Bridget Williams Books: 132 books
Born to a Changing World
Childbirth in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Emerging from diaries, letters and memoirs, the voices of this charming narrative tell of new life arriving amidst a turbulent world.Women in the nineteenth century gave birth in widely varying circumstances: Māori women of noble families might be lovingly cared for within the whare kōhanga; wealthy...
Tomorrow's God
How We Create Our Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
The post-Christian era offers a mixed blessing, as people find greater personal freedom while facing a future without the certainty of traditional beliefs and practices.In Tomorrow’s God, renowned writer and commentator Lloyd Geering argues that the world we live in is largely a product of our own...
by Gavin Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
New Zealanders are too complacent about the continuing erosion of their right to know what government is doing on their behalf. Political risk has become a primary consideration in whether official information requests will be met, and successive governments have allowed free speech rights to be overridden.Drawing...
Tuai
A Traveller in Two Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
In early 1817 Tuai, a young Ngare Raumati chief from the Bay of Islands, set off for England. He was one of a number of Māori who, after encountering European explorers, traders and missionaries in New Zealand, seized opportunities to travel beyond their familiar shores to Australia, England and...
Migrations
Journeys in time and place
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
'This is my kind of book, and a book for any New Zealander descended from European immigrants, particularly from Britain. In a narrative that is learned, atmospheric and often gripping, Rod Edmond reflects on identity and migration with the penetrating insight of a still tenderly attached exile.'...
I think … I am going to die.'
Katherine Mansfield at Fontainebleau
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
When Miss Katherine Mansfield, the brilliant novelist, passed away the other day in almost the spring of her promise, it was in a curious little oasis in the historic Forest of Fontainebleau… From 'The Graphic', 10 March 1923
This moving, beautifully written chapter from Kathleen Joness biography...
The Interregnum
Rethinking New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
‘The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear’ Antonio GramsciIs New Zealand’s political settlement beginning to fray? And does this mean we’re entering the interregnum, that ambiguous...
Webs of Empire
Locating New Zealand’s Colonial Past
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Spread across the nineteenth-century colonial world was a tangled web of cultural and economic networks. In groundbreaking research, Tony Ballantyne positions New Zealand within these ‘webs of empire’, connecting Gore and Chicago, Māori and Asia, India and newspapers, whalers and writing. His work...
Late Love
Sometimes Doctors Need Saving as Much as Their Patients
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
‘I have fought a running battle with medicine for much of my career. I have wanted to leave it for poetry. This is the story of how that has come to change for me. And how both those worlds have at last arrived at some sort of reconciliation.’ As a youth worker, doctor and award-winning poet and...
by Lloyd Geering
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Does the failure of the conventional idea of God spell the end of the Christian tradition? Or does it simply mean the end of conventional Christian doctrine? Christianity without God affirms the latter, treating Christian culture as a living and evolving stream. In this cogently argued book, Lloyd Geering...
Wrestling with God
The Story of my Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Wrestling With God tells the story of the man who came to personify New Zealand’s debates over the role and meaning of religious belief in increasingly secular age.In the public eye ever since his famed heresy trial in 1967, Lloyd Geering describes his journey from a Depression era childhood, through...
Fatal Necessity
British Intervention in New Zealand, 18301847
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
A detailed examination of the circumstances leading to British intervention and hence to the Treaty of Waitangi, Fatal Necessity was first published in 1977.Now re-issued as an e-book, this key text in Treaty studies emphasises that the dual aim of British policy was to protect both settlers and Māori; the reality, however, proved very different.
by Deborah Russell, Terry Baucher
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2017
The world has changed a lot in the last thirty years, but New Zealand’s tax system hasn’t. Since the 1980s New Zealand’s taxation policy has remained the same, despite substantial economic and social changes. The system may be familiar, but is it fair?
Deborah Russell and Terry Baucher’s...
The FIRE Economy
New Zealand's Reckoning
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
The FIRE economy built on finance, insurance and real estate is now the world’s principal source of wealth creation. Its rise has transformed our political, economic and social landscapes, supported by a neoliberal regime that celebrates markets, profit and risk. From rising inequality and ballooning...