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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