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The voyage out, Deborah Montgomerie
Over the Mountains of the Sea: Life on Migrant Ships, 1870-1885 David Hastings Auckland University Press, $49.95, ISBN 1869403754 When I was an undergraduate, one of the perennial questions examiners asked in the first-year course in 19th century New Zealand…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, David Hastings, Deborah Montgomerie, Issue 78, Winter 2007
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
What the Inspector of Nuisances saw, Deborah Montgomerie
Dirt: Filth and Decay in a New World Arcadia Pamela Wood Auckland University Press, $44.99, ISBN 1869403487 Cleanliness may be next to godliness, but dirt is so much more interesting. Pamela Wood’s smart and insightful history of the varieties of…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2006, Deborah Montgomerie, Issue 73, Pamela Wood
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Delicate flowers of the wasteland, Les Cleveland
Love in Time of War: Letter Writing in the Second World War Deborah Montgomerie Auckland University Press, $35.00, ISBN 1869403363 Freyberg’s War: The Man, the Legend, the Reality Matthew Wright Penguin Books, $35.00, ISBN 0143019856 Western Front: The New Zealand…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Deborah Montgomerie, HarperCollins, Ian McGibbon, Issue 71, Jonathan King, Les Cleveland, Matthew Wright, Megan Hutching, Michael Bowers, Pat White, Penguin Books, Random House, Red Books, Reed Books, Spring 2005
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Dancing in time, Alison Gray
The Gendered Kiwi ed Caroline Daley and Deborah Montgomerie Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 86940 219 7 Girls and Women, Men and Boys: Gender in Taradale 1886-1930 Caroline Daley Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 86940 211 1 “Will…
Tagged with: Alison Gray, Auckland University Press, Caroline Daley, Deborah Montgomerie, Issue 44
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Patchwork, Deborah Montgomerie
Fragments: New Zealand Social and Cultural History ed Bronwyn Dalley and Bronwyn Labrum Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 86940 185 9 Fragments bills itself as a step towards a Brave New World of sophisticated histories of New Zealand life,…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 1999, Bronwyn Dalley, Bronwyn Labrum, Deborah Montgomerie, Issue 45
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology