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Acclaimed historian Matthew Wright explores the evolution of New Zealand's most historically significant document, the Treaty of Waitangi, from its origins to its place in the present day.
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In December 1941, Japan attacked the British Empire and the United States, turning the European war that had raged since 1939 into a global conflict. For a few desperate months during early 1942, the Kiwis faced crisis. Australia had its own threat to face. Britain was stretched ...
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New Zealand's Pakeha origin as a bolt-hole for convicts escaping Australia, a place where former convicts joined whaling and sealing gangs, and where sea captains thumbed their noses at the law, has been quietly forgotten.
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9780143567646 |
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2 July 2012 by Penguin |
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14+ years |
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In Guns and Utu, popular historian Matthew Wright disputes the many mythologies of these wars, examining some of the whys and wherefores of this generation-long culture collision.
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In this lively, well researched and affectionate survey of 100 'vehicles' of all descriptions, historian Matthew Wright takes us on a trip down memory lane, reacquainting us with the way we used to get around.
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The best basic introduction to this important episode in British colonial history; summarizes complex history in simple terms suitable for readers from intermediate age onwards
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- The best basic introduction to this vital history, now in new edition
- Summarises complex history in simple terms suitable for readers from intermediate age onwards
- Established general readership for adults and children 10 and over
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This illustrated history covers the broad sweep of Hawke's Bay's past, from the Maori history of the district to Hawke's Bay's settler era, the highs and lows of the twentieth century with its wars, depressions and booms; and the social transformations of the early twenty-first.
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A lively new illustrated history of the South Island by Matthew Wright, Old South tells a story of triumphs, tragedies and earnest hopes.
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9780143006510 |
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31 August 2009 by Penguin |
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General Audience |
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"The hard-tempered Scot whose policies shaped New Zealand's colonial-age race relations, and gave rise to grievances that echo into the twenty-first century. The government official who used his position to get land for his personal ventures, and provoked war between Maori along ...
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