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“jared davidson”

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  • Dead Letters

    Censorship and subversion in New Zealand 1914–1920

    by Jared Davidson ...
    Uncover the hidden stories of wartime New Zealand. In 1918, a miner's letter to his sweetheart was intercepted, leading to his imprisonment. This is just one of the many remarkable stories revealed in Dead Letters, a deep dive into the world of wartime censorship and subversion in New Zealand.Using previously unseen confiscated mail, Jared Davidson unveils the lives of ordinary people caught in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sewing Freedom

    Philip Josephs, Transnationalism & Early New Zealand Anarchism

    by Jared Davidson ...
    Sewing Freedom is the first in-depth study of anarchism in New Zealand during the turbulent years of the early 20th century-a time of wildcat strikes, industrial warfare, and a radical working class counter-culture. Interweaving biography, cultural history, and an array of archival sources, this engaging account unravels the anarchist-cum-bomber stereotype by piecing together the life of Philip ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blood and Dirt

    Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand

    by Jared Davidson ...
    Picture, for a minute, every artwork of colonial New Zealand you can think of. Now add a chain gang. Hard-labour men guarded by other men with guns. Men moving heavy metal. Men picking at the earth. Over and over again. This was the reality of nineteenth-century New Zealand.Forced labour haunts the streets we walk today and the spaces we take for granted. The unfree work of prisoners has shaped ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Introducing Te Tiriti o Waitangi

    Edited by Jared Davidson ...
    In 1840, over 500 Māori leaders put their names to a significant new document: Te Tiriti o Waitangi or the Treaty of Waitangi. Through their signatures, moko or marks they were making an agreement with the British Crown. At stake was the sovereignty of the country, the governance of the land. The history of this agreement is a remarkable one, told here in rich and compelling detail. ... Read more

    $3.02 USD

  • Introducing He Whakaputanga

    Edited by Jared Davidson ...
    He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni/The Declaration of Independence of New Zealand was signed by fifty-two rangatira from 1835 to 1839. It was a powerful assertion of mana and rangatiratanga, made after decades of Māori and European encounters that had been steadily expanding both within Aotearoa New Zealand and elsewhere on the globe as Māori travelled abroad. As rangatira reached out ... Read more

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  • Introducing The Women's Suffrage Petition

    Edited by Jared Davidson ...
    In 1893 New Zealand became the first country in the world with universal suffrage: all New Zealand women now had the right to vote. This achievement owed much to an extraordinary document: the 1893 Women’s Suffrage Petition. Over 270 metres long, with the signatures of some 24,000 women (and at least twenty men), the Suffrage Petition represents the culmination of many years of campaigning by ... Read more

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  • The History of a Riot

    by Jared Davidson ...
    'Class lines between settlers and labourers had been drawn...What follows is a microhistory of collective revolt.'In 1843, the New Zealand Company settlement of Nelson was rocked by the revolt of its emigrant labourers. Over 70 gang-men and their wives collectively resisted their poor working conditions through petitions, strikes and, ultimately, violence. Yet this pivotal struggle went on to be ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Tikanga Maori (Revised Edition)

    Living By Maori Values

    by Hirini Mead ...
    Tikanga Māori is the authoritative and accessible introduction to understanding the correct Māori ways of doing things as they were done in the past, as they are done in the present – and as they may yet be. In this revised edition, Hirini Mead has added an extensive new chapter on mana whenua, mana moana, Māori authority over land and ocean, and the different interpretations and applications of ... Read more

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  • The Great Divide

    The Story of New Zealand, and its Treaty

    by Ian Wishart ...
    New Zealand to many is 'Middle Earth', home of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but it was also the last major land mass on the planet to be settled by humans.The country was catapulted kicking and screaming from the stone age to the space age within 200 years of Captain Cook setting foot there...Who really got to New Zealand first? Which version of the Treaty of Waitangi is the most accurate? What ... Read more

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  • The Old-Time Maori

    by Makereti Papakura ...
    A classic account of traditional Māori life in Aotearoa New Zealand, written by Makereti Papakura, a renowned Māori scholar and chieftainess of the Arawa people.Drawing on her intimate cultural knowledge and lived experience, Makereti offers a rare Indigenous perspective on Māori society before widespread European influence. Both scholarly and deeply personal, The Old-Time Maori explores the ... Read more

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  • Tangata Whenua

    A History

    by Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney, Aroha Harris ...
    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 ... Read more

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