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The tides of labour, Len Richardson
Holding the Balance: A History of New Zealand’s Department of Labour 1891-1995 John E Martin Canturbury University Press, $49.95 limp, $69.95 cased, ISBN 0 908812 61 2 John Martin’s Holding the Balance is, in his own words, “a reassertion of…
Tagged with: Canturbury University Press, Issue 28, John E Martin, Len Richardson, Summer 1997
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Energy, compost and mulch, Lydia Wevers
Just Another Art Movement. It’s a cunning phrase, suggesting a knowing self-deprecation but also the tiny beginnings from which the noble bush of a future literary landscape might grow.Something has already grown, as I look at the pile of JAAMs…
‘And what happened next?’ Our stories, Nelson Wattie
Dove on the Waters Maurice Shadbolt David Ling Publishing, $39.95, ISBN 0 908990 40 5 In 1959, having just left a provincial home town and moved to the astonishingly big city of Auckland, I was busy trying out various ways…
Tagged with: David Ling Publishing, Issue 28, Maurice Shadbolt, Nelson Wattie, Summer 1997
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Pieces in the puzzle, Michael Bassett
John Banks: A Biography Paul Goldsmith Penguin Books, $34.95, ISBN 0 140 26712 3 Over recent years there has been some criticism of commissioned histories. An Australian academic, Louella McCarthy, writing in the New Zealand Journal of History in April…
Tagged with: Issue 28, John Banks, Michael Bassett, Paul Goldsmith, Penguin Books, Summer 1997
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Is bias one-sided? Bill Oliver
Muriwhenua Land Report Waitangi Tribunal GP Publications, $99.95 If academic historians need a reminder that they do not have a corner on the past, they could not do better than read this report. It is a formidable and elaborate intellectual…
Tagged with: Bill Oliver, GP Publications, Issue 28, Summer 1997, Waitangi Tribunal
Posted in Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
What about the suburbs? Alison Gray
Mum’s the Word: The untold story of motherhood in New Zealand Sue Kedgley Random House, $39.95, ISBN 1 86941 292 3 Striking a Balance: New Zealand women talk about career and family Jillian Stewart and Susan Davis Penguin Books, $24.95,…
Tagged with: Alison Gray, Ann Gluckman, Issue 28, Jillian Stewart, Mary Tagg, Penguin Books, Random House, Sandra Coney, Sue Kedgley, Summer 1997, Susan Davis, Tandem Press
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Why fire engines are red, Ian Thynne
Scandal at Cave Creek: A Shocking Failure in Public Accountability Graeme Hunt Waddington Publications in association with the National Business Review, $24.95, ISBN 0 473 03943 5 Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Collapse of a Viewing Platform…
It’s all in the touch, Janet Hughes
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