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  • Healing Our History 3rd Edition

    by Robert Consedine, Joanna Consedine ...
    A powerful and humane book, Healing Our History eschews rhetoric and cuts to the true story of race relations in New Zealand. The Treaty of Waitangi is the most important document in New Zealand's history. Current Treaty issues and Maori/Pakeha relationships can only be understood within the wider story of New Zealand. As we understand and honour our history, we can acknowledge the need for ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

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  • The Education of Henry Adams

    by Henry Adams ...
    This carefully crafted ebook: "The Education of Henry Adams" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Henry Adams (1838-1918) was a member of the political family founded by John Adams during the American Revolution. While his ambitions were literary and historical (his major work is a massive history of the United States in the age of Jefferson), he was not ... Read more

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  • This Horrid Practice

    by Paul Moon ...
    'Though stronger evidence of this horrid practice prevailing among the inhabitants of this coast will scarcely be required, we have still stronger to give.' - Captain James Cook This Horrid Practice uncovers an unexplored taboo of New Zealand history - the widespread practice of cannibalism in pre-European Maori society. Until now, many historians have tried to avoid it and many Maori have ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Gallipoli

    The battlefield guide

    by Mat McLachlan ...
    The essential travel companion for anyone visiting Gallipoli.Each year, thousands of Australians visit Gallipoli to pay homage and see where their forebears fought, suffered and died. Anzac Cove, Quinn's Post, Lone Pine - the iconic places where our national legend was forged.In this essential and authoritative guide, practical information is combined with historical detail, alongside revealing ... Read more

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  • The Customs And Traditions Of The Aboriginal Natives Of North Western Australia

    by John G. Withnell ...
    The Customs And Traditions Of The Aboriginal Natives Of North Western Australiaby John G. WithnellA short amateur ethnography of the Northwestern Aborigines, primarily of historical interest.The object of this work is to preserve, before civilization has made them obsolete, the traditions and customs of the aboriginal natives of the North-West of Western Australia-particularly those of the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Blood Revenge

    Murder on the Hawkesbury 1799

    by Stewart, Lyn ...
    Blood Revenge examines the first time that white men were held to account in a criminal court of New South Wales for killing Australian Aborigines. It happened in 1799, just 11 years after the New South Wales colony began. This book answers the disturbing question: Why were five men found guilty of killing two Aborigines—yet they were never punished? The story lays bare the nature of black-white ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Show of Justice

    Racial Amalgamation in Nineteenth Century New Zealand

    by Alan Ward ...
    First published in 1974, A Show of Justice remains the essential and definitive text on official policies towards the Māori people in the nineteenth century. Professor Ward shows how an understanding of the past explains why Māori today, formally equal under the law, continue having to demand rights assured under the Treaty of Waitangi and why major issues have yet to be recognised and addressed. ... Read more

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  • In/visible Sight

    The Mixed-Descent Families of Southern New Zealand

    by Angela Wanhalla ...
    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

    $8.69 USD

  • Australia's Immigrants

    1788-1988

    by Geoffrey Sherington ...
    'We're an anomaly as a European country in this part of the world. It is inevitable in my view that Australia will become a Eurasian country over the next century or two. I happen to think that's desirable. This means we are becoming part of the mainstream of this region.' - Governor-General Bill HaydenMany Australians may dispute Bill Hayden's vision of the future; none can ignore it. As ... Read more

    $10.09 USD

  • Panguru and the City: Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua

    An Urban Migration History

    by Melissa Matutina Williams ...
    Travelling from Hokianga to Auckland in the middle decades of the twentieth century, the people of Panguru established themselves in the workplaces, suburbs, churches and schools of the city. Melissa Matutina Williams writes from the heart of these communities. The daughter of a Panguru family growing up in Auckland, she writes a perceptive account of urban migration through the stories of the ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • A Land Fit for Heroines

    Stories of Pioneering Women on Soldier Settler Blocks

    by Barbara Pillans ...
    This book documents the lives of twenty-one women on soldier settler blocks in New South Wales after World War II. Their stories relate how they came to live on virtually virgin land and lived in tents and sheds with no electricity and no running water. They established their homes and worked side by side with their husbands on the farms. At the same time, they brought up their children far from ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Raffle Gods

    An Aussie bloke goes bush, to shake off the stress of city life.

    by Dan Holliday ...
    When Beastly nearly kills a friend, he knows it is time to take a rest from his job, as a Kings Cross night club bouncer, and get out of town for a while.Travel with Beastly as he heads out bush to find his sense of self again.In a sense, a 'coming of age' story, with a difference, set in Australia in the 70s or 80s, you will find yourself drawn in from the first page!Warm and philosophical, full ... Read more

    $4.99 USD