Traditions and Legends of the South Island Maori Collected from the Natives of Murihiku (Southland, New Zealand) by Herries Beattie
$60.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
Originally published in the Journal of the Polynesian Society between 1915 and 1922, these stories were collected by the author crom Maori of Murihiku (Southland). Full index included.
Sunday Best: How Religion Shaped New Zealand and How New Zealand Shaped Religion by Peter Lineham
$55.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
The early arrival of the missionaries in Aotearoa set the scene for a new 'moral colony' that would be founded on religious precepts and modern Christian beliefs. It did not take long for a combination of circumstances to confound the aspirations of the Church Missionary Society, the Church in Rome and ...Show more
Seek and Destroy by Harrison Paul
$90.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
In 2015 No.3 Squadron Royal New Zealand Air Force celebrated 50 years of continuous helicopter operations since it reformed in August 1965. Seek and Destroy is the official history of the machines and personnel that make up the colourful and wide-ranging operations of this unique squadron, which was fir ...Show more
Te Toki Me Te Whao: The Story of Maori Carving Tools by Clive Fugill
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
It is over a century since the last major book on Māori carving tools. Clive Fugill, Master Carver at the NZ Māori Arts & Crafts Institute, tells the mythical, traditional and modern stories of the making and use of carving tools, including the adze (toki) and the chisel (whao) with detailed drawing ...Show more
From Alba to Aotearoa - Profiling New Zealand's Scots migrants 1840-1920 by Rebecca Lenihan
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: very good
Detailed analysis of the origin of NZ's Scots migrants. Scots made up nearly 20 percent of the immigrant population of New Zealand to 1920, yet until the past few years the exact origins of New Zealand’s Scots migrants have remained blurred. From Alba to Aotearoa establishes for the first time key char ...Show more
The Lives of Colonial Objects by Annabel Cooper
$50.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: very good
The Lives of Colonial Objects is a sumptuously illustrated and highly readable book about things, and the stories that unfold when we start to investigate them. In this collection of 50 essays the authors, including historians, archivists, curators and Māori scholars, have each chosen an object from New ...Show more
Johnny Enzed: The New Zealand Soldier in the First World War 1914-1918 by Glyn Harper
$24.99 NZD
$55.00 (54% off)
Category: New Zealand Historical | Series: First World War Centenary History Ser.
The New Zealand soldiers who left these shores to fight in the First World War represented one of the greatest collective endeavours in the nation's history. Over 100,000 men and women would embark for overseas service and almost 60,000 of them became casualties. For a small nation like New Zealand this ...Show more
The ANZAC Girls: The Extraordinary Story of Our World War I Nurses by Peter Rees
$24.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
By the end of the Great War, forty-five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were the women who left for war looking for adventure and romance but were soon confronted with challenges for which their civilian lives could never have ...Show more
Peace, Power & Politics: How New Zealand Became Nuclear Free by Maire Leadbeater
$55.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: Near Fine
This is a story of how ordinary people created a movement that changed New Zealand's foreign policy and our identity as a nation. The story of peace activism from our pre-recorded history to 1975 was told in Peace People: A history of peace activities in New Zealand (1992) by Elsie Locke. In this new bo ...Show more
To the Memory: New Zealand's War Memorials by Jock Phillips
$9.99 NZD
$59.99 (83% off)
Category: New Zealand Historical
Over 30,000 New Zealanders have died in wars since 1840. They have been remembered in the more than a thousand memorials put up in public places throughout New Zealand. Except on Anzac Day, most people pass by these monuments without really looking at them. Yet a huge amount of social energy and resourc ...Show more
Kiwis in Conflict: A History of New Zealanders at War Revised and Updated by Christopher Pugsley; Laurie Barber; 93299210342009329921034200
$59.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
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
The Women's Suffrage Petition Te Petihana Whakamana Poti Wahine1893 by Barbara Brookes
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: near fine