The Cheyenne Party I know more people who want to write a book than I do those who know what party they’ll vote for in the next election which is a bit like saying I’ve seen in my time more…
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Local practice v wider trends, Stuart Murray
A timely if belated project, Lydia Wevers
When the twain did meet, Janet Wilson
Ending the century, Lauris Edmond
Fête Accomplie a New Zealander’s Culinary Romance Peta Mathias Random House, $24.95, ISBN 1869412486 Here is a test. Do you order your dinner in a restaurant in the French of the menu or do you use the small print translation…
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Tagged with: Issue 20, Lauris Edmond, Peta Mathias, Random House, Summer 1995
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Standing upright here, Hugh Roberts
Cinema of Unease Sam Neill and Judy Rymer Top Shelf Productions, British Film Institute, New Zealand Film Commission … and other recent New Zealand film The third and fourth generations Begin to speak differently, Suffering mutations, Cannot help identity; Nation’s…
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Tagged with: Hugh Roberts, Issue 20, Judy Rymer, Sam Neill, Summer 1995
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Why she did it, Margaret Clark
Making a Difference Ruth Richardson Shoal Bay Press, $29.95, ISBN 0908704313 When Ruth Richardson announced last year that she was leaving Parliament, journalists at the press conference asked if she was bitter. “I do not have a bitter bone in…
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Tagged with: Issue 20, Margaret Clark, Ruth Richardson, Shoal Bay Press, Summer 1995
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
When “liberal and progressive” was OK, Simon Upton
Coates of Kaipara Michael Bassett Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 869401174 For over a decade now public policy in New Zealand has been heavily infused with theory. Politicians have embraced expert advisers and internalised the “science” of economics with…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 20, Michael Bassett, Simon Upton, Summer 1995
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Work and community, Len Richardson
Building the New World: Work, Politics and Society in Caversham, 1880s‑1920s Erik Olssen Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1869401069 Work and play, the polar opposites commonly held to preoccupy that indefinable beast “the ordinary New Zealander” have not attracted quite…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Erik Olssen, Issue 20, Len Richardson, Summer 1995
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
A time of transition, Margaret Tennant
Her Work and His. Family Kin and Community in New Zealand 1900-1930 Claire Toynbee Victoria University Press, $34.95, ISBN 0864732848 Dialogue between historians and sociologists in New Zealand has been very limited. Where historians have acknowledged historical writing by sociologists,…
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Tagged with: Claire Toynbee, Issue 20, Margaret Tennant, Summer 1995, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology