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Treaty flows, Alex Calder
Treaty of Waitangi: The Land is Our History: Indigeneity, Law, and the Settler State Miranda Johnson Oxford University Press, $41.00, ISBN 9780190600020 Reconciliation, Representation and Indigeneity: “Biculturalism” in Aotearoa New Zealand Peter Adds, Brigitte Bönish-Brednich, Richard S Hill, Graeme Whimp…
Tagged with: Alex Calder, Autumn 2017, Brigitte Bönish-Brednich, Graeme Whimp, Issue 117, Miranda Johnson, Oxford University Press, Peter Adds, Richard S Hill, Universitätsverlag
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Powerful peace, Robert Sullivan
Te Whiti o Rongomai and the Resistance of Parihaka Danny Keenan Huia, $45.00, ISBN 9781775501954 This account of the non-violent resistance movement founded by the prophets Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi at the Taranaki settlement of Parihaka begins…
Tagged with: Autumn 2017, Danny Keenan, Huia, Issue 117, Robert Sullivan
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, War
Creating taonga, Trevor Agnew
Maui and other Māori Legends: 8 Classic Tales of Aotearoa Peter Gossage Puffin $40.00, ISBN 9780143309291 What a delight! Maui and other Māori Legends contains eight complete picture books in one handsome hardback, complete with embossed cover, glossary and bookmark…
Tagged with: Autumn 2017, Issue 117, Peter Gossage, Puffin, Trevor Agnew
Posted in Children, Literature, Māori
Posted in Children, Literature, Māori
“The messy abundance”, Lydia Wevers
Entanglements of Empire: Missionaries, Māori, and the Question of the Body Tony Ballantyne Auckland University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781869408268 Tony Ballantyne is famous throughout the world of imperial and colonial history for his invention of the very useful term “webs…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2016, Issue 113, Lydia Wevers, Tony Ballantyne
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Māori and Crown relationships Rewa Morgan
Kūpapa – The Bitter Legacy of Māori Alliances with the Crown Ron Crosby Penguin Random House, $65.00, ISBN 9780143573111 Recently, we as a nation have experienced more commemoration and public history about New Zealand’s military history than ever before. We…
Tagged with: Autumn 2016, Issue 113, Penguin Random House, Ron Crosby
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
A shadowy part of the country’s history, Paul Moon
From Alba to Aotearoa: Profiling New Zealand’s Scots Migrants 1840-1920 Rebecca Lenihan Otago University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781877578793 Migration, Ethnicity, and Madness: New Zealand, 1860-1910 Angela McCarthy Otago University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781927322000 The 12th century; 1642; 1769. These are…
Tagged with: Angela McCarthy, Autumn 2016, Issue 113, Otago University Press, Paul Moon, Rebecca Lenihan
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Tangata ora, Matariki Williams
Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney and Aroha Harris Bridget Williams Books, $100.00, ISBN 9781927131411 The final chapter of the weighty Tangata Whenua is titled “Tangata Whenua, Tangata Ora”, and the book could just as easily have…
Tagged with: Aroha Harris, Atholl Anderson, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 111, Judith Binney, Spring 2015
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
The museum as a book, Tim Walker
Take These With You When You Leave: Treasures of the Archive Georgina White MTG Hawke’s Bay ISBN 9780992259600 Architecture of the Heart Lucy Hammonds and Douglas Lloyd Jenkins MTG Hawke’s Bay ISBN 9780992259624 Ūkaipō – ō tātou whakapapa: The Identity…
Tagged with: Douglas Lloyd Jenkins, Georgina White, Issue 107, Lucy Hammonds, Migoto Eria, MTG Hawke’s Bay, Spring 2014, Tim Walker
Posted in Art, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Mishmash history, Nepia Mahuika
Beyond Betrayal, Trouble in the Promised Land – Restoring the Mission to Maori Keith Newman Penguin, $45.00, ISBN 9780143570516 Most Maori I know have a different view of the past to the nation-building rhetoric that inhabits the majority of mainstream…
Tagged with: Autumn 2014, Issue 105, Keith Newman, Nepia Mahuika, Penguin Books
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review