The Penguin History Of New Zealand

Author : Michael King
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459623750

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The Penguin History of New Zealand by Michael King Pdf

New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce full democracy. Between those events, and in the century that followed the franchise, the movements and the conflicts of human history have been played out more intensively and more rapidly in New Zealand than anywhere else on Earth. The Penguin History of New Zealand, a new book for a new century, tells that story in all its colour and drama. The narrative that emerges in an inclusive one about men and women, Maori and Pakeha. It shows that British motives in colonising New Zealand were essentially humane; and that Maori, far from being passive victims of a 'fatal impact', coped heroically with colonisation and survived by selectively accepting and adapting what Western technology and culture had to offer. This book, a triumphant fruit of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, was an unprecedented best-seller from the time of its first publication in 2003.

Author : Keith Sinclair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : New Zealand
ISBN : 0140203443

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The Pelican History of New Zealand by Keith Sinclair Pdf

Author : Ian Wedde,Harvey McQueen
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040337177

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The Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse by Ian Wedde,Harvey McQueen Pdf

Author : Bob Brockie
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : New Zealand
ISBN : 0143018256

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The Penguin Eyewitness History of New Zealand by Bob Brockie Pdf

Dramatic first hand accounts from New Zealand's history. A Kiwi survives the September 11 attack. The Scott Watson trial. When the Auckland lights went out. Baiting the French at Mururoa Atoll. The Share Market Crash. The 1981 Springbok Tour: from both sides. Mr Asia is rumbled. Saved from the sinking Wahine. Knocking off Mt Everest. The Tangiwai Disaster. The Waterfront Dispute. Kiwi soldiers routed in Crete. Japanese POWs mutiny in Featherstone. Cabinet hears Britain declare war on Germany. Horror in the Napier Earthquake. Landing at Gallipoli. Richard Seddon welcomes the All Blacks home. The Brunnerton Mine Disaster. Watching Minnie Dean being hanged. Trapped under Mt Tarawera ash. Signing the Treaty of Waitangi. Violence at Murderers Bay . . .

Author : Keith Sinclair
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0195583817

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The Oxford Illustrated History of New Zealand by Keith Sinclair Pdf

Bringing one thousand years of history to life, this is an illustrated history of New Zealand from the settlement by Polynesians to the present day. The book covers the period of colonisation after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, the wars between the Maori and the British Army of the 1860s, the beginning of party government in the 1890s, votes for women in 1893, fighting in South Africa and Europe, the Depression, the Maori drift to towns, the influx of Pacific Islanders, and the economic reforms since the fourth Labour Government. Each chapter has been written by an acknowledged expert in his or her field, and a new chapter by Dr Jack Vowles brings the book fully up to date.

Author : Christina Thompson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408820797

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Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All by Christina Thompson Pdf

A book that perfectly balances memoir and history, interweaving a cross-cultural love story with the larger history of the colonial encounter 'A highly unusual blend of personal memoir, travel writing and anthropology' Lynne Truss, Sunday Times 'This book stands out because of its sharp, fine writing ... strong and compulsive' New Statesman _______________________________ Come On Shore and We Will Kill And Eat You All is a sensitive and vibrant portrayal of the cultural collision between Westerners and Maoris, from Abel Tasman's discovery of New Zealand in 1642 to the author's unlikely romance with a Maori man. An intimate account of two centuries of friction and fascination, this intriguing and unpredictable book weaves a path through time and around the world in a rich exploration of the past and the future that it leads to.

Author : Allen Curnow
Publisher : Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015008520804

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The Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse by Allen Curnow Pdf

Author : Patricia Burns
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015019643173

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Fatal Success by Patricia Burns Pdf

Author : Gordon McLauchlan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-20
Category : New Zealand
ISBN : 1869538439

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A Short History of New Zealand by Gordon McLauchlan Pdf

A new edition of the bestselling short history on New Zealand, updated to include the Helen Clark years, the rise of John Key, the Christchurch earthquakes and the 2011 Rugby World Cup!

Author : Paul Moon
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742532431

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A Savage Country by Paul Moon Pdf

New Zealand in the 1820s had no government or bureaucratic presence; no newspapers were published; the literate population was probably no more than a couple of dozen people at any one time. Early explorers' assessments of New Zealand were haphazard at best - few knew what to make of this foreign land and its people. In this groundbreaking history of early New Zealand, Paul Moon details how so many of the events in this decade - the introduction of aggressive capitalism, the arrival of literacy and the beginnings of Maori print culture, intertribal warfare, Hongi Hika and the British connection, colonisation as a simultaneously destructive and beneficial force - influenced the nation's evolution over the remainder of the century. Moon leaves no stone unturned in his examination of this dynamic and fascinating pre-Treaty era. Surprising and engaging, A Savage Country does not merely recount events but takes us inside a changing country, giving a real sense of history as it happened. 'Paul Moon has produced an engrossing account of a singular, violent and confused decade in New Zealand's history.' Paul Little, North & South

Author : Janet Davidson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0582718120

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The Prehistory of New Zealand by Janet Davidson Pdf

Author : Patrick Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002115635

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The Penguin History of New Zealand Literature by Patrick Evans Pdf

Author : Philippa Mein Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107663367

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A Concise History of New Zealand by Philippa Mein Smith Pdf

New Zealand was the last major landmass, other than Antarctica, to be settled by humans. The story of this rugged and dynamic land is beautifully narrated, from its origins in Gondwana some 80 million years ago to the twenty-first century. Philippa Mein Smith highlights the effects of the country's smallness and isolation, from its late settlement by Polynesian voyagers and colonisation by Europeans - and the exchanges that made these people Maori and Pakeha - to the dramatic struggles over land and recent efforts to manage global forces. A Concise History of New Zealand places New Zealand in its global and regional context. It unravels key moments - the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, the Anzac landing at Gallipoli, the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior - showing their role as nation-building myths and connecting them with the less dramatic forces, economic and social, that have shaped contemporary New Zealand.

Author : James Belich
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0824825179

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Making Peoples by James Belich Pdf

Now in paper This immensely readable book, full of drama and humor as well as scholarship, is a watershed in the writing of New Zealand history. In making many new assertions and challenging many historical myths, it seeks to reinterpret our approach to the past. Given New Zealand's small population, short history, and great isolation, the history of the archipelago has been saddled with a reputation for mundanity. According to James Belich, however, it is just these characteristics that make New Zealand "a historian's paradise: a laboratory whose isolation, size, and recency is an advantage, in which the grand themes of world history are often played out more rapidly, more separately, and therefore more discernably, than elsewhere." The first of two planned volumes, Making Peoples begins with the Polynesian settlement and its development into the Maori tribes in the eleventh century. It traces the great encounter between independent Maoridom and expanding Europe from 1642 to 1916, including the foundation of the Pakeha, the neo-Europeans of New Zealand, between the 1830s and the 1880s. It describes the forging of a neo-Polynesia and a neo-Britain and the traumatic interaction between them. The author carefully examines the myths and realities that drove the colonialization process and suggests a new "living" version of one of the most critical and controversial documents in New Zealand's history, the Treaty of Waitangi, frequently descibed as New Zealand's Magna Carta. The construction of peoples, Maori and Pakeha, is a recurring theme: the response of each to the great shift from extractive to sustainable economics; their relationship with their Hawaikis, or ancestors, with each other, and with myth. Essential reading for anyone interested in New Zealand history and in the history of new societies in general.

Author : Hamish Clayton
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459621961

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Wulf (Large Print 16pt) by Hamish Clayton Pdf

Early nineteenth century New Zealand ? the great chief Te Rauparaha has conquered tiny Kapiti Island, from where Ngati Toa launches brutal attacks on its southern enemies. Off the coast of Kapiti, English trader John Stewart seeks to trade with Te Rauparaha, setting off a train of events that forever change the course of New Zealand history. Nar...