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Obscuring the prominent, Miles Fairburn
The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography; Volume Four; 1921-1940 ed Claudia Orange Auckland University Press and Dept of Internal Affairs, $130.00, ISBN 8694 203 0 The dictionary of biography project has been a boon for academic historians working in New…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Claudia Orange, Dept of Internal Affairs, Issue 38, Miles Fairburn
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Computer Cartography, Miles Fairburn
New Zealand Historical Atlas: Visualising New Zealand Malcolm McKinnon (ed) David Bateman, $99.00 ISBN 1 86953335 6 The New Zealand Historical Atlas is a large and prestigious publication made up of 100 double pages (“plates”) of illustrative material and text.…
Tagged with: David Bateman, Issue 34, Malcolm McKinnon, Miles Fairburn
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
What new is there to tell? Miles Fairburn
Lands for the People? The Highland Clearances and the Colonisation of New Zealand: a Biography of John McKenzie Tom Brooking Otago University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 877133 21 3 There have been three reformist governments in New Zealand history. The…
Tagged with: Issue 27, John McKenzie, Miles Fairburn, Otago University Press, Tom Brooking, Winter 1997
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Mything our myths, Miles Fairburn
A History of the New Zealanders from Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth Century James Belich Allen Lane, Penguin, $59.95 ISBN 07139 91712 Writing a general history about New Zealand is an extraordinarily daunting and difficult task and…
Tagged with: Allen Lane, James Belich, Miles Fairburn, Penguin Books
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
The shapes of time, Shelagh Duckham Cox
The Certainty of Doubt. Tributes to Peter Munz Miles Fairburn and W H Oliver (eds) Victoria University Press, Wellington, $39.95 ISBN 086473302X Immigration is a strange enterprise. In 1966, just off the Northern Star, heading for the exit of the…
Tagged with: Issue 24, Miles Fairburn, Peter Munz, Shelagh Duckham Cox, Victoria University Press, W H Oliver
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Self-reliant in Victorian New Zealand, Erik Olssen
Nearly Out of Heart and Hope: The puzzle of a colonial labourer’s diary Miles Fairburn Auckland University Press, $39.95 ISBN 1869401182 Anybody familiar with New Zealand history is likely to feel a sense of excitement at the prospect of reading…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Erik Olssen, Issue 21, Miles Fairburn
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review