Auckland University Press imprint: 301 books
Interdependence and Foreign Policy
New Zealand in the World Since 1935
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Independence and Foreign Policy is the first interpretive study of New Zealand foreign policy to cover the period 1935–91. Based on years of detailed research, it draws extensively on relevant sources both inside and outside government. It is also an original and imaginative work which consistently...
Juridical Encounters
Maori and the Colonial Courts, 1840-1852
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
From 1840 to 1852, the Crown Colony period, the British attempted to impose their own law on New Zealand. In theory Maori, as subjects of the Queen, were to be ruled by British law. But in fact, outside the small, isolated, British settlements, most Maori and many settlers lived according to tikanga....
Mad on Radium
New Zealand in the Atomic Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Although New Zealander Lord Rutherford was the first to split the atom, the country has since been known around the world for its nuclear-free stance. In this engaging and accessible book, an alternative history is revealed of "nuclear New Zealand"—when there was much enthusiasm for nuclear...
This Realm of New Zealand
The Sovereign, the Governor-General, the Crown
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
New Zealand is a democratic constitutional monarchy, one of Queen Elizabeth II's sixteen realms. This book provides a comprehensive account of how the Queen, the Governor-General and the Crown interact with our democratically-elected leaders under New Zealand's unwritten constitution.The authors explain...
Home in the Howling Wilderness
Settlers and the Environment in Southern New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
During the 19th century, New Zealand's South Island underwent an environmental transformation at the hands of European settlers. They diverted streams and drained marshes, burned native vegetation and planted hedges and grasses, stocked farms with sheep and cattle and poured on fertilizer. Through...
Adverse Reactions
The Fenoterol Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Recounting the fenoterol epidemic—a major medical controversy that took place more than 15 years ago—this narrative explores the involvement of the asthma drug that caused numerous asthma deaths. Although the epidemic occurred in New Zealand, its shocking discoveries and subsequent consequences...
Tell You What
Great New Zealand Nonfiction 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
A fantastic collection of recent nonfiction essays, Tell You What contains live, wild, true stories from contemporary New Zealand. On the web and the wireless, in magazines and journals, at prizegivings and powhiri, New Zealanders are writing about the world. Essays and articles, speeches and submissions,...
by Gregory Kan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
In This Paper Boat, poet Gregory Kan traces the life and written fragments of Robin Hyde, vivid with imagery and impression – the tide pool at Island Bay and its shrimp, the driftwood and crushed lemon leaves. He listens to the stories of his parents and of their parents, the eels and milk, frangipani...
A Voice for Mothers
The Plunket Society and Infant Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
Covering the history of the Plunket Society from 1907 to the present day, this book is organized around three dominant themes that contribute both to international historiography and to the social history of New Zealand. These themes are the mixed economy of welfare, maternal and infant health, and...
by Robin Hyde
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
An entirely new edition of Robin Hyde’s wistful and engaging classic novel, first published in 1938 and in print ever since. The Godwits Fly vividly conveys the intensely felt worlds of the adolescent—love, poetry and England—and the enthralling but sometimes painful experience of growing up female.
Young Knowledge
Poems of Robin Hyde
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
A full chronological record of the poems of Robin Hyde, a New Zealand journalist, novelist, dramatist, and poet active in the 1930s, is presented in this book. The 300 poems chosen show Hyde’s growth as a poet and her response to the painful events of her personal life and to the political and social...
Julius Vogel
Business Politician
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Julius Vogel (1835–99) dominated New Zealand politics in a way that no man had done before him and few have done since. He was behind the policy that transformed New Zealand from a collection of sparsely settled and isolated provinces into a unified nation, he cultivated trade connections and was...
Chiefs of Industry
Maori Tribal Enterprise in Early Colonial New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Drawing on a wide range of sources in both English and Maori, this study explores the entrepreneurial activity of New Zealand’s indigenous Maori in the early colonial period. Focusing on the two industries-coastal shipping and flourmilling-where Maori were spectacularly successful in the 1840s and...
Kinds of Peace
Maori People After the Wars, 1870-85
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Admirably clear and concise in its account of the aftermath of the land wars, Kinds of Peace examines the political, religious and other reactions among Māori towards the coming of peace. It considers the effect of the wars on the Māori people of Waikato, Taranaki, and Hawkes Bay, and draws heavily...