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Barbarians at the gate? Penny Fenwick
A Shakeup Anyway ‑ Government and the Universities in New Zealand in a Decade of Reform Ruth Butterworth and Nicholas Tarling Auckland University Press, $34.95 Universities are amongst the most enduring of all social institutions ‑ a state of affairs…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 16, Nicholas Tarling, Penny Fenwick, Ruth Butterworth, Summer 1994
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
An old‑fashioned life, David Mackay
Captain James Cook: A Biography Richard Hough Hodder & Stoughton, $54.95 Explorers do not always present easy subjects for biographers. Often the central achievements take up a relatively small portion of their lives and the doggedness and perseverance required for…
Tagged with: Captain James Cook, David Mackay, Hodder & Stoughton, Issue 16, Richard Hough, Summer 1994
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Operatically triumphant, Jeanine Graham
Edward Stafford: New Zealand’s First Statesman Edmund Bohan Hazard Press $49.95 Years of exposure to the drama and rhetoric of the performing arts and a professional lifetime of meticulous attention to accuracy and detail have enabled Edmund Bohan to bring…
Tagged with: Edmund Bohan, Edward Stafford, Issue 16, Jeanine Graham, Summer 1994
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Still on the margins, Anne Else
Suffrage and Beyond ‑ International Feminist Perspectives Caroline Daley and Melanie Nolan (eds) Auckland University Press, $39.95 The movement for women’s suffrage can be said to have begun at the World Anti‑Slavery Convention held in London in 1840, where American…
Tagged with: Anne Else, Auckland University Press, Caroline Daley, Issue 16, Melanie Nolan, Summer 1994
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
At odds with liberal times, Michael Laws
Catholic Girls Jane Tolerton Penguin, $24.95 Jane Tolerton’s new book is a series of interviews with 17 Catholic-educated women ranging from lawyers and businesswomen to politicians and other entertainers. Tolerton’s premise for these nostalgic reminiscences is that “the Catholic women…
Tagged with: Issue 16, Jane Tolerton, Michael Laws, Penguin, Summer 1994
Posted in Non-fiction, Religion, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Religion, Review, Sociology
It will all happen again, Brian Gaynor
Lost Property: The Crash of ’87…and the aftershock Olly Newland HarperCollins, $19.95 The mid‑1980s ‑ Allan Hawkins and Equiticorp, Fay and Connor slogging it out in Fremantle, Chase Corporation and mirror‑glass buildings, Bruce Judge, share clubs and investment seminars, Bob…
Tagged with: Brian Gaynor, HarperCollins, Issue 16, Olly Newland, Summer 1994
Posted in Economics, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Economics, History, Non-fiction, Review
Over‑respecting the person, Tony Bellette
Frances Hodgkins: Paintings and Drawings Iain Buchanan, Michael Dunn, Elizabeth Eastmond Auckland University Press, $79.95 Do we have any right to claim Frances Hodgkins? Famous expatriate artists, to be regarded as properly belonging to their land of birth, normally continue…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Elizabeth Eastmond, Frances Hodgkins, Iain Buchanan, Issue 16, Michael Dunn, Summer 1994, Tony Bellette
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
The need for a conservative rudder, Simon Upton
In 1987 I was rash enough to publish a slender volume of essays with the title The Withering of the State. It was written in the months preceding the biggest stock market crash for a generation and fully two years…
Poem — Graham Lindsay
Hospital in Kabul Girl with heavily bandaged right knee and bandages on the left leg down to her calf, beyond which nothing stares stricken-eyed. No one breaks the tableau nurse, doctor or member of the camera crew to rescue her…