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The hollow society and its fillers, Ruth Butterworth
The Nationbuilders Brian Easton Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 186940260X Economic history is not much taught, written or researched in New Zealand. It seems to be the poor relation in university economics departments, losing out to the pedlars of doctrine…
Roads to nowhere? Ruth Butterworth
Building the Constitution ed Colin James Institute of Policy Studies, $45, ISBN 090893548X Some time in 1997, with the prolonged aftermath of the first MMP election still agitating the establishment and mightily diverting the rest of us, the idea gained…
Tagged with: Colin James, Institute of Policy Studies, Issue 48, Ruth Butterworth, Summer 1999
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
The power of words and rituals, Ruth Butterworth
The Source of the Song. New Zealand Writers on Catholicism Mark Williams (ed) Auckland University Press, $24.95 ISBN 086473 2872 Catholicism as a “cultural force”? Andrew Johnston very properly has trouble with the whole notion of a separable entity. Anne…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 22, Mark Williams, Ruth Butterworth
Posted in Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Barbarians at the gate? Penny Fenwick
A Shakeup Anyway ‑ Government and the Universities in New Zealand in a Decade of Reform Ruth Butterworth and Nicholas Tarling Auckland University Press, $34.95 Universities are amongst the most enduring of all social institutions ‑ a state of affairs…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 16, Nicholas Tarling, Penny Fenwick, Ruth Butterworth, Summer 1994
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Volume marred by lack of critical analysis, Ruth Butterworth
Claiming the Law: Essays by New Zealand Women in Celebration of the 1993 Suffrage Centennial Elisabeth McDonald and Graeme Austin (eds), Victoria University Press, $29.95 I was brought up in a matriarchy, educated at a girls’ school by confident women…
Tagged with: Elisabeth McDonald, Graeme Austin, Issue 10, Ruth Butterworth, Spring 1993, Victoria University Press
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review