Te Ao Hou: The New World 1820-1920 by Judith Binney; Vincent O¿Malley; Alan Ward
$59.99 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society
Te Ao Hou: The New World takes up the increasingly complex history of Maori entwined with Pakeha newcomers from about 1830. As the new world unfolded, Maori independence was hotly contested; Maori held as tightly as they could to their authority over the land, while the Crown sought to loosen it. War br ...Show more
Phoney Wars: New Zealand Society in the Second World War by Stevan Eldred-Grigg:Hugh Eldred-Grigg
$49.95 NZD
Category: NZ Military History
Phoney Wars looks at the lives of New Zealanders during the greatest armed struggle the world has ever seen: the Second World War. It is not a political, economic or military history; rather it explores what life was like during the war years for ordinary people living under the New Zealand flag. Stevan ...Show more
Musket Wars by Ron Crosby
$75.00 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society
First published in 1999, with an introduction by the late Michael King, The Musket Wars established Ron Crosby's reputation as a daring, original chronicler of New Zealand history. This best-selling history provides the first comprehensive account of the wars that ravaged the country in the early 1800s, ...Show more
A Travel Guide To James Cooks New Zealand by Graeme Lay
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ History and Society | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand remained a special place during James Cook's epic voyages of discovery and exploration. He returned to the country several times, mainly to Ship Cove in Queen Charlotte sound, which became his favourite New Zealand anchorage. In his journals he comments on the great potential of the islands ...Show more
From Battle of Britain Airman to POW Escapee - The Story of Ian Walker RAF by Angela Walker
$59.99 NZD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
This is the Second World War story of a champion cyclist turned airman who lived to tell the tale against almost impossible odds. A New Zealander in the RAF, Ian Walker took part in the Battle of Britain before transferring to Bomber Command and surviving three plane crashes in his Wellington bomber. Th ...Show more
Fearless: The Extraordinary Untold Story of New Zealand's Great War Airmen by Adam Claasen
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military History | Reading Level: very good
More than 1000 New Zealanders served in the Royal Flying Corps, Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Air Force. Several, including Sir Keith Park, later became senior air commanders of the Second World War. Among them were leading air aces, including Keith Caldwell, Ronald Bannerman and the famous tenn ...Show more
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
A Short History of the New Zealand Wars by Gordon McLauchlan
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Military History | Reading Level: very good
Following the ongoing success of A Short History of New Zealand, Great Tales of New Zealand History and Great Tales of Rural New Zealand - all reprinted and still going strong - Gordon McLauchlan has turned his masterful storytelling skills to one of the most important periods in this country's history. ...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