“I think I am becoming a New Zealander”: Letters of J C Beaglehole Tim Beaglehole (ed) Victoria University Press, $80.00, ISBN 9780864739025 For someone such as myself, this is an engrossing book. I had met J C Beaglehole (his preferred…
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Reconsidering a juvenile critique, Jock Phillips
Tagged with: Autumn 2014, Issue 105, J C Beaglehole, Jock Phillips, Tim Beaglehole, Victoria University Press
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
The scholar’s conscience, Rachael Bell
J C Beaglehole: Public Intellectual, Critical Conscience Doug Munro Steele Roberts, $25.00, ISBN 9781877577802 In 1946, Victoria University College historian J C Beaglehole wrote of New Zealand’s nascent national identity and the historian’s contribution to the development of national life.…
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Tagged with: Doug Munro, Issue 103, J C Beaglehole, Rachael Bell, Spring 2013, Steele Roberts
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
A life lived to the full, Tom Brooking
A Life of J C Beaglehole: New Zealand Scholar Tim Beaglehole Victoria University Press, $69.95, ISBN 0864735227 John Cawte Beaglehole remains New Zealand’s best-known and most highly regarded historian internationally. None of the numerous Cook biographies published since his magisterial…
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Tagged with: Issue 76, J C Beaglehole, Summer 2006, Tim Beaglehole, Tom Brooking, Victoria University Press
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review