Canterbury University Press: 8 books

Four Wellington university students, Meg, Henry, Steph and Diana, are thrown together in the broad sphere of leftist politics, love and betrayal. Set in the 1970s.

Spanning the social, political, and economic history of the Pacific Islands-which include Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia-this book provides an overview of this complex and changing area. It has been updated to detail the first settlement of the islands by raft and canoe voyagers, presenting...

This book details New Zealand's worst public health crisis, and its worst natural disaster: over 8,500 New Zealanders died from influenza and pneumonia in just six weeks. Nearly a quarter of the victims were Maori, who died at seven times the death rate of European New Zealanders. First published...

Providing a personal perspective of domestic life in the 19th century, this fascinating biography of Lady Barker sheds light on a Victorian author, Anne Stewart, who lived in England, India, New Zealand, South Africa, Mauritius, Australia, and Trinidad through the course of her life. Illustrating...

Leading New Zealand historians re-explore the 1913 Great Strike through the eyes of the state, the police, the strikers, the militants, the moderates, and the ruling and working classes. The 1913 strike remains the most violent strike in New Zealand's history.

Drawing on recently released military documents and previously unpublished photographs, this enthralling record is the first-ever account of New Zealand’s role in the Spanish civil war that lasted from 1936 through 1939. Volunteers from more than 50 countries took sides, including New Zealanders...

In 1955, esteemed New Zealand mountaineer Norman Hardie led one of the two summit pairs that made the first ascent of Kangchenjunga, the third-highest mountain in the world. He played an important part in three expeditions with sir Edmund Hillary and was a director of his Himalayan Trust. He went...

In the last fifty years New Zealand has become a world leader in the conservation of endangered species. This book is the first to present a history of faunal change in New Zealand and a review of the ecology and conservation of those animals. An invaluable resource for students of ecology and conservation, but written in a highly readable style for the non-specialist.