Mata Toa: The Life and Times of Ranginui Walker Paul Spoonley Penguin Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780143019893 Ranginui Walker is one of the most widely read Maori writers and commentators of our generation. His acclaimed Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou (1990) is…
Waitangi and Indigenous Rights: revolution, law and legitimation F M Brookfield Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 86940 184 0 Recalling Aotearoa: indigenous politics and ethnic relations in New Zealand Augie Fleras and Paul Spoonley Oxford University Press, $39.95, ISBN…
Inventing New Zealand. Everyday Myths of Pakeha Identity Claudia Bell Penguin, $29.95 ISBN 0140244964 The last decades have been the final unravelling of the great empires that marked the beginning of the century, both capitalist and communist, and of the…
Immigration and National Identity in New Zealand: One People, Two Peoples, Many Peoples? Stuart W Greif (ed) Dunmore Press, $39.95 ISBN 0864602382 Some things endure. One is the hostility towards those from Asia who have chosen to emigrate to New…
The Treaty Now William Renwick, GP Books, Wellington, 1990, $24.95 Mana Tiriti: The Art of Protest and Partnership Haeta, Project Waitangi and City Art Gallery, Wellington City Council, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Wellington, 1991, $24.95 The Treaty Now examines the development…