Dressed: Fashionable Dress in Aotearoa New Zealand 1840 to 1910 by Claire Regnault
70.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History | Reading Level: very good
When crinolines, bustles and ostrich feathers were the height of colonial fashion. This richly illustrated and lively social history explores the creation, consumption and spectacle of fashionable dress in Aotearoa New Zealand from 1840 to the early 1900s. Dressmakers were essential contributors to the ...Show more
Voices from the New Zealand Wars | He Reo nō ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa by Vincent O'Malley
50.00 NZD
Category: Māori - History
'Welcome to our story, this history. Wherever in the world the bones of your ancestors lie, wherever their ashes may have been dispersed, here you will find traces of them, and of yourself... It is, of course, a story of colonisation and resistance - and a history that has never stopped repeating.' The ...Show more
Footprints on the Land - How Humans Changed New Zealand by Richard Wolfe
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History | Reading Level: near fine
Less than a thousand years of human occupation have massively altered Aotearoa. In this fascinating work, cultural historian Richard Wolfe explores how and why settlers have impacted on nature and what this means for our future. Footprints on the Land is a timely review of the human place in our environ ...Show more
Patu: The New Zealand Wars by Gavin Bishop
40.00 NZD
Category: Children - Reference | Series: 1st
A large-format, stunning visual history of the New Zealand Wars of the 1800s, suitable for children and adults, by the multiple-award-winning Gavin BishopDiscover the key people, perspectives and battles of the New Zealand Wars in this powerfully told and richly illustrated visual history by Gavin Bisho ...Show more
Those Magnificent Voyagers of the Pacific by Andrew Crowe
35.00 NZD
Category: Children - Reference
This epic story begins 5000 years ago, when the ancestors of Polynesians discovered ways to ‘see’ over the horizon to find and settle new islands. As their landfinding skills grew, these people took ever bigger strides across the vast Pacific until they reached South America. It was not until almost eve ...Show more
Our Untold Stories: Extraordinary Tales from New Zealand's Past by Tom Clarke
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History
Our Untold Stories is a collection of interesting, informative, entertaining, amusing, inspiring, tragic and fascinating stories from New Zealand’s past — stories which have been largely forgotten or were unknown. For more than 40 years, former journalist Tom Clarke has been gathering stories for a Tod ...Show more
Blood & Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand by Jared Davidson
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History | Series: 1st
'Picture, for a minute, every artwork of colonial New Zealand you can think of. Now add a chain gang. Hard labour men guarded by other men with guns. Men moving heavy metal. Men picking at the earth. Over and over again. This was the reality of nineteenth-century New Zealand.' Forced labour haunts the ...Show more
Where the Flaming Hell Are We?: The story of young Australians and New Zealanders fighting the Nazis in Greece and Crete by Craig Collie
38.00 NZD
Category: Military
The gripping story of Australia and New Zealand in the fight for the Aegean - through the eyes of the soldiers. 'We used our knees and our rifle butts and our blades. For a while we stopped being ordinary blokes and became blood-lusted creatures.' March, 1941: 40,000 Australian and New Zealand troops a ...Show more
Our Land in Colour by Jock Phillips, Brendan Graham
55.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History | Reading Level: very good
A breathtaking collection of 200 photographs expertly colourised by Aotearoa New Zealand's premier colourist, Brendan Graham, with commentary from award-winning historian Jock Phillips ONZM Our Land in Colour celebrates the rich story of Aotearoa through the restoration of images never before seen in co ...Show more
Angelina: From Stromboli to D'Urville Island - A Family's Story by Gerard Hindmarsh
35.00 NZD
Category: Nelson
In 1906, at just 16 years of age, Angelina Criscillo left the tiny volcanic island of Stromboli off Sicily to travel to an even remoter island on the other side of the world. From the age of eight she had been betrothed to her cousin, Vincenzo Moleta, who was now twice her age and taking her to a new l ...Show more
September 12: The Third Test and Final Protest of the 1981 Springbok Tour: 1981 by Anthony Phelps
85.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History
A high quality artists book - 100 page photographic record of the Springbok Tour protests in Auckland, mainly on September 12 showing police, protesters, spectators and the violence that ensued as Aotearoa New Zealand's population were split apart and the public's relationship with the police changed fo ...Show more
Pakeha Ta Moko by Trevor Bentley
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History
Views on Pakeha receiving Moko have changed over the centuries. While today it is generally considered to be taboo, through the 19th century, Moko were often given to "Pakeha-Maori" - Pakeha men and women who lived within Maori tribes. A Moko on a Pakeha could be a sign of allegiance and belonging. Base ...Show more