Auckland University Press imprint: 301 books
by Janis Freegard
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
The poems in The Glass Rooster explore the spaces inhabited by humans and other creatures—from natural ecosystems to cities and even to outer space. Our guide on this journey is a glass rooster—observer of stars and lover of hens—who first popped up in Janis Freegard's poetry years ago and wanders...
Settlers
New Zealand Immigrants from England, Ireland & Scotland 18001945
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Analyzing everything from shipping records to death registers, this book takes an in-depth look at New Zealand's European ancestors, exploring the origins of the island's national identity. Using individual examples of immigrants and their families, it examines their geographical origins, their...
A Sort of Conscience
The Wakefields
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
This in-depth portrait of the Wakefield family, who played such a major role in British overseas settlement in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand in the 19th century, is written with a novelistic flavor, using personal letters and journals to bring to life this group of talented but morally complex...
Show of Justice
Racial Amalgamation in Nineteenth Century New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
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...
by Barry Spicer, Michael Powell, David Emanuel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The Remaking of Television New Zealand outlines and analyses the radical changes made to television broadcasting in New Zealand during the period 1984-1992. It looks closely at how TVNZ, a division of the Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand, was transformed into a successful commercial company...
Leisure and Pleasure
Reshaping and Revealing the New Zealand Body 1900-1960
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
This exploration of an unexpected aspect of New Zealand social history examines the human body at leisure in the years 1900–1960. This book studies bodybuilding, especially the famous strongman Eugen Sandow; growing ideas about fitness, health, and exercise; the rise of beauty contests; the culture...
The Meeting Place
Maori and Pakeha Encounters, 1642–1840
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
An account focusing on the encounters between the Maori and Pakeha—or European settlers—and the process of mutual discovery from 1642 to around 1840, this New Zealand history book argues that both groups inhabited a middle ground in which neither could dictate the political, economic, or cultural...
Good-bye Maoriland
The Songs and Sounds of New Zealand's Great War
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
They left their Southern Lands, They sailed across the sea; They fought the Hun, they fought the Turk For truth and liberty. Now Anzac Day has come to stay, And bring us sacred joy; Though wooden crosses be swept away – We'll never forget our boys. – Jane Morison, ‘We'll never forget our boys',...
Songs of Kaumatua
Traditional Songs of the Maori as Sung by Kino Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2001
Sixty traditional Maori songs of Tuhoe sung by Kino Hughes are presented in this book and CD collection. The text of each song is given in both English and Maori along with a musical transcription. Kino Hughes was an outstanding singer, orator, and respected Kaumatua who, determined to preserve for...
The Warm Winds of Change
Globalisation in Contemporary Samoa
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Examining a variety of intriguing issues, this sociological study analyzes the impact global culture has had on the flora and fauna, people, economies, languages, and cultures of the Pacific for many centuries. The survey draws on findings from a 40-year research partnership, illustrating the effects...
Simply by Sailing in a New Direction
Allen Curnow: A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Allen Curnow (1911–2001) was at the time of his death regarded as one of the greatest of all poets writing in English. For seventy years, from Valley of Decision (1933) to The Bells of Saint Babel's (2001), Curnow's poetry was always on the move – from his early approaches to New Zealand identity...
Letters from Gallipoli
New Zealand Soldiers Write Home
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Revealing and often heartbreaking, this collection of letters offers a powerful firsthand account of a pivotal event in New Zealand history: World War I's Gallipoli Campaign in 1915. Grouped in chronological order, the correspondence—gathered from archives, newspapers, and family collections—details...
by Anna Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In Anna Jackson's fifth collection of poetry, a rich and leafy life closes in on the New Zealand poet. Scenarios from home and work join fairy-tale tropes in these multifaceted poems that preoccupy themselves with thickets of language and other tangles and examine the relationship between “I”...
by David Murray Hastings
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Ten years after the end of World War I, the Sydney Sun reported that an unknown Anzac still lay in a Sydney psychiatric hospital. ‘This man . . . was found wandering in a London street during the war,' reported the paper. ‘He said he was an Australian soldier. Beyond his first statement that he...