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New Zealand film: an overall view, John Roberts
The End of the Golden Weather directed by Ian Mune This is not a film review. Movie buffs please note. It is a reflection on a key work in the corpus of New Zealand literature and the use which a…
Tagged with: Bruce Mason, Ian Mune, Issue 5, John Roberts, Winter 1992
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
The Dictionary in retrospect, John Roberts
The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, Volume One, 1769-1869, Allen and Unwin (Bridget Williams Books) and the Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 1990, $120 Christendom is essentially a construct of biography. The Gospels relate the temporal genealogy, life and death…
Tagged with: Allen & Unwin, Bridget Williams Books, Department of Internal Affairs, Issue 5, John Roberts, Winter 1992
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Music as a cultural force: the lineaments of a tradition, John Roberts
The Oxford History of New Zealand Music John Mansfield Thomson Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1991, $69.95 This eagerly awaited book will take a high place in the company of recent reference works. The only cause for regret is that the…
Tagged with: Issue 2, John Mansfield Thomson, John Roberts, Oxford University Press, Winter 1991
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
What about the workers? A historical view, John Roberts
The Forgotten Worker: The Rural Wage Worker in Nineteenth Century New Zealand John E Martin, Allen and Unwin/Trade Union History Project, Wellington, 1990, $35.95 New Zealand Working People 1890-1990 Stevan Eldred-Grigg Dunmore Press, Palmerston North, 1990, $34.95 Nuclear Free:…
Right up there with Frame and McCahon, John Roberts
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