimes. While some of these stories have been handed down through generations, many of them hail from more recent times. The one thing they all have in common is tha ...Show more
From Suffrage to a Seat in the House by Jenny Coleman
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society
New Zealand has always proudly worn its status of being the first country to enfranchise women. But not many know that it took a further 40 long years to get the first woman elected to Parliament. In fact women were not even entitled to stand as candidates in national elections until 1919 - 26 years aft ...Show more
Living On Shaky Ground - The science and story behind New Zealand’s earthquakes by Matthew Wright
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society
What makes our isles so shaky? Why was Christchurch not the first of our big quakes? Any why won’t it be our last? This book investigates our turbulent tectonics. It tells us how earthquakes are measured and described, and how scientists predict future shakes. It details New Zealand’s lesser-known quake ...Show more
Whariki by Paul Merata & Tapsell Kawharu
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society
Told through case studies of entrepreneurs, companies and social enterprises, Whāriki weaves together business theory and day-to-day practice to analyse Māori commercial leadership. From Tai Tokerau (Northland) to Ōtepoti (Dunedin), these are stories of business leadership informed by traditional values ...Show more
100 Days That Mapped a Nation by Graeme Lay
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society | Reading Level: very good
October 2019 marks the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook’s first landfall in New Zealand. One Hundred Days that Mapped a Nation marks this historic occasion by looking at Cook’s intrepid journeys to New Zealand and the Pacific that were unprecedented for the time and had such far-reaching conseque ...Show more
Crafting Aotearoa: A Cultural History of Making in New Zealand and the Wider Moana Oceania by Kololesa Mahina Tuai
$85.00 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society | Reading Level: near fine
A major new history of craft that spans three centuries of making and thinking in Aotearoa New Zealand and the wider Moana (Pacific). It tells the previously untold story of craft in Aotearoa New Zealand, and proposes a new idea of craft - one that acknowledges Pakeha, Maori and wider Moana histories of ...Show more
Hindsight: Pivotal Moments in New Zealand History by Mandy Hager
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society
Four pivotal moments in New Zealand's history are examined through a variety of source materials and commentary that enlivens the event and describes its impact on our society and growth as a nation. Hindsight is a resource for all schools and libraries. These topics are linked to themes in the social s ...Show more
Leading the Way: 100 Years of the Tararua Tramping Club by Shaun Barnett; Chris Maclean
$59.95 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society | Reading Level: near fine
Leading the Way celebrates the centenary of New Zealand's first tramping club, established in 1919, and places its achievements within the evolution of tramping, our most popular sporting activity. The TTC inspired the formation of other tramping clubs throughout New Zealand and has also fostered climbi ...Show more
The New Zealand Wars | Nga Pakanga o Aotearoa by Vincent O'Malley
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society | Series: 1st | Reading Level: near fine
The New Zealand Wars were a series of conflicts that profoundly shaped the course and direction of our nations history. Fought between the Crown and various groups of Maori between 1845 and 1872, the wars touched many aspects of life in nineteenth century New Zealand, even in those regions spared actual ...Show more
Heartland Strong by Brown Margaret
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society
The future of New Zealands rural communities is often in the news. Empty shops, depopulation and lack of jobs are offered as signs that many towns are dying. However, the strength of social ties and development of digital technologies, the innovations in rural entrepreneurship and the functioning inform ...Show more