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  • Past Caring?

    Women, work and emotion

    Uncover the untold stories of women's vital contributions to society through care, work, and emotion. This scholarly work delves into the history of caring in New Zealand, exploring personal narratives and the everyday nature of care across domestic, institutional, and political spaces. It examines the intersection of women's history with family, motherhood, health, welfare, education, and ... Read more

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  • He Reo Wahine

    Maori Women's Voices from the Nineteenth Century

    During the nineteenth century, Maori women produced letters and memoirs, wrote off to newspapers and commissioners, appeared before commissions of enquiry, gave evidence in court cases, and went to the Native Land Court to assert their rights. He Reo Wahine is a bold new introduction to the experience of Maori women in colonial New Zealand through Maori women's own words – the speeches and ... Read more

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  • Raupanga

    Nga Pito Korero o te Pakanga Tuarua no te Hau Kainga

    Edited by Angela Wanhalla ...
    Whakaheke toto tonu ana te iwi Maori ki te Pakanga Tuarua o te ao. I te tuwheratanga o te whawhai nui ka puta noa nga taitama hei tuao ki te Taua Tuarua o Aotearoa. Kua rongo pai te iwi mo nga mahi rongonui a nga tupuna hoia, tae noa ki te Ope Taua 28. Engari, he aha ra nga korero mo te hunga i noho tonu ai ki te kainga?Kei a Raupanga he korero mo te ao Maori i te wa o te Pakanga Tuarua, ara, mo ... Read more

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  • Matters of the Heart

    A History of Interracial Marriage in New Zealand

    From whalers and traders marrying into Maori families in the early 19th century to the growth of interracial marriages in the later 20th, Matters of the Heart unravels the long history of interracial relationships in New Zealand. It encompasses common law marriages and Maori customary marriages, alongside formal arrangements recognized by church and state, and shows how public policy and private ... Read more

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  • In/visible Sight

    The Mixed-Descent Families of Southern New Zealand

    In/visible Sight is a fascinating exploration of a little-known part of our history: the lives of part-Māori, part-Pākehā New Zealanders in the nineteenth century.Focussing on interracial intimacy between Ngāi Tahu and Pākehā settlers, it explores how intermarriage played a key role in shaping colonial encounters. As Ngāi Tahu sought to fight the alienation of their land and protect their natural ... Read more

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  • Te Hau Kainga

    The Maori Home Front during the Second World War

    A transformative account of Māori society during World War II.Te Hau Kāinga unveils the untold stories of the Māori home front during World War II, exploring how this pivotal conflict reshaped Māori communities, culture, and identity. Through vivid narratives and meticulous research, the authors shed light on the challenges and triumphs of Māori whānau as they navigated wartime mobilization, ... Read more

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  • Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters in Asia and the Pacific

    Series series Studies in Migration and Diaspora
    In contrast to much scholarship on cross-cultural encounters, which focuses primarily on contact between indigenous peoples and ’settlers’ or ’sojourners’, this book is concerned with migrant aspects of this phenomenon – whether migrant-migrant or migrant-host encounters – bringing together studies from a variety of perspectives on cross-cultural encounters, their past, and their resonances across ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Of Love and War

    Pacific Brides of World War II

    Series series Studies in Pacific Worlds
    Between 1942 and 1945 more than two million servicemen occupied the southern Pacific theater, the majority of whom were Americans in service with the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. During the occupation, American servicemen married approximately 1,800 women from New Zealand and the island Pacific, creating legal bonds through marriage and through children. Additionally, American ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Indigenous Textual Cultures

    Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire

    As modern European empires expanded, written language was critical to articulations of imperial authority and justifications of conquest. For imperial administrators and thinkers, the non-literacy of “native” societies demonstrated their primitiveness and inability to change. Yet as the contributors to Indigenous Textual Cultures make clear through cases from the Pacific Islands, Australasia, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Mothers' Darlings of the South Pacific

    The Children of Indigenous Women and U.S. Servicemen, World War II

    Over the course of World War II, two million American military personnel occupied bases throughout the South Pacific, leaving behind a human legacy of at least 4,000 children born to indigenous mothers. Based on interviews conducted with many of these American-indigenous children and several of the surviving mothers, Mothers’ Darlings of the South Pacific explores the intimate relationships that ... Read more

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    As Australia became a nation in 1901, no one anticipated that 'Aboriginal affairs' would become an on-going national preoccupation. Not 'dying out' as predicted, Aboriginal numbers recovered and – along with Torres Strait Islanders – they became an articulate presence, aggrieved at colonial authority's interventions into family life and continuing dispossession. Indigenous and Other Australians ... Read more

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    This major work reveals the dark heart of the history of the Stolen Generations in Australia. It shows that, from the earliest times of European colonization, Aboriginal Australians experienced the trauma of loss and separation, as their children were abducted, enslaved, institutionalized, and culturally remodeled. Providing a moving and comprehensive account of this tragic history, this study ... Read more

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