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Tangata ora, Matariki Williams
Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney and Aroha Harris Bridget Williams Books, $100.00, ISBN 9781927131411 The final chapter of the weighty Tangata Whenua is titled “Tangata Whenua, Tangata Ora”, and the book could just as easily have…
Tagged with: Aroha Harris, Atholl Anderson, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 111, Judith Binney, Spring 2015
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Obituary — Judith Binney
Judith Binney (1940-2011) Judith Binney dedicated her books to those from whom she herself had learnt: in 1995, Sir Monita Delamere and Sir Keith Sinclair; in 2009, Tuhoe’s great 19th-century leaders, “who chose to walk the long paths to peace”,…
History made and re-made, Bronwyn Dalley
Stories without End: Essays 1975-2010 Judith Binney Bridget Williams Books, $49.99, ISBN 9781877242472 Since reading Stories without End, a collection of Judith Binney’s essays, I’ve been talking with fellow historians about the collected works of other New Zealand historians.…
Tagged with: Autumn 2011, Bridget Williams Books, Bronwyn Dalley, Issue 93, Judith Binney
Posted in Essays, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, History, Non-fiction, Review
Lofty ideals and fatal flaws, Alan Ward
Encircled Lands: Te Urewera, 1820-1921 Judith Binney Bridget Williams Books, $79.99, ISBN 9781877242441 This is arguably the most important book on Maori-Pakeha relations to be published in the last quarter-century, unlikely to be equalled in this generation. Its importance stems…
Tagged with: Alan Ward, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 90, Judith Binney, Winter 2010
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Pioneering efforts, Tom Brooking
The Legacy of Guilt: A Life of Thomas Kendall Judith Binney Bridget Williams Books, $49.95, ISBN 1877242330 There are few New Zealand history books that can be described as seminal, that is, books so deep in their research and broad…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Issue 71, Judith Binney, Spring 2005, Thomas Kendall, Tom Brooking
Posted in Biography, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Argument without end, Michael King
The Shaping of History: Essays from The New Zealand Journal of History ed Judith Binney Bridget Williams Books, $49.95, ISBN 1877242179 Histories, Power and Loss: Uses of the Past – a New Zealand Commentary ed Andrew Sharp and Paul McHugh…
Tagged with: Andrew Sharp, Autumn 2001, Bain Attwood, Bridget Williams Books, Fiona Magowan, Issue 53, Judith Binney, Michael King, Paul McHugh
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
The making of new kinds of history, J G A Pocock
Redemption Songs: a life of Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki Judith Binney Auckland University Press and Bridget Williams Books, $79.95, ISBN 1 86940 131 x This book is a major achievement. Not, perhaps, of the printer’s and bookbinder’s art. It…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 1996, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 25, J G A Pocock, Judith Binney, Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Waves and ripples, Melanie Nolan
The Oxford Illustrated History of New Zealand Keith Sinclair (ed), Oxford University Press, 1990, $59.95 The People and The Land. Te Tangata Me Te Whenua Judith Bassett, Judith Binney, Erik Olssen Allen and Unwin/ Port Nicholson Press, Wellington, 1990, $59.95…
Tagged with: Allen & Unwin, Autumn 1991, Erik Olssen, Issue 1, Judith Bassett, Judith Binney, Keith Sinclair, Melanie Nolan, Oxford University Press, Port Nicholson Press
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review