Bridget Williams Books: 132 books
Growing Apart
Regional Prosperity in New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
‘If we rank our regions internationally, Auckland, Wellington and Canterbury are comparable to France, Finland and Saudi Arabia respectively. But the smaller regions look like Timor-Leste (Northland), Greece (Manawatu-Whanganui and Gisborne) or other emerging economies such as Cyprus and the Seychelles.’The...
A Pastoral Kingdom Divided
Cheviot, 18891894
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Cheviot Hills, an 84,000 acre North Canterbury sheep run, was a symbol of vast and impregnable wealth to nineteenth-century New Zealand. But in the 1890s it became the first 'big estate’ acquired by the Liberal Government and broken up into small farms.Jim Gardner, a former Canterbury University historian,...
The First Migration
Māori Origins 3000BC AD1450
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Thousands of years ago migrants from South China began the journey that took their descendants through the Pacific to the southernmost islands of Polynesia. Atholl Anderson’s ground-breaking synthesis of research and tradition charts this epic journey of New Zealand’s first human inhabitants.Taken...
Understanding Children and Childhood
A New Zealand Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Understanding Children and Childhood examines how and why children develop, and how they interact with the people and events in their lives. Emphasising that children grow up in diverse cultural contexts, Anne Smith’s book builds an understanding of childhood in New Zealand based on childhood studies...
Migrant Journeys
New Zealand taxi drivers tell their stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
You’re at the airport. You want a cab so you head for the long line of taxis sitting on the rank. You take the first. Chances are the driver will be a first generation migrant the taxi industry in New Zealand has become a microcosm of multiculturalism. Adrienne Jansen and Liz GrantMigrant Journeys...
by Claudia Orange
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
This book builds on Claudia Orange’s award-winning Treaty of Waitangi, using a wonderful range of photographs, maps and paintings to bring the Treaty’s history to life.Depictions of key players and moments sit alongside a clear and informative text that helps explain the history of this key document....
Sorrows of a Century
Interpreting Suicide in New Zealand, 19002000
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Focusing on New Zealand’s comprehensive and accessible coroners’ records, John Weaver analyses some twelve thousand cases to determine the social and cultural factors that contribute to suicide rates. He examines the official investigations into sudden deaths, placing them within the context of major...
I Shall Not Die
Titokowaru’s War, 18681869
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Leading historian James Belich presents Titokowaru, a Taranaki chief in the 1860s, as one of the great figures of New Zealand history. A leader in peace and war, he ran a stunning military campaign against colonial forces as he sought to save his people and their lands from European invasion.In a powerfully...
Polluted Inheritance
New Zealand’s Freshwater Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
The parlous state of our freshwater ecosystems is just one signal that we face a more widespread, and unprecedented, environmental crisis.New Zealand’s dairy industry is big business. But what are the hidden and not so hidden costs of intensive farming? Evidence presented here by ecologist Mike...
Thorndon
Wellington and Home, My Katherine Mansfield Project
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
‘If I began asking you questions about Wellington ways there would be no end of it …’ Katherine Mansfield‘I came home to Wellington, to a place half remembered, half real, half fantasy, half fact, remembered and a dream …’ Kirsty GunnFor London-based writer Kirsty Gunn, returning...
Facing the Past
Looking Back at Refugee Childhood in New Zealand 1940s1960s
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
In her first book, A Small Price to Pay, Ann Beaglehole traced the experiences of European refugees to New Zealand in the 1930s. In Facing the Past she focuses on the lives of a younger generation the children of those wartime immigrants, whose perceptions and experiences of both the old and the new...
The World to Come
From Christian Past to Global Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
The Christian era is at an end: after two thousand years the religious faith that has shaped western civilisation has been found wanting. So argues Lloyd Geering in a controversial examination of society and religion, in which he looks at the reasons for Christianity’s decline and the likely shape...
by Claudia Orange
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
The Treaty of Waitangi is a central document in New Zealand history. This lively account tells the story of the Treaty from its signing in 1840 through the debates and struggles of the nineteenth century to the gathering political momentum of recent decades.The second edition of this popular book brings...
No Country for Old Maids?
Talking About the ‘Man Drought’
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Hannah August's intelligent and humane study illuminates, sometimes uncomfortably, the ways in which our demographics are changing and our attitudes are not. This is public intellection that is curious, rigorous, and highly relevant to our time.' Eleanor CattonIn 2013, there were over 66,000 more...