The Penguin Book of New Zealand War Writing by Harry Ricketts and Gavin McLean (eds)
$65.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: near fine
'The editors ...have cast their nets widely indeed. They have produced a volume that no-one with an interest in wars in which this country has become ensnared should miss reading. The book is a vast treasure trove of material'. - Otago Daily Times Warfare, both at home and abroad, has shaped the way New ...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
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
Hope: In the Hands of Fatima by Christine Spring
$24.99 NZD
$39.99 (37% off)
Category: New Zealand Historical
All the author's royalties and net proceeds from this book will be donated by Beatnik Publishing to UNICEF NZ for the Syrian Refugee programmes in Lebanon. HOPE chronicles UNICEF NZ's visit to the Saadnayel and Oumarieh Informal Refugee Settlement in Lebanon, where 3 million refugees - 500,000 of whom a ...Show more
Being Pakeha Now - Reflections and Recollections of a White Native by Michael King
$36.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: good-very good
A reprint of Michael King's seminal book on what it means to be a non-Maori New Zealander.First published in 1985, Being Pakeha Now became a kiwi classic, a strong reply both to Maori who were asserting their own identity and also to Pakeha who were mumbling that they didn't have a strong culture or ide ...Show more
The Treaty on the Ground by Rachael Bell
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
THE COALFACE REALITY OF HONOURING THE TREATY OF WAITANGI IN TODAY'S LAW, LOCAL GOVERNMENT, EDUCATION, HEALTH, SOCIAL SERVICES AND MOREIt's 175 years since the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. At times they've been years of conflict and bitterness, but there have also been remarkable gains, and positiv ...Show more
New Zealand Between the Wars by Rachael Bell
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
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 Women's Suffrage Petition Te Petihana Whakamana Poti Wahine1893 by Barbara Brookes
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: near fine
Phoney Wars: New Zealand Society in the Second World War by Stevan Eldred-Grigg:Hugh Eldred-Grigg
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
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
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
Waitangi: A Living Treaty by Matthew Wright
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical
Acclaimed historian Matthew Wright explores the evolution of New Zealand's most historically significant document, the Treaty of Waitangi, from its origins to its place in the present day. From the early cultural collisions between Maori and Pakeha that led to this landmark agreement, to the many reinte ...Show more
Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Reading Level: good-very good
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond shows us how seven countr ...Show more