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  • Making a New Land

    Enviromental Histories of New Zealand

    Edited by Eric Pawson, Tom Brooking ...
    Making a New Land presents an interdisciplinary perspective on one of the most rapid and extensive transformations in human history: that which followed Maori and then European colonization of New Zealand's temperate islands. This is a new edition of Environmental Histories of New Zealand, first published in 2002, brimming with new content and fresh insights into the causes and nature of this ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Cultural History of Democracy in the Age of Empire

    Edited by Tom Brooking, Todd M. Thompson ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    This volume surveys democracy broadly as a cultural phenomenon operating in different ways across a very wide range of societies in the nineteenth-century world.In the long nineteenth century, democracy evolved from a contested, maligned conception of government with little concrete expression at the level of the state, to a term widely associated with good governance throughout the diverse ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Richard Seddon: King of God's Own

    King of God's Own

    by Tom Brooking ...
    **2014 Must Read** Otago Daily Times 'The life, the health, the intelligence, and the morals of the nation count for more than riches, and I would rather have this country free from want and squalor and unemployed than the home of multi-millionaires.'—Richard Seddon, 1905 *** Casting a long shadow over New Zealand history, Richard John Seddon, Premier from 1893 to his untimely death in 1906, held ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Unpacking the Kists

    The Scots in New Zealand

    by Brad Patterson, Tom Brooking, Jim McAloon ...
    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

    $103.49 USD

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  • The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen

    Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World

    by Linda Colley ...
    Longlisted for the Cundill History PrizeProfiled in The New YorkerNew York Times Book Review • Editors’ ChoiceVivid and magisterial, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen reconfigures the rise of a modern world through the advent and spread of written constitutions.A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutio... ... Read more

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  • 50 Political Ideas You Really Need to Know

    by Ben Dupre ...
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    At a time of widespread popular cynicism and profound international unease, the need for clarity over the basic concepts of politics has never been greater.The forces of Fundamentalism endanger our Liberty and Security, while government responses to it may pose a basic threat to Justice, Democracy and Human rights. Corruption, War and Tyranny arouse public indignation which is often inflamed by ... Read more

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  • Dreamers and Schemers

    A Political History of Australia

    by Frank Bongiorno ...
    A landmark book - the first full political history of AustraliaIn this compelling and comprehensive work, renowned historian Frank Bongiorno presents a social and cultural history of Australia's political life, from pre-settlement Indigenous systems to the present day.Depicting a wonderful parade of dreamers and schemers, Bongiorno surveys moments of political renewal and sheds fresh light on our ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Palace Letters

    The Queen, the governor-general, and the plot to dismiss Gough Whitlam

    by Professor Jenny Hocking ...
    A political betrayal.A constitutional crisis.A hidden correspondence.Gough Whitlam was a progressive prime minister whose reign from 1972 proved tumultuous after 23 years of conservative government in Australia. After a second election victory in May 1974, when a hostile Senate refused to vote on his 1975 budget, the political deadlock that ensued culminated in Whitlam’s unexpected and deeply ... Read more

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  • Conservatism

    The Fight for a Tradition

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    A fresh and sharp-eyed history of political conservatism from its nineteenth-century origins to today’s hard RightFor two hundred years, conservatism has defied its reputation as a backward-looking creed by confronting and adapting to liberal modernity. By doing so, the Right has won long periods of power and effectively become the dominant tradition in politics. Yet, despite their success, ... Read more

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  • A Legal History for Australia

    by Dr Sarah McKibbin, Libby Connors, Marcus Harmes ...
    This is a contemporary legal history book for Australian law students, written in an engaging style and rich with learning features and illustrations. The writers are a unique combination of talents, bringing together their fields of research and teaching in Australian history, British constitutional history and modern Australian law.The first part provides the social and political contexts for ... Read more

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  • Not So Black and White

    A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics

    by Kenan Malik ...
    Is white privilege real? Does American history begin in 1619 or 1776? Why has left-wing antisemitism grown? How racist is the working class? Who benefits most, when anti-racists speak in racial terms? These very different questions have all emerged from today's heated debates around race, identity and culture. The "culture wars" have generated ferocious argument, but little clarity. Not So Black ... Read more

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