Otago University Press imprint: 38 books
Promised New Zealand
Fleeing Nazi Persecution
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Police hold placards in front of Jewish, emblazoned with the words "don't buy from Jews;" others put up signs to identify places where Jews are to be denied entry. SA men smashed Jewish shop windows, owners are terrorized into relinquishing their businesses, and home are visited Gestapo who take family members away. The year is is 1993 and this is life in Fuhrer's Germany.
Dangerous Enthusiasms
E-government, Computer Failure and Information System Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Information and the technology that supports its collection, communication and analysis is a core concern of modern government, making e-government (meaning electronically enabled government) fundamental to the ongoing "reinvention" of public administration. But the quest for e-government...
An Accidental Utopia?
Social Mobility and the Foundations of an Eglitarian Society, 18801940
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
An Accidental Utopia? investigates a more egalitarian past at a time when New Zealand ranks fourth in the developed world for social inequality. It is our first systematic analysis of urban social structure, focusing on three major forms of mobility—marital, work life, and intergenerational. This...
Refuge New Zealand
A Nation's Response to Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Unlike people who choose to migrate in search of new opportunities, refugees are compelled to leave their homeland. Typically, they are escaping war and persecution because of their ethnicity, their religion or their political beliefs. Since 1840, New Zealand has given refuge to thousands of people...
Mad or Bad?
The Life and Exploits of Amy Bock, 1859-1943
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Amy Bock's life has been the inspiration for plays, books, a TV program, music, poems, an exhibition and more, but Mad or Bad? is the first comprehensive biography. And while Amy gained notoriety as a daring, duplicitous and talked-about con artist who impersonated a man and married an unsuspecting...
I am five and I go to school
Early Years Schooling in New Zealand, 1900-2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The twentieth century was a time of great change in early years education. As the century opened, the use of Froebel's kindergarten methods infiltrated more infant classrooms. The emergence of psychology as a discipline, and especially its work on child development, was beginning to influence thinking...
A Rising Tide
Evangelical Christianity in New Zealand 193065
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
In New Zealand, evangelical Christianity has always played a significant role. This book explores the fascinating story of the resurgence of evangelical Protestantism in the 1950s and 60s, and its prewar origins.
Past Judgement
Social Policy in New Zealand History
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Appreciating New Zealand's distinctive social policy history is important in formulating future social policies. This is one of the premises in Past Judgement: Social Policy in New Zealand History, which brings together recent research on a range of social policy contexts.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Asians and the New Multiculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand presents thought-provoking new research on New Zealand's fastest-growing demographic: the geographically, nationally, and historically diverse Asian communities. This collection examines the unresolved tensions between a dynamic biculturalism...
White Ghosts, Yellow Peril
China and NZ 1790–1950
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
White Ghosts, Yellow Peril is the first book ever to explore all sides of the relationship between China and New Zealand and their peoples during the seven or so generations after they initially came into contact. The Qing Empire and its successor states from 1790 to 1950 were vast, complex and torn...
Doctors in Denial
The Forgotten Women in the 'Unfortunate Experiment'
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
When Dr Ron Jones joined the staff of National Women's Hospital in Auckland in 1973 as a junior obstetrician and gynecologist, Professor Herbert Green's study into the natural history of carcinoma in-situ of the cervix (CIS) – later called ‘the unfortunate experiment' – had been in progress...
Annie's War
A New Zealand Woman and Her Family in England 1916–19
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
There have been many published collections of soldiers' diaries and letters from the First World War, but never a firsthand account of one New Zealand family's life in England during these challenging and frightening years. When her sons, Oswald and Seton, decided they wanted to serve as pilots, which...
Childhoods
Growing up in Aotearoa New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Children are citizens with autonomy and rights identified by international agencies and United Nations conventions, but these rights are not readily enforceable. Some of the worst levels of child poverty and poor health in the OECD, as well as exceptionally high child suicide rates, exist in Aotearoa...
Bitter Sweet
Indigenous Women in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
The South Pacific has long represented the possibilities of a pure space, outside the ambivalences of a ‘developed' world. But the indigenous women of this region often speak of the bitter sweetness of their experiences. Pacific women's multiple engagements with work and with sovereignty politics,...