Historical Records of New Zealand Volume One & Volume Two by Robert McNab (ed.)
$45.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Mineral Waters and Spas of New Zealand by Arthur S. Wohlmann
$45.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
The Colonization of Australia 1829-42. The Wakefield Experiment in Empire Building by Richard Charles Mills
$65.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: good-very good
Studying New Zealand by G.A. Wood
$16.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
This is a strong tool for those in search of information about New Zealand topics. Annotated entries on sources are arranged in sections on electronic databases, libraries and research collections, reference works, bibliographies, periodicals and newspapers, official documents and records, theses and re ...Show more
The Immigrants: The Great Migration From Britain To New Zealand, 1830 1890 by Tony Simpson
$20.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Second hand, soft cover. This general history of 19th-century immigration into New Zealand, looks first at the reasons people left Britain and why they chose New Zealand. With background information on the British economy, society and politics of the time, it discusses the schemes and incentives tha ...Show more
The Bad Old Days - A Century of Life in the Young Colony of New Zealand by Tony Nolan
$20.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Biculturalism by Raj Vasil
$10.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
This book describes the relationship between the indigenous Maori and the settlers who made New Zealand their home. It asserts the status of the tangata whenua and the need for this status to be fully and inherently accepted into the fabric of New Zealand society before equality or social ease can truly ...Show more
The Deepening Stream: A History of the New Zealand Literary Fund by Elizabeth Caffin
$20.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The New Zealand Literary Fund was a small amount of public money skilfully dispensed over forty years to hundreds of writers and publishers. Unobtrusively but persistently, the fund and the dedicated men and women who allotted its largesse laid the foundations of the literary culture we enjoy today. Fro ...Show more
Doctors in Denial - The Forgotten Women in the 'Unfortunate Experiment' by Ronald W Jones
$20.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: very good
When Dr Ron Jones joined the staff of National Women's Hospital in Auckland in 1973 as a junior obstetrician and gynaecologist, Professor Herbert Green's study into the natural history of carcinoma in-situ of the cervix (CIS) - later called 'the unfortunate experiment' - had been in progress for seven y ...Show more
Captain's Log: New Zealand's Maritime History by Gavin McLean
$20.00 NZD
Category: Nautical | Reading Level: very good
This work provides a narrative of the important milestones of New Zealand's maritime history - Cook's voyages, whaling, assisted migration, the formation of the Union Steam Ship Company, the wars, the arrival of the container, and the America's cup.
The Penguin History of New Zealand by Michael King
$15.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Second hand. New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce a full democracy. Between those events, and in the century that followed the franchise, the movements and the conflicts of human history have been played out more inte ...Show more
Every Tea Towel Tells a Story - Richard Till's Special Collection by Richard Till
$10.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Remember Richard Till's fabulous range of nostalgic tea towels in his popular Kiwi Kitchen TV series? This attractive gift book celebrates the time when cities, provincial centres, women's organisations and food producers throughout the country all designed their own tea towels to brighten up kitchens e ...Show more