Good-bye Maori-land: The Songs and Sounds of New Zealand`s Great War, Chris Bourke

Автор: Littlewood, David (massey University, New Zealand)
Название: Military service tribunals and boards in the great war
ISBN: 1138206601 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138206601
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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While a plethora of studies have discussed why so many men decided to volunteer for the army during the Great War, the experiences of those who were called up under conscription have received relatively little scrutiny. Even when the implementation of the respective Military Service Acts has been investigated, scholars have usually focused on only the distinct minority of those eligible who expressed conscientious objections. It is rare to see equal significance placed on the fact that substantial numbers of men appealed, or were appealed for, on the grounds that their domestic, business, or occupational circumstances meant they should not be expected to serve. David Littlewood analyses the processes undergone by these men, and the workings of the bodies charged with assessing their cases, through a sustained transnational comparison of the British and New Zealand contexts.

Автор: Greg Ryan, Geoff Watson
Название: Sport and the New Zealanders: A History
ISBN: 1869408837 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781869408831
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: A history of New Zealanders and the sports that we have made our own, from the Maori world to today`s professional athletes.

Автор: Wishart Ian
Название: The Great Divide: The Story of New Zealand & Its Treaty
ISBN: 0987657364 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780987657367
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Описание: New Zealand to many is 'Middle Earth', home of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but it was also the last major land mass on the planet to be settled by humans. The country was catapulted kicking and screaming from the stone age to the space age within 200 years of Captain Cook setting foot there... Who really got to New Zealand first? Which version of the Treaty of Waitangi is the most accurate? What impact did a massive asteroid strike in the 15th century have on human settlement in the South Pacific? IT'S A STORY THAT WILL SURPRISE YOU The biggest known earthquake-caused tsunami can create 60 metre walls of water - around six times larger than the Japan tsunami. This New Zealand one created by what is now known as the Mahuika comet strike - after the Maori god of fire - was what scientists call a "mega-tsunami", 220 metres tall, 22 times higher than the Japanese tsunami, as it thundered up the South Island's east coast. Waves that high have been known to penetrate up to 45km inland in other parts of the world. To put this in perspective, if you were dining in the revolving restaurant at Auckland's Sky Tower, 190 metres off the ground, you would still be 30 metres (100ft) underwater. A STORY TOLD WITH HUMOUR: When dawn broke the following morning, more canoes pulled alongside and translator Tupaea remarked to Cook the overnight guests were yelling over the rails to their friends, "It's OK to come on board, the white men don't eat people!" "From which," Cook wryly and cautiously noted in his journal, "it should seem that these people have such a Custom among them." IN THE VOICES OF THOSE WHO WERE THERE: "About dinner time three canoes came alongside of much the most simple construction of any we have seen, being no more than the trunks of trees hollowed out by fire without the least carving or even the addition of a washboard on their gunnels. "The people in them were almost naked and blacker than any we had seen - only 21 in all - yet these few despicable gentry sang their song of defiance and promised us as heartily as the most respectable of their countrymen that they would kill us all." A STORY OF MISPLACED TRUST: Turning to Lieutenant Roux, du Fresne added: "How can you expect me to have a bad opinion of a people who show me so much friendship? As I only do good to them, assuredly they will do me no evil." AND THE CLASH OF CULTURES: By seven pm, word came through from the ships that "a great many more canoes, full of natives, had landed on the island." This was an all-out war involving, on one side, a battalion-strength team of Maori warriors drawn apparently from numerous tribes (about as many warriors as the current New Zealand Army can comfortably muster for any single military tour at the moment), and on the other 50 armed Frenchmen, most of them sailors. One side, of course, had gunpowder. The other side desperately wanted gunpowder. AND LESSONS LEARNED THE HARD WAY: Northland Maori in particular were beginning to amass quite a collection of captured weaponry, from the tempered steel of cutlasses and swords to the power of the mighty musket. The cardinal rule - never bang a casket of gunpowder - had been tested and learnt by the Ngati Uru of Whangaroa - and Maoridom's inevitable catch-up with European technology and power was well underway. There was, however, an even more potent force sailing over the horizon: missionaries. IN SHORT, IT'S OUR STORY...a story of migrants, the people they met, the future they forged.

Автор: Hill L. B.
Название: The Model Ombudsman: Institutionalizing New Zealand`s Democratic Experiment
ISBN: 0691616825 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691616827
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: One increasingly popular device for achieving a balance between authority and accountability in government is the institution of the ombudsman. The first non-Scandinavian ombudsman appeared in New Zealand in 1962, and since then the office has spread to many countries and been adopted at different levels of government. This book--the first intensiv

Автор: Buick
Название: New Zealand`s First War
ISBN: 1108039987 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108039987
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: First published in 1926, Buick`s book analyses the Flagstaff War (1845-6), which arose over sovereignty and land rights in colonial New Zealand. It focuses on the prominent role of Nga Puhi chief Hone Heke, explores the complex relationships among the factions, and describes the course of the war itself.

Автор: Christopher Pugsley
Название: Le Quesnoy 1918: New Zealands Last Battle
ISBN: 0947506497 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780947506490
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Описание: Battlefield account of the New Zealand Division`s capture of the French town of Le Quesnoy in its last and most successful action in the First World War. Strikingly illustrated with maps, photographs and the stunning paintings of the battle by George Butler, Le Quesnoy 1918 is an inspiring book by an outstanding military historian.

Автор: Susanna Andrew, Jolissa Gracewood
Название: Tell You What: Great New Zealand Nonfiction 2017
ISBN: 1869408608 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781869408602
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: 2016`s Tell You What was "quiet a ride...a gripping, thought provoking and inspiring reminder of how much talent is out there"(KiaOra), featuring "some of New Zealand`s best writers" (The Australian Women`s Weekly). The 2017 edition of Tell You What once again promises an intellectually stimulating summer for readers.

Автор: Avril Bell, Vivienne Elizabeth, Tracey McIntosh, Matt Wynyard
Название: A Land of Milk and Honey?: Making Sense of Aotearoa New Zealand
ISBN: 1869408624 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781869408626
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Описание: Since colonisation, New Zealand has been mythologised as a ‘land of milk and honey’– a promised land of natural abundance and endless opportunity. In the twenty-first century, the country has become literally a land of milk and honey as agricultural exports from such commodities dominate the national economy. But does New Zealand live up to its promise?In this introductory textbook for first year sociology students, some of this country’s leading social scientists help us to make sense of contemporary New Zealand. In 21 chapters, the authors examine New Zealand’s political identity and constitution; our M?ori, P?keh?, Pacific and Asian peoples; problems of class, poverty and inequality; gender and sexualities; and contemporary debates around ageing, incarceration and the environment. The authors find a complex society where thirty years of neoliberal economics and globalising politics have exacerbated inequalities that are differentially experienced by class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and age. These social divides and problems are at the heart of this text.For sociology students and for a wider audience of New Zealanders, A Land of Milk and Honey? is a lively introduction to where we have come from, where we are now, and where New Zealand society might be headed.

Автор: Mccabe, Jane (university Of Otago, New Zealand)
Название: Race, tea and colonial resettlement
ISBN: 1350090999 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350090996
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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WINNER OF THE IAN WARDS PRIZE 2018

By the early 20th century, the ideology of racial distance predominated in British India. This simultaneously threw a spotlight on the 'Anglo-Indian problem' and sent intimate relationships between British colonials and Indian women into the shadows of history. One Scottish missionary's solution was to isolate and raise the mixed-race children of British tea planters in an institution in Kalimpong - in the foothills of the Himalayas - before permanently resettling them far from their maternal homeland as workers in New Zealand.

Historian Jane McCabe leads us through a compelling research journey that began with uncovering the story of her own grandmother, Lorna Peters, one of 130 adolescents resettled in New Zealand under the scheme between 1908 and 1938. Using records from the 'Homes' in Kalimpong and in-depth interviews with other descendants in New Zealand, she crafts a compelling, evocative, and unsentimental yet moving narrative -- one that not only brings an untold part of imperial history to light, but also transforms previously broken and hushed family histories into an extraordinary collective story.

This book attends to both the affective dimension of these traumatic familial disruptions, and to the larger economic and political drivers that saw government and missionary schemes breaking up Anglo-Indian families -- schemes that relied on future forgetting.