Australasian & Pacific History
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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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Vagabond Papers
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /Australian life has never had a chronicler quite like the Vagabond. Renowned as journalist and eminently unconventional character', he suffered ex...
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Vastly Ingenious
Otago University Press (NZ)£22.50| /Reflecting in 1769 on the manners and customs of the South Sea islands, Joseph Banks remarked that 'in every expedient for taking fish they are vas...
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Where is Dr Leichhardt?
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /The vast deserts of Outback Australia hold many secrets, but there is one great mystery which stands out among all others the mystery of the lost L...
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While the Billy Boils
Sydney University Press£26.99| /Fifty-two of Henry Lawson's stories and sketches that he had first published in newspapers and magazines from 1888 onwards were gathered in his col...
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White Ghosts, Yellow Peril
Otago University Press (NZ)£22.50| /White Ghosts, Yellow Peril is the first book ever to explore all sides of the relationship between China and New Zealand and their peoples during t...
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Windows on a Women's World
Otago University Press£29.50| /The first 10 Dominican sisters arrived in Dunedin in 1871. The congregation expanded rapidly, establishing schools throughout Otago and Southland, ...
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Winning for Women
Monash University Publishing£19.99| /What was it like to be involved in the heady days of second wave feminism in Australia, when the role of women at home and at work changed decisi...
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Wiremu Pere
Libro International (NZ)£69.99| /Wiremu Pere (Wi Pere) lived from 1837 to 1915, leading his tribes of Rongowhakaata and Te Aitanga a Mahaki through some of the most turbulent chapt...
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Women Mean Business
Otago University Press (NZ)£23.00| /From Kaitaia in Northland to Oban on Stewart Island, New Zealands nineteenth-century towns were full of entrepreneurial women. Contrary to what we...
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Working Lives c. 1900
Otago University Press (NZ)£22.50| /For the men and women of the skilled trades in the early 20th century, the skills and knowledge of their respective crafts were a source of identit...
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Yijarni
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£26.99| /On 23 August 1966, approximately 200 Gurindji stockmen and their families walked off Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory, protesting agains...
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