The Earl and the Struggle for Power Father and Son: The Duke De la Pole by Michele Schindler
$68.95 AUD
Category: History
John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk (1442-1492) was a major magnate in fifteenth-century England. His youth was overshadowed by the political fall and subsequent murder of his father, who had been a favourite of King Henry VI but was increasingly distrusted by the rest of the nobility. His second marri ...Show more
Histories of Hate: The Radical Right in Aotearoa New Zealand by Matthew Cunningham, Marinus La Rooij, Paul Spoonley
$54.95 AUD
Category: History
Histories of Hate explores intolerance and extremism in Aotearoa New Zealand, from the emergence of the precursors to the radical right during British settlement in the late nineteenth century to today' s QAnon conspiracists and keyboard warriors. A definitive, benchmark text, this volume sheds light on ...Show more
The Fate of the Land | Ko ngā Ākinga a ngā Rangatira — Māori Political Struggle in the Liberal Era, 1891-1912 by Danny Keenan
$71.95 AUD
Category: History
In the second half of the nineteenth century, settlers poured into Aotearoa demanding land. Millions of acres were acquired by the government or directly by settlers; or confiscated after the Land Wars. By 1891, when the Liberal government came to power, Maori retained only a fraction of their lands. An ...Show more
St Kilda 1841-1900 Movers and Shakers and Money Makers by Carmel McKenzie
$59.95 AUD
Category: History
VICTORIAN PREMIER’S HISTORY AWARD WINNER St Kilda 1841–1900 is a beautifully presented and profusely illustrated social history of one of Melbourne’s best-known bayside suburbs. Having identified the driving forces behind the early urban development of what was an attractive grassy knoll, Carmel McKen ...Show more
Complete Practical Guide to Keeping Chickens by Fred Hams
$39.95 AUD
Category: Natural History
This comprehensive book contains all the information that you need in order to start keeping poultry. A buyer's guide shows what features to look for in healthy poultry, and essential information is provided on good poultry husbandry to ensure optimum welfare. A beautifully illustrated guide to poultr ...Show more
A Bloody Difficult Subject - Ruth Ross, te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Making of History by Bain Attwood
$59.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
One historian's research and the transformation of te Tiriti in New Zealand life.
Te Rautakitahi o Tūhoe Ki Ōrākau: Remarkable account in te reo Māori of Tūhoe involvement in the battle of Ōrākau. (Rau Pukapuka series) by Pou Temara
$43.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Kotahi Rau Pukapuka | Reading Level: near fine
He kōrero hirahira tēnei i te reo Māori o tā Tūhoe whai wāhi ki te pakanga ki Ōrākau. Ko Te Rautakitahi o Tūhoe ki Ōrākau, he kōrero whakahirahira nā Tā William Te Rangiua ‘Pou’ Temara i te reo Māori mō tā Tūhoe whai wāhi ki te pae o te riri ki Ōrākau i ngā pakanga o Aotearoa. He mea tuhi te kōrero nei ...Show more
Mihaia - The Prophet Rua Kenana and his Community at Maungapohatu by Judith Binney, Gillian Chaplin and Craig Wallace
$49.95 AUD
Category: History
Rua Kenana was an extraordinary prophetic leader from the Urewera. Resisting threats to expel the Tühoe people from their ancestral lands, he established a remarkable communityat Maungapohatu, identifying himself as the ‘Míhaia’ or ‘Messiah’ for Túhoe. Judith Binney, Gillian Chaplin and Craig Wallace re ...Show more
Te Hahi Mihinare - The Maori Anglican Church by Hirini Kaa
$49.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
This ground-breaking book explores the emergence of Te Hahi Mihinare - the Maori Anglican Church. Anglicanism, brought to New Zealand by English missionaries in 1814, was made widely known by Maori evangelists, as iwi adapted the religion to make it their own. The ways in which Mihinare (Maori Anglicans ...Show more
Too Much Money - How Wealth Disparities Are Unbalancing Aotearoa New Zealand by Max Rashbrooke
$39.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Today, someone in the wealthiest 1 per cent of adults – a club of some 40,000 people – has a net worth 68 times that of the average New Zealander. Too Much Money is the story of how wealth inequality is changing Aotearoa New Zealand. Possessing wealth opens up opportunities to live in certain areas, ge ...Show more
This Pakeha Life - An Unsettled Memoir by Alison Jones
$39.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
This book is about my making sense here, of my becoming and being Pakeha. Every Pakeha becomes a Pakeha in their own way, finding her or his own meaning for that Maori word. This is the story of what it means to me. I have written this book for Pakeha - and other New Zealanders - curious about their sen ...Show more
Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History by Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney, Aroha Harris
$99.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Second hand. Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History charts the sweep of Māori history from ancient origins through to the twenty-first century. Through narrative and images, it offers a striking overview of the past, grounded in specific localities and histories.The story begins with the migration of a ...Show more