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Not just a matter of mutton, Vincent O’Malley

New Zealand’s London: A Colony and its Metropolis Felicity Barnes Auckland University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9781869405854 Far From “Home”: The English in New Zealand  Lyndon Fraser and Angela McCarthy (eds) Otago University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781877578328 On the day that

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Contextualising the Treaty, Bernard Cadogan

The Treaty of Waitangi Companion: Maori and Pakeha from Tasman to Today Vincent O’Malley, Bruce Stirling and Wally Penetito (eds) Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869404673   The German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) rehabilitated the term “prejudice” to mean our

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Refusing to come quietly, Nepia Mahuika

Ngai Tahu: A Migration History –  The Carrington Text  Rawiri Te Maire Tau and Atholl Anderson (eds)  Bridget Williams Books with Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu, $69.99, ISBN 9781877242397 The Beating Heart: A Political and Socio-economic History of Te Arawa 

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Playing colonists at their own game, Angela Ballard

Agents of Autonomy: Maori Committees in the 19th Century Vincent O’Malley Crown Forest Rental Trust ISBN 0 9583708 0 X Hikurangi to Homburg Helen M Hogan Clerestory Press, $39.95 ISBN 0 9583706 0 5 To review these two books together

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