Australasian & Pacific History
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Precarity
Massey University PressOriginal price £30.99Current price £26.99| /Leading UK economist Guy Standing has referred to the precariat as a class-in-the-making. The precariat are our fellow citizens be they poor, eld...
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Prison Diary of A C Barrington
Otago University Press (NZ)£17.95| /A C (Archie) Barrington was a leading New Zealand pacifist during World War II. Incarcerated in Mount Crawford Prison for his beliefs in 1941, he k...
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Promises Promises
Massey University PressOriginal price £46.99Current price £40.99| /A lively history of political advertising in New Zealand, from the first election of the modern era in 1939 to today. Brimming with political-party...
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Pushing Boundaries
Otago University Press (NZ)£19.95| /We know a lot about the early missionaries who came to New Zealand from 1814 and how Christianity developed through their complex interactions with...
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Redfern
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£26.99| /In the 1970s, Redfern, an inner-city suburb of metropolitan Sydney, became the epicentre for Aboriginal intellectuals and ambitious young radicals....
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Remembering and Becoming
Otago University Press£21.99| /Remembering and Becoming: Oral history in Aotearoa New Zealand investigates how oral history enriches our understanding of Aotearoa New Zealand’s p...
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Required Reading
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /This book examines for the first time what students have read and studied in the disciplines of English and literary studies at Australian schools ...
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Respectable Radicals
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /For much of the twentieth century, the National Council of Women of Australia was the peak body representing women to government in Australia, and ...
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Rushing for Gold
Otago University Press (NZ)£19.95| /This is the first book to take a trans-Tasman look at the nineteenth-century phenomenon that was the gold rushes in Australia and New Zealand. It e...
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Save Our Sons
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /Save Our Sons tells for the first time the full story of the Save Our Sons movement of Australian women who banded together to oppose conscription ...
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Scenic Playground
Te Papa Press£61.99| /This lavish book explores the story behind the promotion of New Zealand's mountains through posters, advertisements, hand-coloured photos and mor...
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Sea Edge
Oratia Books£57.99| /The past and present of Aucklands waterfront come alive in this superbly illustrated, sumptuously produced hardback. Building on a lifetime connec...
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Silences & Secrets
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /The Weintraubs Syncopators, international musical celebrities of the 1930s, embarked on a four-year journey across Europe, Russia and the Far East ...
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Sisters Crossing Boundaries
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£94.99| /The last third of the 19th century witnessed a considerable increase in the active participation of women in the various Christian missions. Kathar...
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Slippery Jim or Patriotic Statesman?
Otago University Press (NZ)£23.00| /This is a biography of one of New Zealands most colourful and persuasive politicians. When James Macandrew arrived in Dunedin from Scotland in 185...
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Slow Catastrophes
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /Living with drought is one of the biggest issues of our times. Climate change scenarios suggest that in the next fifty years global warming will in...
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St Joseph's Island
ATF Press£29.99| /There has been little written about Tenison Woods who as a significant figure in Australian Catholic Church life at the time of St Mary Mackillop, ...
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Standing My Ground
Otago University Press (NZ)£19.95| /For over five decades, Alan Mark has been a voice for conservation in New Zealand. From his call in the 1960s for the establishment of tussock-gras...
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Subtle Moments
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /Bruce Grant was raised in outback Western Australia but lived and worked at or near the centre of power in Australia for several decades, as journa...
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Sunday Best
Massey University Press£42.99| /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 Chr...
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Tūrangawaewae
Massey University Press£38.99| /What is a New Zealander? What does it mean to be a citizen of or a resident in this country? How do we understand what makes New Zealand complex, a...
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Tangata o le Moana
Te Papa Press£61.99| /This richly illustrated history tells the fascinating story of Pacific people and their relationships with, and contributions to, New Zealand socie...
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Tatau
Te Papa Press£57.99| /The Sāmoan Islands are virtually unique in that tattooing has been continuously practised with indigenous techniques: the design of the full male t...
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Te Ara
Libro International (NZ)£15.99| /From one of the leading Māori scholars of his generation and one of our greatest photographers comes this beautifully illustrated work that serves ...
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Te Ara (German Edition)
Oratia Books£16.99| /Text in English, Māori & German. Stunning photographs and insightful text provide a concise overview of the past, present and future for Māori....
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Te Arawa
Oratia Books£73.99| /Published in 1967, "Te Arawa" was the major work by distinguished Rotorua historian, the late Don Stafford. This sumptuous new edition reproduces t...
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The "Easy" Boys: The Story of a Bomber Command Aircrew in World War II
Schiffer Military£31.99| /This book is based on the World War II diaries of Royal Australian Air Force Flying Officer Reg Heffron. The reader follows Heffron through initial...
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The Arctic Journals of John Rae
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /Scottish doctor and explorer John Rae is a controversial figure in the history of the Arctic. He began his career with the Hudson's Bay Company as ...
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The Battlefield of Imperishable Memory
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /The Ypres salient was the favourite battle ground of the devil and his minions wrote one returned serviceman after the First World War. Few who f...
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The Cost of War
Sydney University Press£26.99| /War has shaped Australian society profoundly. When we commemorate the sacrifices of the Anzacs, we rightly celebrate their bravery, but we do not a...
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The Expatriate Myth
Otago University Press (NZ)£17.95| /Many New Zealand writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century travelled extensively or lived overseas for a time, and they often led ...
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The Fatal Lure of Politics
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /A new and radically different biography of the Australian-born archaeologist and prehistorian, Vere Gordon Childe (1892-1957). In his early life he...
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The Forgotten Wars
Oratia Books£34.99| /Distinguished author and lawyer Ron Crosby rewrites his seminal The Musket Wars on a thematic basis, simplifying it to a concise work full of maps ...
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The Fountain of Public Prosperity
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /The official religion brought to Australia with the First Fleet was Evangelical Christianity, the vital religion then shaping public policy throu...
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The Good Country
Monash University Publishing£19.99| /Beyond the generalisations of national and colonial history, what can we know about how Aboriginal nations interacted with the British settlers who...
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The Home Front
Massey University Press£46.99| /A fresh new look at a young nation at war. The Great War is now typically regarded as senseless and futile, but most New Zealanders at the time con...
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The Land Girls
Otago University Press (NZ)£17.95| /This book tells the story of New Zealand's land girls during the Second World War. Drawing on the oral histories of 130 women and the written inter...
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The Lives of Colonial Objects
Otago University Press (NZ)£22.50| /The Lives of Colonial Objects is a sumptuously illustrated and highly readable book about things, and the stories that unfold when we start to inve...
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The Maori Meeting House
Te Papa Press£38.99| /Enter and explore the powerful, ancestral world of the whare whakairo, or Māori meeting house, with this engaging illustrated guide. Richly illustr...
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The Pavlova Story
Otago University Press (NZ)£17.95| /While Australians and New Zealanders have long debated which country invented the pavlova (a large meringue dessert cake said to emulate the lightn...
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This Land Our Water
ATF Press£53.99| /The book opens with a biography by Peter's wife, the Reverend Vicky Cullen, offering the reader an insight into Peter's personal life and the influ...
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Tooth and Veil
Massey University PressOriginal price £41.99Current price £38.99| /In 1921, the School Dental Service was established. A social experiment unique to New Zealand, it was lauded around the world and later modelled in...
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Torres Strait Islander Women & the Pacific War
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£21.99| /Between 1942 and 1945, Torres Strait Islander women experienced the fears and uncertainties of living virtually on Australia's front line during th...
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Traditional Lifeways of the Southern Maori
Otago University Press£30.00| /Journalist James Herries Beattie recorded southern Maori history for almost fifty years and produced many popular books and pamphlets. Traditional ...
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Unearthly Landscapes
Otago University Press (NZ)£22.50| /By the nineteenth century the ancient urban churchyards of Britain, burdened with generations of dead, were unable to cope with rising numbers of ...
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Unwritten Histories
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£15.99| /In this witty and satirical revisiting of Australia's heroic past, Craig Cormick rediscovers the contributions of indigenous Australians that have ...
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Up from the Underworld
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /Why was it that a small mining community in Victoria on the margin of Australian coal mining, with a strong union organisation, was able to exert a...
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Urban Maori
Oratia Books£30.99| /The post-1945 migration to the cities by Māori transformed Aotearoa New Zealand forever. Before the Second World War 90% of Māori lived in rural tr...
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