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Secret History: State Surveillance in NZ, 1900-1956

In 1900, a handful of New Zealand police detectives watched out for spies, seditionists and others who might pose a threat to state and society. The Police Force remained the primary instrument of suc..

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Seven Lives on Salt River

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Shifting Grounds: Deep Histories of Tamaki Makaurau / Auckland

In a city that has forgotten and erased much of its history, there are still places where traces of the past can be found. Deep histories, both natural and human, have been woven together over h..

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Shipwrecked: New Zealand maritime disasters

Shipwrecks litter the coasts and reefs of New Zealand. Disasters at sea are no longer the regular occurrence they were in the days when sea travel was the main means of coastal and international trans..

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Singing the Trail: The Story of Mapping Aotearoa New Zealand

The very first maps, oral maps made by early Polynesian and Maori settlers, were waypoints, lists of places in songs, chants, karakia and stories that showed direction. Hundreds of years later, ..

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Soldier's Rest, A

i) Details of my book include its introduction, followed by the early history of the McLeod family, their emigration in 1889 and establishment on a Southland farm. Some early New Zealand history follo..

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Te Ata o Tu The Shadow of Tumatauenga: The New Zealand Wars Collections of Te Papa

The New Zealand Wars of 1845-72 were a series of bitter and bloody conflicts between Maori and Pakeha that extended from Wairau to the Bay of Islands, and from Taranaki to the East Cape. They are as i..

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Te Kooti's Last Foray

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Te Kupenga: 101 stories of Aotearoa from the Turnbull Library

Published to mark 100 years since the establishment of the famous Alexander Turnbull Library, one of New Zealand's great storehouses, this energetic, comprehensive book approaches the history of A..

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Te Tiriti o Waitangi/The Treaty of Waitangi

Ground-breaking full-colour graphic novel about Te Tiriti o Waitangi | The Treaty of Waitangi. Accessible, engaging, image-rich design. Dual-language flip book with Maori and Pakeha authors Ross Calma..

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Te Whatu Taniko: Taniko Weaving: Technique and Tradition

Sir Hirini Moko Mead's book on taniko weaving, Te Whatu Taniko, Taniko Weaving: Tradition and Technique is recognised as a key reference work to this important tradition of Maori craft. First publishe..

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Te Whiti o Rongomai and the Resistance of Parihaka

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The Dunedin Affair: The Bishop who lost his See

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The English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi *Winner Ockham 2023 General Non-Fiction Award*

How was the English text of the Treaty of Waitangi understood by the British in 1840? That is the question addressed by historian and lawyer Ned Fletcher, in this extensive work. With one excepti..

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The Financial Colonisation of Aotearoa *Ockham 2024 Longlist*

“Theoretically sophisticated, historically precise, and politically urgent” —Max Haiven Finance was at the centre of every stage of the colonisation of Aotearoa, from the sale of Maori lands and ..

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The Photo on the Wall: The search for a missing WWII airman

Like many of her generation, Wendy St George grew up with an awareness that her Taranaki family had lost someone in World War Two. Her uncle Ted Saywell was never talked about but his photo was on the..

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The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The untold story of the shadowy international spy network, through its targets, traitors and spies

The Times best political books of 2022 'This thought-provoking and informative book suggests that the era of globetrotting lone agents such as James Bond is long gone.' - Sydney Morning Herald ..

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The Story of a Treaty | He Korero Tiriti 3E

The Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti o Waitangi is a central document in the history of Aotearoa New Zealand. This lively account tells the story of the Treaty/Te Tiriti from its signing in 1840, through ..

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The Team That Hit the Rocks

In April 1968 the New Zealand interisland passenger ferry Wahine, a fast and modern ship for its time, hit Barrett Reef at the entrance to Wellington Harbour in a cyclone, the worst storm ever recorde..

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Towards the Mountain: A Story of Grief and Hope Forty Years on from Erebus

When an Air New Zealand sightseeing plane crashed into the lower slopes of Mount Erebus in Antarctica in 1979, all 257 people on board lost their lives. The Erebus disaster sent shockwaves thro..

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Traditional Lifeways of the Southern Maori

Journalist James Herries Beattie recorded southern Maori history for almost fifty years and produced many popular books and pamphlets. Traditional Lifeways of the Southern Maori is his most important ..

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Treaty of Waitangi

A short, balanced introduction to the nation's founding document. In plain language it covers the events around the signing of The Treaty of Waitangi, and what has happened since. Also included is inf..

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Treaty of Waitangi, The | Te Tiriti o Waitangi: An Illustrated History

Claudia Orange's writing on the Treaty of Waitangi has played a central role in national understanding of this foundational document. This fully revised and updated edition (previously entitled An Ill..

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Uprising: Walking the Southern Alps of New Zealand

A riveting blend of nature writing, indigenous storytelling and great adventure in the NZ alps This book is about walking as a form of knowing. Armed with Ngai Tahu's ancient oral maps and modern..

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Victory at Gate Pa?: The Battle of Pukehinahina 1894

The 29 April 1864 Battle of Pukehinahina-Gate Pa resulted in the astonishing defeat of a force of 1700 Imperial British soldiers, sailors and a few militia, who were supported by the largest art..

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Vikings of the Sunrise

Vikings of the Sunrise ranks as a masterpiece of Pacific studies. From the pen of one of the greatest Maori thinkers and writers of his generation, the settlement of the Pacific Ocean comes to life. ..

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Women Mean Business: Colonial businesswomen in New Zealand

From Kaitaia in Northland to Oban on Stewart Island, New Zealand's nineteenth-century towns were full of entrepreneurial women. Contrary to what we might expect, colonial women were not only wives and..

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