Redesigning the Welfare State in New Zealand: Problems, Policies, Prospects eds Jonathan Boston, Paul Dalziel, Susan St John Oxford University Press, $45.00, ISBN 019 558 3736 6 A Super Future?: The Price of Growing Older in New Zealand Anne Else…
The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Military History ed Ian McGibbon, with the assistance of Paul Goldstone Oxford University Press, $89.95, ISBN 0195583760 The 20th century has seen a significant readjustment of New Zealand’s outlook on matters of defence.…
New Zealand Love Poems ed Lauris Edmond Oxford University Press, $45.00, ISBN 0195583981 Posthumous volumes invite a certain kind of reading, a feeling that, as this is the last time we will speak to the author, they are addressing us…
Travelling to New Zealand ed Lydia Wevers Oxford University Press, $59.95, ISBN 0195584112 It was literally the sort of pub where the conversation stops when a stranger walks in. Only there were just three customers, plus the proprietor, in…
Out of the Shadow of War: The German Connection with New Zealand in the Twentieth Century ed James Bade Oxford University Press, $39.95, ISBN 019 558363 9 This book is a companion volume to The German Connection: New Zealand and…
Feminist Thought in Aotearoa New Zealand, Connections and Differences ed Rosemary du Plessis and Lynne Alice Oxford University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0 19 558356 6 “Feminist scholarship is founded on contestation of hat counts as knowledge and what knowledge counts”, write…
The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature in English Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie (eds) Oxford University Press, $79.95 ISBN 0 19558348 5 The publication of this book should have been timed for the millennium. If there is going to…
The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English (2nd edition) Terry Sturm (ed) Oxford University Press, $89.95 ISBN 0 19558385 X That a second edition of this substantial reference-work has been required less than a decade after it was…
Te Mana Te Kawanatanga: The Politics of Maori Self-Determination Mason Durie Oxford University Press, $39.95 ISBN 019558367 1 Mai i Rangiatea: Maori Wellbeing and Development Pania Te Whaiti, Marie McCarthy and Arohia Durie (eds) Auckland University Press and Bridget Williams…
Salute to Service: A History of the Royal New Zealand Corps of Transport and its Predecessors, 1860-1996 Julia Millen Victoria University Press, $49.95 ISBN 0 86473 324 0 Jayforce: New Zealand and the Military Occupation of Japan, 1945-48 Laurie Brocklebank…