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Crockery and bad language, Jock Phillips
Disputed Histories: Imagining New Zealand’s Pasts Tony Ballantyne and Brian Moloughney (ed) Otago University Press, $49.95, ISBN 1877276161 This immensely stimulating volume began life as a tribute to Erik Olssen on the occasion of his retirement from Otago University. The…
Tagged with: Brian Moloughney, Issue 76, Jock Phillips, Otago University Press, Summer 2006, Tony Ballantyne
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Rediscovering the great white discoverer, Jock Phillips
The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas Anne Salmond Allen Lane, $59.95, ISBN 0713996617 I will not forget reading Anne Salmond’s Two Worlds. I was on holiday at Tolaga Bay. Between walks to Cook’s Cove…
Tagged with: Allen Lane, Anne Salmond, Autumn 2003, Issue 61, Jock Phillips
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Mating rituals, Jock Phillips
Mates text by Jim Hopkins, photos by Julie Riley HarperCollins, $29.95, ISBN 1869503678 Telephone rings. S.Nag: Hullo. Sam here. B.Loke: Gidday, mate. Brucey here. How about coming down to the pub to watch the footie on the big screen?…
Tagged with: December 2001, HarperCollins, Issue 51, Jim Hopkins, Jock Phillips, Julie Riley
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Historians for hire, David Grant
Going Public: the Changing Face of New Zealand History ed Bronwyn Dalley and Jock Phillips Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 186940226X If I were an insecure sort of chap, I might be worried about what I actually do for a…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bronwyn Dalley, December 2001, Issue 51, Jock Phillips
Posted in History, Non-fiction
Posted in History, Non-fiction
The limits of historiography, Jock Phillips
Pakeha Maori Trevor Bentley Penguin Books, $34.95, ISBN 0 14 0285540 7 Being Pakeha Now Michael King Penguin Books, $34.95, ISBN 0 14 028438 9 These two books share much – same price, same publisher, about the same length, and…
Tagged with: Issue 41, Jock Phillips, Michael King, Penguin Books, Trevor Bentley
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Sacrificing the personal for the political, Jock Phillips
Ettie: A Life of Ettie Rout Jane Tolerton, Penguin Books, $39.95 Ettie Rout has been known to us primarily as the woman who stood on the platform in Paris during the Great War and handed out anti-VD kits to soldiers…
Tagged with: Ettie Rout, Issue 7, Jane Tolerton, Jock Phillips, Penguin Books, Summer 1992
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
The Yanks in New Zealand, Andrew Mason
Brief Encounter Jock Phillips, Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, $29.95 United States Forces in New Zealand 1942-45 Denys Bevan, self-published, Kakanui Post Shop, $39.95 The Yanks Are Coming Harry Bioletti, Century Hutchinson, 1989, out of print It is fifty…
Tagged with: Andrew Mason, Century Hutchinson, Denys Bevan, Department of Internal Affairs, Harry Bioletti, Historical Branch, Issue 7, Jock Phillips, Summer 1992
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
The historian who opened our eyes, Jock Phillips
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