Auckland University Press: 301 books
Tuamaka
The Challenge of Difference in Aotearoa New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
From the point of view of a renowned anthropologist, this invaluable volume narrates the history of a multicultural New Zealand in which both Maori and non-Maori individuals cohabitate. Arguing that the Treaty of Waitangi of 1840-signed by the indigenous Maori and the British-established a foundation...
New Zealand's London
A Colony and its Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Antipodean soldiers and writers, meat carcasses and moa, British films and Kiwi tourists—throughout the last 150 years, people, objects and ideas have gone back and forth between New Zealand and London, defining and redefining the relationship between this country and the colonial center that many...
'Hauhau'
The Pai Marire Search for Maori Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
To most New Zealanders, the word 'Hauhau' conjures up a picture of bloodthirsty fanaticism. This book, the definitive study of the Pai Marire or 'Hauhau' Māori movement in the 1860s, presents a different view. Pai Marire is shown as being a search for ways of meeting European settlement and domination,...
Heaphy
Explorer, Artist, Settler
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Richly illustrated with Charles Heaphy's remarkable paintings and drawings as well as photographs and maps from the period, this engaging work tells the story of Heaphy's life and his art. A draughtsman, explorer, surveyor, gold agent, geologist, soldier, war hero, politician, land commissioner, and...
by Bruce Biggs
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
An excellent tool for students of New Zealand's Maori language, this pocket guide contains more than 4,000 entries in both its English and Maori sections. With a useful pronunciation guide and helpful information on parts of speech, it will be of relevance to linguists, anthropologists, researchers, and academics interested in Pacific Oceanic cultures and history.
Building the New World
Work, Politics and Society in Caversham, 1880s1920s
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1995
These essays are the result of a study of the Dunedin working-class suburb of Caversham. Olssen discusses a number of important theoretical issues the writing of history, the question of class, the role of gender, the nature of work and the growth of the labor movement are all explored.
The Treaty of Waitangi Companion
Maori and Pakeha from Tasman to Today
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The first comprehensive guide to key documents and notable quotations on New Zealand's Treaty of Waitangi, this volume explores the relationship between the Maori and the Pakeha—New Zealanders who are not of Maori descent. Sourced from government publications, newspapers, letters, diaries, poems,...
Tears of Rangi
Experiments Across Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2017
Six centuries ago Polynesian explorers, who inhabited a cosmos in which islands sailed across the sea and stars across the sky, arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand where they rapidly adapted to new plants, animals, landscapes and climatic conditions. Four centuries later, European explorers arrived with...
Tupuna Awa
People and Politics of the Waikato River
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
'We have always owned the water . . . we have never ceded our mana over the river to anyone', King Tuheitia Paki asserted in 2012. Prime Minister John Key disagreed: ‘King Tuheitia's claim that Maori have always owned New Zealand's water is just plain wrong'. So who does own the water in New Zealand...
Colonial Constructs
European images of Maori, 1840-1914
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
How did the European settler perceive Māori? What images of Māori society and culture did European artists create for their distant audiences? What preconceptions and aesthetic models lay behind early European depictions of Māori? These are some of the questions explored by art historian Leonard...
Ko te Whenua te Utu / Land Is the Price
Essays on Maori History, Land and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
For more than half a century, Keith Sorrenson—one of New Zealand's leading historians and himself of mixed Maori and Pakeha descent—has dived deeper than anyone into the story of two peoples in New Zealand. In this new book, Sorrenson brings together his major writing from the last 56 years into...
Singer in a Songless Land
A Life of Edward Tregear, 1846–1931
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
At the turn of the twentieth century, Edward Tregear was one of New Zealand's most prominent citizens and widely published intellectuals. He was an authority on Māori and Polynesian studies, a controversial 'socialist' and secretary of the Department of Labour, and a key player in attempts to form...
The Dominion of Signs
Television, Advertising and Other New Zealand Fictions
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
If you have ever wondered what led to the rise and fall of New Zealand's Telethon, or pondered the appeal of Metro magazine, or sought to understand the popularity of Billy T. James, this book is for you. The Dominion of Signs is a brilliant and provocative commentary on contemporary New Zealand culture.
Sir Joseph Ward
A Political Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Sir Joseph Ward (1856–1930) was the leading political figure during the forty-year life of the Liberal Party in New Zealand. He was a member of Ballance's first Cabinet, twice Prime Minister (1906–12 and 1928–30), and was still a Cabinet Minister at the time of his death. This lively biography...