Two Great New Zealanders

Author : David Hackett Fischer
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199832706
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fairness and Freedom written by David Hackett Fischer and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-02-10 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores why the political similarities between New Zealand and the United States--including democratic politics, mixed-enterprise economies, a deep concern for human rights and the rule of law and more--have taken on different forms.

Author : Vincent O'Malley
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
ISBN 13 : 192727754X
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great War for New Zealand written by Vincent O'Malley and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning nearly two centuries from first contact through to settlement and apology, ​this major work focuses on the human impact of the war in the Waikato, its origins and aftermath.

Author : Rosalind James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988761919
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Good Friends written by Rosalind James and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate Lamonica travels to New Zealand to escape a stalker ex-boyfriend and live with her friend Hannah while she puts her life back together. She didn't count on falling for Koti James, a showboating rugby player of Maori descent.

Author : John Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781872970455
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Great New Zealanders written by John Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inter-tribal warfare was a central feature of Maori culture but, as the carnage grew with the coming of the musket, many northern chiefs became disillusioned with the constant demands of utu and moved away from their old habits to the ways of peace as advocated by the missionaries. Tamati Waka Nene was one of them and he made the keynote speech at Waitangi, urging the chiefs to sign the Treaty as a way of ending the killing. Apirana Ngata grew up in two cultures and, as an M. P. and Government minister, became a spokesman for Maori, seeking to preserve their worthwhile traditions while rejecting the more harmful like witchcraft. The examples of these two men show a way ahead for 21st century New Zealand - away from separatism and the glorification of the deeds of long dead warrior chiefs, and towards the one nation that was envisaged in the Treaty of Waitangi."--From publisher.

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 : 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 : James Belich
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 1742288227
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders From Polynesian written by James Belich and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new paperback reprint of this best-selling and ground-breaking history. When first published in 1996 Making Peoples was hailed as redefining New Zealand history. It was undoubtedly the most important work of New Zealand history since Keith Sinclair's classic A History of New Zealand.Making Peoples covers the period from first settlement to the end of the nineteenth century. Part one covers Polynesian background, Maori settlement and pre-contact history. Part two looks at Maori-European relations to 1900. Part three discusses Pakeha colonisation and settlement.James Belich's Making Peoples is a major work which reshapes our understanding of New Zealand history, challenges traditional views and debunks many myths, while also recognising the value of myths as historical forces. Many of its assertions are new and controversial.

Author : Robert McNab
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Records of New Zealand written by Robert McNab and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert McNab (1864- ed)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 902 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Records of New Zealand written by Robert McNab (1864- ed) and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 9780345466143
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slipping Into Paradise written by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tribute to the author's adopted home in New Zealand describes his decision to relocate to a lush bay area near Auckland, where his family and he thrived in the wake of its natural flora and fauna, dolphin-filled waters, and wildlife. By the author of The Pig Who Sang to the Moon.