Auckland University Press imprint: 301 books
by Lynn Jenner
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
A collage of interlinked stories and items, this unique collection of poetry ties the author's own family history with that of famous escapologist Harry Houdini and spy Mata Hari. Set during World War I, this volume delves into seemingly unrelated topics, such as the Jewish émigré experience, amateur...
Waihou Journeys
The Archaeology of 400 years of Maori Settlement
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Drawing on archaeology, Maori oral history, European accounts, this is a fascinating study of cultural change and development by Maori in a single region of New Zealand.
Kingdom Animalia
The Escapades of Linnaeus
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The poems in this first full collection from New Zealand's Janis Freegard are categorized by Linnaean taxonomy: the six sections Mammalia, Aves, Amphibia, Pisces, Insecta, and Vermes are interspersed with a seven-part poem on the topic of Carolus Linneaus himself. Here Freegard catalogs the various...
by Murray Edmond
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
A little bubbly, a little bitter, a little absurd, and echoing with the sound of laughter, these poem-songs have shaggy tales to tell. Shaggy Magpie Songs is a celebration of poetry's potential – for drama and comedy, narrative and nonsense. Presented in four parts – Praise, Nonsense, Blues and...
by James Belich
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
First published in 1986, James Belich’s groundbreaking book and the television series based upon it transformed New Zealanders’ understanding of New Zealand’s great “civil war”: struggles between Maori and Pakeha in the 19th century. Revealing the enormous tactical and military skill of...
by Anne French
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1997
The first new collection for five years from prize-winning poet Anne French. She writes about personal relationships better than any other New Zealand poet and the brutal honesty, the wit, the structural elegance of these new poems show once again her mastery of this territory.
A Whakapapa of Tradition
One Hundred Years of Ngato Porou Carving, 1830-1930
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
From the emergence of the chapel and the wharenui in the nineteenth century to the rejuvenation of carving by Apirana Ngata in the 1920s, Maori carving went through a rapid evolution from 1830 to 1930. Focusing on thirty meeting houses, Ngarino Ellis tells the story of Ngati Porou carving and a profound...
Historical Frictions
Maori Claims and Reinvented Histories
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
The land claims presented before the Waitangi Tribunal, first established in 1975 as a permanent commision of inquiry to address claims by the Maori people, are discussed in this analysis of the role of legal courts and commissions in mediating disputes with indigenous peoples.
Making Sheep Country
Mt Peel Station and the Transformation of the Tussock Lands
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
From the 1840s through World War I, the South Island of New Zealand was transformed as large tracts of land were claimed, native vegetation was burned, and large-scale sheep farming was established for wool and, later, meat production. This record focuses on one case study in particular—John Barton...
by Raymond Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
New Zealand is one of the world's oldest democracies for men and women, Maori and Pakeha, with one of the highest political participation rates. But—from MMP to leadership primaries, spin doctors to "dirty politics"—the country's political system is undergoing rapid change. Examining...
His Way
A Biography of Robert Muldoon
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
This the only authorized biography of New Zealand’s prime minister, Robert Muldoon—one of the dominant political figures of the last half-century in that country. Based on many hours of conversation with Muldoon himself as well as colleagues, friends, and family, and wide access to the prime minister’s...
Tauira
Maori Methods of Learning and Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
In te reo Maori, tauira means both student and teacher, and this book by acclaimed educator and anthropologist Joan Metge shows that Maori educational practices had a particular form and philosophy. Maori focused on learning by doing, teaching in context, learning in a group, memorizing, and advancement...
by Lynn Jenner
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Between 2010 and 2014 Lynn Jenner made several related emotional and intellectual investigations. Lost and Gone Away is the record of these: a fascinating, ambitious hybrid text of nonfiction, prose poems and poetry. The book traverses the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquake; samples and sifts...
Na to Hoa Aroha, from Your Dear Friend, Volume 3
The Correspondence of Sir Apirana Ngata
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The leading historian Keith Sorrenson has collected in three volumes the complete correspondence (174 letters in all) between two distinguished twentieth-century Māori scholars and statesmen, Sir Apirana Ngata and Sir Peter Buck (Te Rangi Hiroa). 'The letters confirm that each man was indeed a totara...