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  • No Idle Rich

    The Wealthy in Canterbury and Otago 1840-1914

    by Jim McAloon ...
    Wealth and power in a colonial society is the subject of this book. It is a detailed study of the richest settlers in southern New Zealand, where the country's earliest fortunes were made, mostly by pastoral farmers and financiers. Who where the rich? Not born gentlemen, the author shows, but astute and innovative capitalists, generally from relatively humble origins, Drawing on innovative ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unpacking the Kists

    The Scots in New Zealand

    Series Book 19 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History
    Historians have suggested that Scottish influences are more pervasive in New Zealand than in any other country outside Scotland, yet curiously New Zealand's Scots migrants have previously attracted only limited attention. A thorough and interdisciplinary work, Unpacking the Kists is the first in-depth study of New Zealand's Scots migrants and their impact on an evolving settler society.The authors ... Read more

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  • Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady

    The true story of bushrangers Frederick Ward and Mary Ann Bugg

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  • Crack Hardy

    From Gallipoli to Flanders to the Somme, The True Story of Three Australian Brothers at War

    Dando-Collins adroitly interweaves a compelling family history with the broader canvas of the Anzacs. Crack Hardy is a fine and important book.This is the true story of three Australian soldiers, the Searle brothers. One brother was killed at Gallipoli, another on the Western Front. One came home a decorated hero. Viv, a gifted poet who was planning to be a clergyman before the war, became a ... Read more

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  • Fairness and Freedom:A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States

    A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States

    Fairness and Freedom compares the history of two open societies--New Zealand and the United States--with much in common. Both have democratic polities, mixed-enterprise economies, individuated societies, pluralist cultures, and a deep concern for human rights and the rule of law. But all of these elements take different forms, because constellations of value are far apart. The dream of living free ... Read more

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  • Fifteen Young Men

    Australia's Untold Football Tragedy

    by Paul Kennedy ...
    Fifteen Young Men is the true story of a doomed adventure.Few people know an Australian football team drowned in 1892.Yet the boat disaster still ranks alongside the Manchester United plane crash (1958) as one of the world’s greatest sporting tragedies. Lost were fifteen men and boys from one town - brothers, fathers, sons, uncles and best mates – ‘youths that might have made the best colonists ... Read more

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  • Australia's Birthstain

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  • The Savage Shore

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    by Graham Seal ...
    For centuries before the arrival in Australia of Captain Cook and the so-called First Fleet in 1788, intrepid seafaring explorers had been searching, with varied results, for the fabled “Great Southland.” In this enthralling history of early discovery, Graham Seal offers breathtaking tales of shipwrecks, perilous landings, and Aboriginal encounters with the more than three hundred Europeans who ... Read more

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  • Convincing Ground

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  • The Letters of Rachel Henning

    Set in the mid 1850s, the story of Rachel Henning's voyage to Australia is told through the letters she writes to family and friends.Rachel Henning (1826–1914) was born in England. In 1854 she went to Australia, but returned to England in 1856 due to homesickness and the hot climate. However, in 1861, she returned to Australia where she settled permanently. She first lived with her brother and ... Read more

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  • Whitefella Jump Up

    The Shortest Way to Nationhood; Quarterly Essay 11

    Series Book 11 - Quarterly Essay
    In Whitefella Jump Up, Germaine Greer suggests that embracing Aboriginality is the only way Australia can fully imagine itself as a nation. In a wide-ranging essay she looks at the interdependence of black and white and suggests not how the Aborigine question may be settled but how a sense of being Aboriginal might save the soul of Australia.In a sweeping and magisterial essay, touching on ... Read more

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