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History, memory and representation, Alfio Leotta
The Camera in the Crowd: Filming New Zealand in Peace and War: 1895-1920 Christopher Pugsley Oratia Books, $80.00, ISBN 9780947506346 Filming the Colonial Past: The New Zealand Wars on Screen Annabel Cooper University of Otago Press, $50.00, ISBN 9781988531083 As…
Tagged with: Alfio Leotta, Christopher Pugsley, Issue 126, Oratia Books, University of Otago Press, Winter 2019
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Stirring up the dust, John McLellan
Tutu Te Puehu: New Perspectives on the New Zealand Wars John Crawford and Ian McGibbon (eds) Steele Roberts, $50.00, ISBN 9780947493721 In February 2011, over 150 years after the start of the First Taranaki War, the first ever conference dedicated…
Tagged with: Ian McGibbon, Issue 126, John Crawford, John McLellan, Steele Roberts, Winter 2019
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, War
Colonial orientalism, Paula Morris
Galleries of Maoriland: Artists, Collectors and the Māori World, 1880–1910 Roger Blackley Auckland University Press, $75.00, ISBN 9781869409357 The cover image of Roger Blackley’s impressive new book is a famous one: a tea break in Charles Goldie’s frame-stacked studio in…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2019, Issue 125, Roger Blackley
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Going high, Julia Millen
To the Mountains: A Collection of New Zealand Alpine Writing Laurence Fearnley and Paul Hersey (eds) Otago University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781988531205 Since the arrival of Pacific peoples, New Zealand’s mountains have enthralled and enchanted. Māori revered the craggy peaks…
Tagged with: Autumn 2019, Issue 125, Julia Millen, Laurence Fearnley, Otago University Press, Paul Hersey
Posted in History, Literature, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Literature, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
The good, the bad and the ugly, John O’Leary
Scoundrels and Eccentrics of the Pacific John Dunmore Upstart Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781988516219 William Deans: The Passionate Pioneer Louise Deans Wily Publications, $35.00, ISBN: 9781927167342 Just as Australia’s Outback has its “characters” (according to popular legend, at least), so that…
Tagged with: Autumn 2019, Issue 125, John Dunmore, John O’Leary, Upstart Press, Wily Publications
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Undercooked, Paul Moon
The Pacific in the Wake of Captain Cook, with Sam Neill Meaghan Wilson Anastasios HarperCollins, $45.00, ISBN 9781460756393 Is there anything new to say about Captain James Cook’s expeditions to the Pacific? Edited accounts of his voyages appeared from 1773…
Tagged with: HarperCollins, Issue 124, Meaghan Wilson Anastasios, Paul Moon, Sam Neill, Summer 2018
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Down by the river, Nicholas Reid
The Waikato – A History of New Zealand’s Greatest River Paul Moon Atuanui Press, $70.00, ISBN 9780994137616 At 425 kilometres, the Waikato is the longest river in New Zealand. The case Paul Moon makes in The Waikato – A History…
Tagged with: Atuanui Press, Issue 124, Nicholas Reid, Paul Moon, Summer 2018
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Whose history? Simon Hay
wThe Expatriate Myth: New Zealand Writers and the Colonial World Helen Bones Otago University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781988531175 The Expatriates Martin Edmond Bridget Williams Books, $50.00, ISBN 9781988533179 Helen Bones aims to dismantle the “myth” that New Zealand writers, in…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Helen Bones, Issue 123, Martin Edmond, Otago University Press, Simon Hay, Spring 2018
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
The costs of war, Jock Phillips
Gallipoli to the Somme: Recollections of a New Zealand Infantryman Alexander Aitken (Alex Calder ed) Auckland University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781869408817 Odyssey of the Unknown Anzac David Hastings Auckland University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781869408824 As we come towards the end…
Historical revisionism, Kirstie Ross
Phoney Wars: New Zealand Society in the Second World War Stevan Eldred-Grigg with Hugh Eldred-Grigg Otago University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9780947522230 The first Anzac Day during WWII shows us some of the multifarious, sometimes conflicting views of the war and…
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