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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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The New Zealand Wars were a series of conflicts that profoundly shaped the course and direction of our nation's history. This book by leading historian Vincent O'Malley provides an accessible introduction to their causes, events and consequences.
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Leading military historian Glyn Harper has scoured archives and museums worldwide to show where and when New Zealanders served in other forces in the First World War, and to tell their remarkable - and sometimes surprising and tragic - stories for the first time.
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The definitive, authoritative history of the Royal New Zealand Engineers describes the corps' actions, events and people from the New Zealand Wars of the 19th century to the present day. It includes military engineering in New Zealand, including that of Maori, the corps' role in ...
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This is an autobiographical account of Marilyn Waring's extraordinary years in parliament. She tells the story of her journey from being elected as a new National Party MP in a conservative rural seat to being publicly decried by the Prime Minister for her `feminist anti-nuclear ...
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* Gorgeous coffee-table book with superb text and photos * Celebrates the harbour front's past, present and future * From Hobsonville to Britomart, Wynyard Quarter to Devonport
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"From Wellingtons Plimmer Steps to the green hills of Motukawa ... Stories of Victorian and Edwardian life in the capital city lead on to the diverging paths of later generations, with an ongoing involvement in commerce, politics and farming. The hard days for farmers during the ...
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For the first time, this book tells the collective story of how our troops were supported and cared for by dedicated teams of doctors, nurses, dentists, ambulance officers, orderlies and sanitation and hygiene workers, and the important role of veterinarians in caring for horses.
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It includes 'the obvious suspects' of politics - for example, the first woman MP was Elizabeth McCombs, elected for Labour in Lyttelton in 1933 and the first Maori woman MP, Iriaka Ratana, stood for Labour in Western Maori. Both won by-elections after the deaths of their husbands ...
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Slavery in the popular imagination has always been associated with the enslavement of Africans, and with good reason. Slavery however, is universal and not something that only white people did to black people. Throughout history, slavery has been practiced in many different forms ...
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