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Gamelans and paldongs, Sue Court
World Music is Where We Found it: Essays by and for Allan Thomas Wendy Pond and Paul Wolffram (eds) Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864736949 World Music is Where We Found it is not a collection of essays in…
Tagged with: Allan Thomas, Issue 99, Paul Wolffram, Spring 2012, Sue Court, Victoria University Press, Wendy Pond
Posted in Essays, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Martial arts, Wendy Pond
The Musket Wars: A History of Inter-Iwi Conflict 1806-45 R D Crosby Reed Books, $65, ISBN 0 7900 0677 4 This is a narrative of long campaigns covering immense distances in rugged country, of brutal and ruthless raids, of enslavement…
Tagged with: Issue 42, R D Crosby, Reed Books, Wendy Pond
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, War
The land as a traceable commodity, Wendy Pond
National Overview: Waitangi Tribunal Rangahaua Whanui Series Alan Ward GP Publications, $154.65 (3 volumes), ISBN 1 86956 209 7 In 1993 I attended the first Pacific island peoples’ science conference in Suva. At that time there were still western scientists…
Tagged with: Alan Ward, GP Publications, Issue 31, Spring 1997, Wendy Pond
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Queen Victoria, dancing monarch, Wendy Pond
A New Most Excellent Dancing Master. The Journal of Joseph Lowe’s visits to Balmoral and Windsor (1852-1860) to teach dance to the family of Queen Victoria Allan Thomas (ed), Pendragon Press, $54.95 It is Boxing Day 1855. Queen Victoria is…
Tagged with: Allan Thomas, Autumn 1993, Issue 8, Jennifer Shennan, Pendragon Press, Wendy Pond
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review