An Uncommon Land
An Uncommon Land is a story of enclosure, dispossession, colonisation and – ultimately – hope for a better future. Through the lens of her ancestors’ stories, Catherine Knight throws light on the genesis and evolution of the commons, its erosion through enclosure and the ascendency of private property in parallel with the rise of capitalism – a history that has...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips Monday
Atlas of the New Zealand Wars
In the Atlas of the New Zealand Wars, five decades of maps and plans from 1834 to 1884 provide remarkable new insight into the deep conflicts running through nineteenth-century Aotearoa. Beginning with early skirmishes off the Taranaki coast and at the Chathams, Volume One follows the tracks inland from the Bay of Islands towards the Hokianga in the Northern Wars;...Hardback$8500Elsewhere:$8999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips Monday
Maranga! Maranga! Maranga! The Call to Maori History
Celebrating over three decades of Māori scholarship, essays from Maranga! Maranga! Maranga! The Call to Maori History, edited by Aroha Harris and Melissa Matutina Williams, draws on work published by the collective Te Pouhere Kōrero in the journal of the same name. Writers include Rawinia Higgins, Melissa Matutina Williams, Arini Loader, Nēpia Mahuika, Alice Te Punga Somerville, Rachel Buchanan, Aroha...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips Monday
Greece Crete Stalag Dachau - A New Zealand Soldier's Encounters With Hitler's Army
In 1940, 28-year-old Jack Elworthy left to fight in Europe. He would return seven years later, changed forever. Like many soldiers, Jack had experienced the best and worst of human nature—from the kindness and bravery of Crete civilians to the unimaginable horrors of Dachau. He escaped from Greece as the Nazis rolled in, fought and was captured in Crete, and...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips Monday
Fletchers
Most of New Zealand's great business icons of the twentieth century have withered, disappeared or been swallowed by other firms. But a century after James Fletcher began his work in Dunedin in 1909, Fletcher Building continues to perform as one of New Zealand's largest and most trusted companies, with a significant international presence. Fletchers tells the story of how Fletcher,...Hardback$4999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips Monday
The History of a Riot
The History of a Riot presents a compelling microhistory of collective revolt. In 1843, the New Zealand Company settlement of Nelson was disrupted by the revolt of its emigrant labourers. Over 70 gang-men and their wives united to resist their poor working conditions through petitions, strikes, and, ultimately, violence. Despite the significance of this struggle, it has often been overshadowed...Paperback$1700Elsewhere:$2000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips Monday-
Why Memory Matters
'Behind the foreground narratives of justification, real or symbolic wounds are stored in the archives of cultural memory.' From curriculum to commemoration to constitutional reform, our society is in the grip of memory, a politics and culture marked by waves of loss, grief, absence, and victimhood. Why are certain aspects of the past remembered over others, and why does this...Paperback$1700Elsewhere:$2000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips Monday -
Introducing The Womens Suffrage Petition 1893
The content of this short book is derived directly from the larger illustrated publication, foregoing all illustrations to suit the BWB Texts format. In 1893, New Zealand became the first country in the world with universal suffrage: all New Zealand women now had the right to vote. This achievement owed much to an extraordinary document: the 1893 Women's Suffrage Petition....Paperback$1700Elsewhere:$2000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips Monday 
Tairāwhiti
Based on his investigative Newsroom series, Aaron Smale’s Tāirawhiti: Pine, Profit and the Cyclone goes deep into the region’s struggle with colonial legacies and environmental mismanagement. Through personal stories, interviews and critical analysis, Smale uncovers the multifaceted impacts of pine plantations, land confiscation, and climate events of increasing severity on a landscape and its people. This BWB Text provides a...Paperback$1700Elsewhere:$2000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips Monday
Singing the Trail
The very first maps, oral maps made by early Polynesian and Māori settlers, were waypoints, lists of places in songs, chants, karakia, and stories that showed direction. Hundreds of years later, Abel Tasman made the first attempt at a physical map; this was followed more than a century later by James Cook, whose more detailed map was made as he...Hardback$7500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips Monday
Out of the Blue
In a collection spanning her career, highly regarded art historian and curator Christina Barton reminds readers of the art writer’s essential quandary: how to put the visual, material, sensory, and temporal into words. The project of art writing is at once argumentative and invested, she writes, self-doubting and ambitious, flawed yet with its own beauty (at its best). Published in...Paperback$4500Elsewhere:$5000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips Monday
The Dark Dad
Art historian Mary Kisler grew up in the early 1950s with a father who talked little, whose affection she cherished and whose anger she feared. She later came to understand the trauma that lay behind his dark moods: rejection and violence in his childhood and the brutal experience of being a prisoner of war in Italy and then Germany from...Paperback$3700Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips Monday
New Zealand's Great War
This book is a collection of essays arising out of the Zealandia's Great War conference organised by the New Zealand Military History Committee in November 2003. In 32 essays by distinguished military historians from New Zealand and around the world, various aspects of New Zealand's involvement in World War One are discussed. Subjects include the Pioneer Maori Battalion, women who...Hardback$8100Elsewhere:$8999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips Monday
Maori Peoples of New Zealand
Who are the Māori of New Zealand? How did they get here and how did they settle the country? What are the main tribal groups in New Zealand, and where are they based? The first publication to come out of the online Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand project tells the story of the tangata whenua of Aotearoa, from their...Paperback$4500Elsewhere:$4999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips Monday
Sleeps Standing
A little book containing so much — a novella, history, eyewitness reports, Māori translation, verse, and images. Both fiction and fact, this fascinating book is a kaleidoscopic exploration of the Battle of Orakau. During three days in 1864, 300 Māori men, women, and children fought an Imperial army and captured the imagination of the world. The battle marked the end...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips Monday
Te Tiriti o Waitangi Relationships
Regardless of upheavals at the highest political level, the narratives and analyses in this book demonstrate that the Treaty relationships built on the ground may continue to develop and persist. This is the third volume by leading scholars and researchers in a series discussing the complexities of te Tiriti o Waitangi issues. Together, this group of essays takes a dynamic...Paperback$4500Elsewhere:$4999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips Monday
Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!
This major publication about Māori participation in the First World War is written by New Zealand's leading Māori military historian, Dr Monty Soutar, author of the award-winning Nga Tama Toa C Company, Māori Battalion. Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E! offers a fascinating look at the Pioneer Battalion—the unit created for Māori to serve. The book sheds light on the reasons why...Hardback$7200Elsewhere:$8999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips Monday
Grid
This gripping biography of Air Commodore Keith 'Grid' Caldwell CBE, MC, DFC & Bar, Croix de Guerre, tells the story of his remarkable exploits during the First World War. Flying single-seat fighters against the best of the German air force, including the Red Baron's Flying Circus and airmen such as Werner Voss, Caldwell accumulated 26 victories in aerial combat. Over...Hardback$6500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips Monday
An Island to Oneself
A South Seas classic since 1966, this is the story of one New Zealander brave enough to do what we have all now and then dreamed of doing – live alone on a desert island. In his youth, Tom Neale was an ordinary seaman and for years a shopkeeper among the Cook Islands, but he was in his fifties when...Hardback$3800Elsewhere:$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips Monday
The Sound of Breaking Glass
In The Sound of Breaking Glass, Christel Maxine is at breaking point. Balancing a demanding career in reality television, raising two small children, and maintaining her commitment as an activist with Women Against Surplus Plastic, Christel's life is a whirlwind of pressure and responsibility. On top of these challenges, she is being stalked, adding an ominous new layer of stress...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips Monday
Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History
Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History is a landmark publication that meticulously portrays the extensive journey of Māori history from Pacific origins to the twenty-first century. Authored by Atholl Anderson, this richly illustrated book spans numerous generations, offering readers a vivid and comprehensive narrative that is anchored in specific localities and histories. The book unfolds across fifteen compelling chapters, each of...Hardback$9999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips Monday
Nga Tama Toa
Nga Tama Toa by Monty Soutar is an enthralling chronicle of C Company of the Maori Battalion, meticulously captured through personal recollections, eyewitness accounts, heart-warming anecdotes, and remarkable photographs. Delve into a narrative that brings to life the bravery, camaraderie, and indomitable spirit of men who left an indelible mark on history. This extraordinary book seamlessly blends detailed historical context...Hardback$6300Elsewhere:$6999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips Monday
History of New Zealand Women, A
Barbara Brookes' History of New Zealand Women offers a transformative exploration of New Zealand's past, shifting the historical perspective from the well-trodden paths of male-dominated narratives to the significant but often overlooked experiences of women. Rejecting Thomas Carlyle's notion of history as 'the biography of great men,' Brookes re-centres the narrative lens to examine the development of New Zealand through...Paperback$7000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips Monday
Between Worlds
An epic, award-winning account of Pakeha-Maori relations immediately following Captain Cook's voyages to New Zealand. 'Vivid, convincing and utterly memorable.' —Michael King, North & South Anne Salmond's extraordinary Between Worlds begins with the arrival of Cook's second expedition in 1773 and takes the story through to 1815, with the establishment of the first British missionary settlement in the Bay of...Paperback$5400Elsewhere:$6000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips Monday
Ask That Mountain: The Story of Parihaka
Ask That Mountain: The Story of Parihaka by Dick Scott offers a compelling narrative that brings to life the remarkable story of the peaceful resistance movement led by the Maori chiefs Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kakahi in 19th-century New Zealand. Nestled at the foot of Mt Taranaki, the settlement of Parihaka became a beacon for Maori dignity and...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Blood and Dirt
Picture, for a minute, every artwork of colonial New Zealand you can think of. Now add a chain gang. Hard labour men guarded by other men with guns. Men moving heavy metal. Men picking at the earth. Over and over again. This was the reality of nineteenth-century New Zealand. Forced labour haunts the streets we walk today and the spaces...Hardback$3999Elsewhere:$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Becoming Pakeha
A journey between two cultures After more than 200 years of co-existence under the umbrella of a unique treaty, you might think things would be better than ever. In this perceptive and piercing book, John Bluck argues that Pākehā and Māori worlds grow ever more separate. The Aotearoa of today is a landscape of two predominant cultures, overlaid with so...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Note Through the Wire
'An unforgettable love story set in perilous circumstances. It is a reminder that even in the most horrific times love will find a way and ultimately conquer. I can't recommend it enough.' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz In the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, two people meet fleetingly in a chance encounter. One is an underground resistance fighter;...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$3899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
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Introducing The English Text Of The Treaty
Introducing the English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi provides a clear and accessible account of the research behind Ned Fletcher’s award-winning study of the Treaty’s English text. Drawing on the same careful archival work as the larger book, this short edition guides readers through the origins, intentions, and meaning of the English text, and the wider imperial context in...Paperback$3499Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableOut 1 Oct 2026Pre-order 
Becoming Tangata Tiriti
In Becoming Tangata Tiriti, Avril Bell brings forth an insightful exploration of the challenging yet rewarding journey of engaging with te ao Māori and embracing the principles of te Tiriti o Waitangi. This compelling work gathers the voices of twelve non-Māori individuals—dedicated professionals, activists, and everyday citizens—who have made sincere efforts to integrate te Tiriti into their daily lives and...Paperback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Introducing Maori Culture
Introducing Maori Culture by Don Stafford provides a comprehensive exploration of the rich history and culture of the Maori people. This book delves into key questions such as: When was Aotearoa discovered? How was Maori society organised in pre-European times? What is traditional Maori art? How does the Treaty of Waitangi affect us today? From the great Polynesian migration to...Paperback$2000Elsewhere:$2200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
New Zealand’s Worst Disasters
A full train plunges into a raging river at Tangiwai; the Wahine is tossed onto rocks at the entrance to Wellington Harbour; an Air New Zealand DC-10 plunges into Mt Erebus; an earthquake destroys Christchurch … disasters like these are known to all New Zealanders: they are part of our history. But New Zealand has experienced many less well-known disasters,...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Haerenga: Early Maori Journeys Across the Globe
Haerenga: Early Maori Journeys Across the Globe by Vincent O'Malley offers a fascinating glimpse into the first encounters between Maori and Europeans, not only along New Zealand's shorelines but also in far-flung cities such as Melbourne, Liverpool, and New York. From the late eighteenth century, Maori travellers ventured from New Zealand to explore the world. Their journeys were prompted by...Paperback$1700Elsewhere:$2000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
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Since the early nineteenth century, Māori and Christian worldviews in Aotearoa have both co-existed and clashed. Against the backdrop of colonisation, some Māori began to knit together Christianity and tikanga in powerful new ways. In this significant collection of essays, scholars and experts ask: How did Christian missionaries understand Māori culture? How did Māori make sense of the Bible, and...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableOut 5 Nov 2026Pre-order
Pre-orderTrading Blows
During the first decades of the nineteenth century, New Zealand was swept by inter-tribal warfare of unprecedented scale, in struggles that became known as the Musket Wars. They lasted a generation and profoundly shaped modern New Zealand, with influence extending to the locations of main centres—Auckland, Wellington, New Plymouth, Nelson, and Napier among others. Multiple race-relations issues today can be...Paperback$3999Elsewhere:$4500Unit price /UnavailableOut 22 Oct 2026Pre-order
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Weaving together voices, documents and images from centuries of cooperation, conflict and change, The Treaty of Waitangi Companion ranges from first contact between Māori and Europeans to today’s debates over the place of te Tiriti o Waitangi in our constitutional arrangements. Rather than offering a single narrative, Vincent O’Malley and Bruce Stirling bring readers close to the historical record itself....Paperback$5499Elsewhere:$5999Unit price /UnavailableOut 1 Nov 2026Pre-order
Women, Home & Country
Women, Home & Country marks the centenary of the New Zealand Federation of Women’s Institutes, celebrating 100 years of friendship, service and community across Aotearoa New Zealand. Richly illustrated with archival material, contemporary photography and personal reflections, this beautifully produced hardback traces the story of the organisation from its rural beginnings in 1921 to its nationwide presence today. It captures...Hardback$5000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Samoa
This colourful book introduces the Samoa Islands. It reveals a proud society that has withstood the impact of colonisation and retained a unique lifestyle centred around the family and village.Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Pakeha Slaves, Maori Masters
While people are aware of the atrocities of the black slave trade, few are aware of the enslavement and trafficking of Europeans in 19th-century New Zealand. Hierarchical and assertive Maori tribal societies considered all Pakeha (non-Maori, mainly Europeans) living within their power and under their protection as chattel slaves (personal property) or demi-slaves (tributary vassals). For Maori, the sailors, convicts,...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Mua I Malae
In 1980s Auckland there were many New Zealand Samoan children whose first language was not English and who struggled in mainstream classes. One small community of parents and their local school—Richmond Road Primary School—created a Samoan bilingual education vision and brought it to life. Mua I Malae by Matua Atina`e, Komiti o Tina, explores this unique effort to provide an...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Historic Homesteads of Hawke's Bay
These gracious homes – dotted across the sun-drenched uplands of Hawke’s Bay – rose unashamedly from the golden fleeces on the sheep’s backs, to become monuments to our settler heritage. Set in spacious grounds and framed by enormous exotic trees, such as oaks, gums or Norfolk pines, they stand as testament to the dreams of our ancestors who came to...Hardback$5000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
From the Blitz to the Burmese Jungle and Beyond: a Memoir by Hennessy
One man's memoir of World War II which took him from the Blitz to the jungles of Burma, to the devastation of Hiroshima. I consider myself lucky to have survived the global carnage still myself - a reluctant soldier who had to go to war, who only ever wanted peace for everyone. - Brian Hennessy Brian immigrated to New Zealand...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Eyes of Fire: the Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior
Award-winning journalist David Robie was on board the Greenpeace environmental ship Rainbow Warrior on its last mission to Rongelap Atoll in May 1985 and stayed with the ship until it reached Auckland in July. Robie's account of this voyage—of the Marshall Islands community poisoned by nuclear fallout and of the fatal bombing of the Rainbow Warrior by the French secret...Paperback$5000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Early Maritime Tauranga
Some of the most interesting and important events in Tauranga's history took place before its occupation by the British and colonial forces, and the battles of Gate Pa and Te Ranga in 1864. In this book, historian Trevor Bentley brings Tauranga's colour and dramatic, pre-colonial, maritime history to light. It is a fascinating history of daring Polynesian migrant-settlers and resident...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Voices Of World War II
‘We are only a small and young nation, but we are one and all a band of brothers and we march forward with a union of hearts and wills to a common destiny.’ — Michael Joseph Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand, upon the outbreak of WWII in 1939 Voices of World War II shows the human side of war...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Unsettled Bliss
A powerful new book confronts whiteness in Aotearoa – its history, its consequences, and the responsibilities it demands. If you do not know the history of Aotearoa after the 1835 Declaration of Independence and Te Tiriti o Waitangi 1840, Unsettled Bliss offers a clear explanation of settler occupation, its impact on indigenous land in Aotearoa, and the lasting consequences. However,...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
The Origins of an Experimental Society
In this major work, one of our leading historians offers a new account of the origins of New Zealand: how Pākehā settlers—nurtured on Enlightenment thought and evangelical humanitarianism—encountered Māori, and how the two peoples together developed a distinctively experimental society. With James Cook’s arrival in 1769 and the subsequent colonisation, New Zealand became one of the few post-Enlightenment experiments in...Hardback$18300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Protest!
A selected history of the protests in New Zealand that shape modern day Aotearoa, starting with the early 1800s, through to anti-nuclear and land rights. Mandy Hager looks at the background, the structure of the protest and how it affected attitudes. Includes a brief look at the Pacific Islands claims for independence.Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Going Home
You don't choose a time and place to fall in love. Fate always chooses for you. When Ronnie McIlroy volunteers to spend twelve months nursing in a South Vietnamese hospital, she's ill-prepared for a poverty-stricken country at war. Neither weak nor faint-hearted, she's way out of her comfort zone. American pilot, Joseph Hunter Jr, is on his second tour of...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
The Nam Shadow
From the author of the bestselling novel The Nam Legacy comes The Nam Shadow. To carefree, naive, young soldier Terry Edwards, life’s an adventure. But how easy is it to cope with the extreme fear and intense emotions that come with the war in Vietnam, when you know life balances on the accuracy of a bullet in meeting its target?...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
New Zealand Place Names
From Aotearoa to Zalatown, Whanganui to Whangarei, Cape Reinga/Te Rerenga Wairua to Bluff, New Zealand Place Names is a treasure trove of names for locals and visitors alike. This attractive and portable paperback gives updated definitions for over 850 names, including their history, origin, meanings, and curiosities. It features maps, glossaries, and appendices on prolific namers, great controversies, and guidance...Paperback$7900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Going by Train
Railways played a pivotal part in the development of New Zealand’s economy, towns and cities, and helped shape a distinctive culture. This is a comprehensive account of our railways story, from the earliest days of the colony, through rail’s growth and golden days, slow decline and recent resurgence. Going by Train details New Zealand’s railway development from its beginnings to...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
We Came from Hamburg
It is Hamburg, 1920. Abruptly, Erna leaves her marriage and her three daughters, and disappears from the family. No one speaks of her again. One by one, the other members of the Simon family begin to disappear, with death from natural causes and then as a response to what is happening in Germany with the rise of the Third Reich....Paperback$2500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Voices of Gallipoli
In the 1980s, Maurice Shadbolt began to research New Zealand's part in the tragic Gallipoli campaign of 1915—research which was to lead to his stage play Once on Chunuk Bair, a television documentary, and this book Voices of Gallipoli. Voices of Gallipoli is compelling testimony to a pilgrimage which began and ended with visits to Turkey's haunted Gallipoli peninsula where...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Tuai
In early 1817, Tuai, a young Ngare Raumati chief from the Bay of Islands, set off for England. He was one of a number of Māori who, after encountering European explorers, traders, and missionaries in New Zealand, seized opportunities to travel beyond their familiar shores to Australia, England, and Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. They sought...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week-
Titus Angus White & the Maori Captives on Waitemata Harbour 1863/4
In November 1863, at the battle of Rangiriri, over 180 Māori defenders were taken prisoner and marched up the Great South Road to Otahuhu, from where they were transferred onto the Waitematā Harbour. There, they were held captive on the prison ship Marion for nearly eight months, supervised by their bilingual Pākehā Superintendent, Titus Angus White. He was also sent...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week -
This Pakeha Life
This book is about my making sense here, of my becoming and being Pakeha. Every Pakeha becomes a Pakeha in their own way, finding her or his own meaning for that Maori word. This is the story of what it means to me. I have written this book for Pakeha—and other New Zealanders—curious about their sense of identity and about...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week -
The Women's Suffrage Petition | Te Petihana Whakamana Poti Wahine, 1893
In 1893, New Zealand became the first country in the world with universal suffrage: all New Zealand women now had the right to vote. This achievement owed much to an extraordinary document: the 1893 Women's Suffrage Petition. Over 270 metres long, with the signatures of some 24,000 women (and at least twenty men), the Suffrage Petition represented the culmination of...Hardback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week 
The Spirit of a Place
Hidden in the centre of a busy and fast-growing city lies an oasis of calm, a picture-perfect house surrounded by lush, well-tended gardens. Push open the wooden gate and find yourself transported to another world, into a slice of living history carefully preserved for nearly two centuries... The Elms Te Papa Tauranga is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most important...Paperback$6000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
The Political Years
"When I entered Parliament in 1975, I joined a very small club: although women in New Zealand won the right to vote in 1893, only a tiny handful had been Members of Parliament in the hundred or so years that followed. I was number 15!" In 1975, Marilyn Waring was elected to the New Zealand Parliament as the MP for...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
The English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi
This exceptional analysis of the English text of The Treaty of Waitangi represents a major reassessment in our understanding of this foundational document. Historian and lawyer Ned Fletcher calls upon a wealth of archival sources and years of research to provide important new insights into how and why the Treaty was signed, and why ultimately it was not honoured. Exploring...Hardback$6999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
The Dark Island
From 1906 to 1925, Quail Island was the site of New Zealand's leprosy colony. The colony began by accident, as it were, after the discovery of a leprosy sufferer in Christchurch. As further patients arrived from across the country, it grew into a controversial and troubled institution—an embarrassment to the Health Department, an object of pity to a few, and...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Te Motunui Epa
This is a story about the power of art to help us find a way through the darkness. It is about how art can bring out the best in us, and the worst. The artworks in question are five wooden panels carved in the late 1700s by relatives in Taranaki. Commissioned, created, mounted, dismantled, hidden, found, sold, smuggled, on-sold, advertised...Hardback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Te Hahi Mihinare | The Maori Anglican Church
This ground-breaking book explores the emergence of Te Hahi Mihinare - the Maori Anglican Church. Anglicanism, brought to New Zealand by English missionaries in 1814, was made widely known by Maori evangelists, as iwi adapted the religion to make it their own. The ways in which Mihinare (Maori Anglicans) engaged with the settler Anglican Church in New Zealand and created...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Te Ao Hurihuri
Te Ao Hurihuri: The Changing World shows Māori engaged energetically in building and rebuilding their communities through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as Crown policies re-oriented from the acquisition of Māori land to its development. Māori held fiercely to iwi-specific connectedness, community organisation, and te reo me ōna tikanga (the language and its customs). New kinds of Māori institutions released...Paperback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Te Ao Hou New World 1820-1920
Te Ao Hou: The New World takes up the increasingly complex history of Māori entwined with Pākehā newcomers from about 1830. As the new world unfolded, Māori independence was hotly contested; Māori held as tightly as they could to their authority over the land, while the Crown sought to loosen it. War broke out just as the numbers of Pākehā...Paperback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Tangata Ngai Tahu / People of Ngai Tahu
Mo tatou, a, mo ka uri a muri ake nei. For us and our children after us. Tangata Ngai Tahu, Volume Two remembers and celebrates the rich and diverse lives of the people of Ngai Tahu. Spanning time, geography, and kaupapa, some fifty biographies bring Ngai Tahu history into the present. The people in the book have contributed to their...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week-
Tangata Ngai Tahu / People of Ngai Tahu
Mo tatou, a, mo ka uri a muri ake nei. For us and our children after us. Tangata Ngai Tahu, Volume Two remembers and celebrates the rich and diverse lives of the people of Ngai Tahu. Spanning time, geography and kaupapa, some fifty biographies bring Ngai Tahu history into the present. The people in the book have contributed to their...Hardback$6999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week 
Stonehenge Aotearoa: The Complete Guide
This complete guide to a unique New Zealand attraction—a modern version of England's 4,000-year old Stonehenge—encourages a deeper appreciation of science while revealing captivating links between astronomy, archaeology, anthropology, history, and the social sciences. Readers will discover how Stonehenge Aotearoa: The Complete Guide serves as an educational and cultural bridge, offering insights into both the mysteries of the ancient world...Paperback$2100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Rugby League In New Zealand
This is the history of a sport told through its communities. Rugby League in New Zealand: A People's History tells the story of a game and its supporters thriving against the odds. Beginning with the game's introduction to the country in 1907, Ryan Bodman reveals the deep-rooted connections between rugby league's development and the evolving cultural fabric of New Zealand....Paperback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week-
Playing for Both Sides
For novelist Stephanie Johnson, her relationship with Australia and Australians has been an ambivalent one. She has lived there for periods in her life, and her first book, a collection of short stories, was actually published in Australia. She was described then as a young Australian writer, something she says she agreed to 'for reasons that are complex and some...Paperback$2000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week 
Panguru and the City Kainga Tahi, Kainga Rua
Travelling from Hokianga to Auckland in the middle decades of the twentieth century, the people of Panguru established themselves in the workplaces, suburbs, churches and schools of the city. Melissa Matutina Williams writes from the heart of these communities. The daughter of a Panguru family growing up in Auckland, she writes a perceptive account of urban migration through the stories...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Pakeha Settlements in a Maori World
Pakeha Settlements in a Maori World offers a vivid account of early European experience in these islands, through material evidence offered by the archaeological record. As European exploration in the 1770s gave way to sealing, whaling, and timber-felling, Pakeha visitors first became sojourners in small, remote camps, then settlers scattered around the coast. Over time, mission stations were established, alongside...Paperback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week-
He Ringatoi O Nga Tupuna
Isaac Coates was an Englishman who lived in Wellington and Nelson between 1841 and 1845. During that time, he painted watercolour portraits of 58 Māori from Nelson, Marlborough, Wellington, Waikanae, and Kapiti. Some of these portraits have been well-known for nearly 180 years, although their creator was not definitively identified until 2000. The discovery in 2007 of a Coates book...Hardback$7999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Fit to Fight
What do Colin Meads and Carmen have in common? Or Barry Brickell, Jim Bolger, John Hawkesby, Paul Reeves, and Witi Ihimaera? They all took part in compulsory military training (CMT). Just four years after the greatest war the planet had witnessed, New Zealand thought it was going to have to do it all again. As the Cold War brewed over...Hardback$7499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week-
Eddie Norman and 25 Battalion
When World War Two broke out, three theological students left their college in Auckland to the sound of bagpipes and volunteered to fight. Eddie Norman, aged 22 from Hawke's Bay, was one of them. A natural leader, his first experience of action was at El Alamein in 1942 as a platoon commander, and during the Italian campaign he quickly rose...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week 
Dispatches From Continent Seven: An Anthology Of Antarctic Science
Since British explorer James Cook first circumnavigated Antarctica in the late 18th century, the white continent has exerted a powerful attraction. There is no permanent human habitation, and no mercy from the raw, relentless elements, yet for nearly 200 years explorers and scientists have been drawn to work and sometimes risk their lives here. Rebecca Priestley's landmark anthology, Dispatches From...Paperback$5500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week-
Days of Darkness
The narrative of the Parihaka community sheds light on a critical period in Aotearoa's colonial past. As the government seized their land, Maori communities across the region engaged in non-violent resistance, with Parihaka emerging as a powerful symbol of defiance under the leadership of Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kakahi. Rather than a history of Parihaka itself, Hazel Riseborough's...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
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