Growing More Than Grass: Clever, Creative Rural Kiwi Women by Heather Kidd
$9.99 NZD
$39.99 (75% off)
Category: NZ History and Society | Reading Level: Near Fine
It used to be that behind every chisel-jawed, No 8-wired Kiwi farmer stood a good woman. But how those times have changed. The New Zealand rural landscape of the 21 century now features many enterprising women engaged in making a living off the land in their own right. Growing More Than Grass showcases ...Show more
Maori Television by Smith Jo
$44.99 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society | Reading Level: very good
Established in 2004.Maori Television has had a major impact on New Zealand broadcasting. But over the past year or so, the politics of Maori Television have been brought to the foreground of public consciousness, with other media outlets tracking Maori Television's search for a new CEO, allegations of e ...Show more
At the Margin of Empire : John Webster and Hokianga, 1841-1900 by Jennifer Ashton
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society
In this remarkable biography, Jennifer Ashton uses the life of one man as a unique lens through which to view the early history of New Zealand. Born in Scotland in 1818, John Webster came to New Zealand via Australia in 1841 (after a violent encounter in the outback which he just escaped unscathed) and ...Show more
Teenagers - The rise of youth culture in New Zealand by Chris Brickell
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society | Reading Level: near fine
Teenagers is a ground-breaking history of young people in New Zealand from the nineteenth century to the 1960s. Through their diaries and letters, photographs and drawings, we meet young New Zealanders as they transition from children to adults: sealers and bushfellers, factory girls and newspaper boys, ...Show more
New Zealand Between the Wars by Rachael Bell
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society
If World War One was the crucible that forged an independent New Zealand identity, then the two decades following are surely the years in which the foundation for the new nation was laid. In shedding the last vestiges of colonial society in exchange for the trappings of a modern democratic nation, the 1 ...Show more
The Shops by Steve Braunias and Peter Black
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society
Text by Steve Braunias, and photography by Peter Black, on the melancholy and beauty of New Zealand shops.
Rebooting The Regions by Paul Spoonley (Editor)
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society
EXPERT INSIGHTS INTO COMBATTING THE PULL OF AUCKLAND AND GETTING THE REGIONS HUMMINGLoss of jobs, loss of young people, the ageing demographic, the apparently irresistible magnet of Auckland ...the economic fortunes of New Zealand's regions are of great concern to politicians, the business community, sc ...Show more
Tell You What by Amini Debbie
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$29.99 (66% off)
Category: NZ History and Society | Reading Level: Very Good
'Poignant and powerful, and a must have" on every New Zealand bookshelf', said the Otago Daily Times about last year's volume of Tell You What. 'Could this be the start of an annual series?' asked Philip Mathews in Your Weekend. By popular request, the editors of last summer's nonfiction hit are back wi ...Show more
Post Marks: The Way We Were - Early New Zealand Postcards, 1897-1922 by Leo Haks; Colleen Dallimore; Alan Jackson
$69.99 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society | Reading Level: New
The aim of this book is to provide an introduction to New Zealand picture postcards beginning in 1897, when the first official postcard was published. The 25-year period that this book covers includes the boon years in New Zealand postcard production, 1903-1910 and World War 1. As a lifelong collector, ...Show more
Hello Girls & Boys! A New Zealand Toy Story by David Veart
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society | Reading Level: near fine
A seriously fun New Zealand toy story! Toys are made for playing with, but they are also serious business, as this remarkable story of New Zealanders and their toys makes clear. In Hello Girls and Boys! David Veart digs through a few centuries of pocket knives and plasticine to take us deep into the chi ...Show more
Cannons Creek to Waitangi Te Pakehas Treaty Claim For Equality by Andy Oakley
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society
The Maori Intertribal Wars 1801 – 1840 were New Zealand’s biggest tragedy of the 19th century. An estimated 43,600 natives were killed or wounded by enemy tribes. However, this cataclysmic near extinction of our early settlers is tossed aside as irrelevant when something like the special rights of a mou ...Show more
Land and Politics Ko te Whenua te Utu / Land is the Price: Essays on Maori History by M.P.K Sorrenson
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society | Reading Level: very good
There are essentially two histories of Aotearoa. First, a long Maori history and secondly a history of Pakeha colonisation and take-over of Aotearoa. The two histories have been repeatedly stitched together . . . . For more than half a century, Keith Sorrenson – one of New Zealand’s leading historians a ...Show more