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Going Bush - New Zealanders and Nature in the Twentieth Century by Kirstie Ross
$20.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Series: Studies in Social & Cultural History | Reading Level: Very Good
What does 'the bush' mean to Pakeha New Zealanders? Is it a particular type of vegetation, a place to tramp, something to save, or a refuge from civilisation? By exploring the meanings that Pakeha found in nature from the 1890s to the 1970s, Kirstie Ross shows that the bush was as much about conservativ ...Show more
Going Up Going Down: The Rise and Fall of the Department Store by Helen Laurenson
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: Studies in Social & Cultural History | Reading Level: very good
Going Up, Going Down! is the second title in the new series AUP Studies in Cultural and Social History edited by Caroline Daley and Deborah Montgomerie, a series of richly illustrated medium-length books, reflecting New Zealand's distinctive and sometimes quirky history. This lively account of the New Z ...Show more
Holiday Seasons: New Year, Easter and Christmas in 19th Century New Zealand by Alison Clarke
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: Studies in Social & Cultural History | Reading Level: Very Good
In this entertaining and lively book Alison Clarke shows how colonial settlers from the northern hemisphere adapted the age-old festivals of Christmas, New Year and Easter to a new world of upside-down seasons, unfamiliar vegetation and cultural diversity. They decorated their homes with pohutukawa at C ...Show more
Love in Time of War: Letter Writing In The Second World War by Deborah Montgomerie
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: Studies in Social & Cultural History | Reading Level: very good
Letter Writing In The Second World War This book traces the emotional and psychological ways by which New Zealanders made sense of the upheavals of war. It shows movingly and graphically that NZ soldiers were not inarticulate and insensitive 'hard men' but kept their sense of life before and after the w ...Show more
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