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“New Zealand’s leading public historian”, Tom Brooking
Making History: A New Zealand Story Jock Phillips Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869408992 Jock Phillips has written an engaging memoir of his challenge to his father’s Anglophile and Eurocentric view of history, and transition from an academic to a…
Tagged with: Auckland University Pres, Issue 128, Jock Phillips, Summer 2019, Tom Brooking
Posted in History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Gloomy agreement, Tom Brooking
The New Zealand Project Max Harris Bridget Williams Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780947492588 New Zealand: Paradise Squandered? Reflections on What We’ve Lost and Where We’re Heading John Hawkes John Hawkes, $40.00, ISBN 9780473375553 Two New Zealanders at either end of their…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Issue 120, John Hawkes, Max Harris, Summer 2017, Tom Brooking
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Exploring the biographers, Tom Brooking
Frank Worsley: Shackleton’s Fearless Captain John Thomson Craig Potton, $50.00 ISBN 9781927213124 Dumont d’Urville: Explorer and Polymath Edward Duyker Otago University Press, $70.00 ISBN 9781877578700 Here we have two very different approaches to writing about the history of European…
Tagged with: Autumn 2015, Craig Potton, Dumont d’Urville, Edward Duyker, Ernest Shackleton, Frank Worsley, Issue 109, John Thomson, Otago University Press, Tom Brooking
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Outstanding achievement or pitiful war? Janet Hunt
Making a New Land: Environmental Histories of New Zealand Eric Pawson and Tom Brooking (eds) Otago University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781877578526 Making a New Land: Environmental Histories of New Zealand is a revised, expanded and renamed edition of Environmental Histories…
Tagged with: Eric Pawson, Issue 108, Janet Hunt, Otago University Press, Summer 2014, Tom Brooking
Posted in History, Natural History, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Natural History, Review, Sociology
Larger than life, Simon Upton
Richard Seddon: King of God’s Own – The Life and Times of New Zealand’s Longest-serving Prime Minister Tom Brooking Penguin, $65.00 ISBN 9780143569671 I grew up in a very complacent country which didn’t really take its history seriously. New Zealand…
Tagged with: Issue 108, Penguin, Simon Upton, Summer 2014, Tom Brooking
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Scots collective and singular, Kirstine Moffat
Unpacking the Kists: The Scots in New Zealand Brad Patterson, Tom Brooking and Jim McAloon Otago University Press, $70.00, ISBN 9780773541900 I have always enjoyed the inventiveness of collective nouns, favourites being an exaltation of larks and a worship of…
Tagged with: Brad Patterson, Issue 106, Jim McAloon, Kirstine Moffat, Otago University Press, Tom Brooking, Winter 2014
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Minding the gap, Tom Brooking
People, People, People: A Brief History of New Zealand Stevan Eldred-Grigg David Bateman, $24.95, ISBN 9781869538132 In 1980 Stevan Eldred-Grigg wrote a provocative study of the great estate owners of the South Island which proved beyond any semblance of doubt…
Tagged with: Autumn 2012, David Bateman, Issue 97, Stevan Eldred-Grigg, Tom Brooking
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Forgotten people, Tom Brooking
In/visible Sight: The Mixed-Descent Families of Southern New Zealand Angela Wanhalla Bridget Williams Books, $39.99, ISBN 9781877242434 Golden Prospects: Chinese on the West Coast of New Zealand Julia Bradshaw West Coast Historical and Mechanical Institute $54.95, ISBN 9780473155469 Doing Well…
Innocence, disruption, death, Tom Brooking
Aphrodite’s Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti Anne Salmond Viking, $65.00, ISBN 9780670073962 The publication of a new book by Anne Salmond is always an occasion worth celebrating and savouring. Aphrodite’s Island, about the European discovery of, and encounter with,…
Tagged with: Anne Salmond, Issue 88, Summer 2009, Tom Brooking, Viking
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Rough justice, Tom Brooking
The Newest Country in the World: A History of New Zealand in the Decade of the Treaty Paul Moon Penguin Books, $39.95, ISBN 978014300670 Paul Moon is one of the most prolific historians currently holding an academic position (Moon is…
Tagged with: Issue 82, Paul Moon, Penguin Books, Tom Brooking, Winter 2008
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
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