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Collective biographies have been written for Britain's and Australia's Prime Ministers, and for America's Presidents. Until now New Zealand has had no comparable overview.
Based on extensive, careful archival research, interviews with recent Prime Ministers, many of their coll ...
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One of New Zealand's oldest family-owned wineries finished this year's harvest on a high, as they pulled out the wine glasses to celebrate 100 years in the game. Babich Wines, which owns a winery and 300 hectares of vines in Marlborough's Awatere, Waihopai and Wairau valleys, hav ...
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A study of four generations of one of New Zealand's most influential families. Moving from Prussian Poland to the goldfields of Ballarat to bankruptcy in the South Island and then to a growing fortune in beer and liquor 'The Myers' illustrates the country's migrant diversity, cha ...
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As Auckland grew more rapidly than the rest of New Zealand, its city council emerged as the country's premier local authority. In 1989 when the whole of the Auckland isthmus containing 10 local authorities was amalgamated into one, the Mayor of Auckland became the most significan ...
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In this study, Michael Bassett, explores how and why the state became such an active and interventionist player in New Zealand life. It looks at the schemes in which a paternalistic government became involved, especially the extensive social programmes taken for granted by the pe ...
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This is the first major biography of an important figure in the political history of New Zealand.
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In this innovative study Michael Bassett, historian and former politician, explores how and why the state became such an active and interventionist player in New Zealand life, developing, subsidising and regulating the economy and protecting citizens from the cradle to the grave. ...
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This is the biography of New Zealand Prime Minister, Gordon Coates (1878-1943). It offers a reassessment of the achievements and failures of a political career which spanned the extremes of popular adulation and contempt.
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Brings to life the history of the most important agency of government in New Zealand for much of the last century. It traces the evolution of the Department of Internal Affairs from its genesis as the Colonial Secretary's Office in 1840.
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Brings to life the history of the most important agency of government in New Zealand for much of the last century. It traces the evolution of the Department of Internal Affairs from its genesis as the Colonial Secretary's Office in 1840.
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