People In History N Z

Author : James Belich
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824825171
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Peoples written by James Belich and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2002-02-28 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paper This immensely readable book, full of drama and humor as well as scholarship, is a watershed in the writing of New Zealand history. In making many new assertions and challenging many historical myths, it seeks to reinterpret our approach to the past. Given New Zealand's small population, short history, and great isolation, the history of the archipelago has been saddled with a reputation for mundanity. According to James Belich, however, it is just these characteristics that make New Zealand "a historian's paradise: a laboratory whose isolation, size, and recency is an advantage, in which the grand themes of world history are often played out more rapidly, more separately, and therefore more discernably, than elsewhere." The first of two planned volumes, Making Peoples begins with the Polynesian settlement and its development into the Maori tribes in the eleventh century. It traces the great encounter between independent Maoridom and expanding Europe from 1642 to 1916, including the foundation of the Pakeha, the neo-Europeans of New Zealand, between the 1830s and the 1880s. It describes the forging of a neo-Polynesia and a neo-Britain and the traumatic interaction between them. The author carefully examines the myths and realities that drove the colonialization process and suggests a new "living" version of one of the most critical and controversial documents in New Zealand's history, the Treaty of Waitangi, frequently descibed as New Zealand's Magna Carta. The construction of peoples, Maori and Pakeha, is a recurring theme: the response of each to the great shift from extractive to sustainable economics; their relationship with their Hawaikis, or ancestors, with each other, and with myth. Essential reading for anyone interested in New Zealand history and in the history of new societies in general.

Author : Michael King
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459623754
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin History of New Zealand written by Michael King and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce full democracy. Between those events, and in the century that followed the franchise, the movements and the conflicts of human history have been played out more intensively and more rapidly in New Zealand than anywhere else on Earth. The Penguin History of New Zealand, a new book for a new century, tells that story in all its colour and drama. The narrative that emerges in an inclusive one about men and women, Maori and Pakeha. It shows that British motives in colonising New Zealand were essentially humane; and that Maori, far from being passive victims of a 'fatal impact', coped heroically with colonisation and survived by selectively accepting and adapting what Western technology and culture had to offer. This book, a triumphant fruit of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, was an unprecedented best-seller from the time of its first publication in 2003.

Author : Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781869538132
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People, People, People written by Stevan Eldred-Grigg and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of New Zealand and its people, from 1200 through to 2000. A short, very accessible snapshot of New Zealand's history written with tourists and anyone new to the country in mind.

Author : Atholl Anderson
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
ISBN 13 : 0908321546
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tangata Whenua written by Atholl Anderson and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tangata Whenua: A History presents a rich narrative of the Māori past from ancient origins in South China to the twenty-first century, in a handy paperback format. The authoritative text is drawn directly from the award-winning Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History; the full text of the big hardback is available in a reader-friendly edition, ideal for students and for bedtime reading, and a perfect gift for those whose budgets do not stretch to the illustrated edition. Maps and diagrams complement the text, along with a full set of references and the important statistical appendix. Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History was published to widespread acclaim in late 2014. This magnificent history has featured regularly in the award lists: winner of the 2015 Royal Society Science Book Prize, shortlisted for the international Ernest Scott Prize, winner of the Te Kōrero o Mua (History) Award at the Ngā Kupu ora Aotearoa Māori Book Awards, and Gold in the Pride in Print Awards. The importance of this history to New Zealand cannot be overstated. Māori leaders emphatically endorsed the book, as have reviewers and younger commentators. They speak of the way Tangata Whenua draws together different strands of knowledge – from historical research through archaeology and science to oral tradition. They remark on the contribution this book makes to evolving knowledge, describing it as ‘a canvas to paint the future on’. And many comment on the contribution it makes to the growth of understanding between the people of this country.

Author : James Belich
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Peoples written by James Belich and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines Maori and Pakeha backgrounds, Maori settlement and pre-contact history ... re-interprets Maori-European relations from 1642 to the early 1900s ... traces European settlement ... the colonisation ... the colonial economy and society and re-examines the origins of Pakeha" --Jacket.

Author : Jarrod Gilbert
Publisher : Auckland University Press
ISBN 13 : 1775581373
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patched written by Jarrod Gilbert and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than five decades, gangs have played a pivotal role in New Zealand crime life, beginning with the bodgies and widgies of the 1950s. Based on 10 years of gang research, this book chronicles the rise of the Hell's Angels and other bike gangs in the 1960s, the growth of the Mongrel Mob and Black Power in the 1970s, and organized crime during the last decade. With descriptions of such events as the Devil's Henchmen throwing Molotov cocktails at the Epitaph Riders in Christchurch's first gang war and Black Power members surrounding Prime Minister Rob Muldoon at Wellington's Royal Tiger Tavern, it also discusses the significance of colors and class. With accounts from gang members, police, and politicians, this violent and sometimes horrifying book transports its readers to a tough yet revealing part of New Zealand life.

Author : Joseph Romanos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780958245586
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Zealand's Top One Hundred Sports History-makers written by Joseph Romanos and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition of this acclaimed 2005 book contains profiles of the leading 100 people who have shaped New Zealand, and is staggering in its scope. Those profiled range from politicians and inventers to musicians and sports stars

Author : David Skegg
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
ISBN 13 : 1988545552
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Health of the People written by David Skegg and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘My hope and expectation that the Havelock North Drinking Water Inquiry would waken us from our national slumber has not been realised.’ In August 2016, 40 per cent of the residents of Havelock North were struck down by a serious bacterial infection. Eminent medical researcher David Skegg argues that the outbreak highlights weaknesses in our country’s health infrastructure – weaknesses already evident in problems ranging from child nutrition to cancer. New Zealand, Skegg explains, must invest more in public health and find the political will needed to oppose the forces that damage health. Personal health care is important, but we neglect public health at our peril.

Author : Joseph Romanos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780958245562
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Zealand's Top 100 History-makers written by Joseph Romanos and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive NEW ZEALAND'S TOP 100 HISTORY-MAKERS, which profiles the people who have shaped New Zealand, is staggering in its scope. New Zealand's icons, including Edmund Hillary, Kate Sheppard, Jean Batten, Apirana Ngata and Ernest Rutherford are all there. But so, too, are a huge variety of other influential figures - bungy-jumping inventor A J Hackett, John Clarke of Fred Dagg fame, Maori leader Whina Cooper, activist John Minto, film-maker Peter Jackson, musician Dave Dobbyn. The early years of New Zealand's history are well covered, through the stories of such people as Hone Heke, Samuel Marsden, Te Rauparaha and George Grey. But more recent achievers like Neil and Tim Finn, Fred Hollows, Marie Clay and Russell Crowe are included as well. NEW ZEALAND'S TOP 100 HISTORY-MAKERS is brilliantly illustrated and outstandingly-researched. It will be fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in the people who have made New Zealand the country it is, as well as an essential learning resource.

Author : Neill Atkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781775594284
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Today in New Zealand History written by Neill Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 2020-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the Ministry for Culture and Heritage and the Alexander Turnbull Library, this glorious, fully illustrated discovery of New Zealand's key times brings history to life. Each day of the year features a story ranging from the nation-forming to the quirky. Born on this Day boxes scattered throughout provide details on around 100 significant figures.