The thrilling story of the young Australian Army engineers of 3 Field Troop who were the first allied soldiers to risk their lives in the darkness of the Vietcong tunnels of South Vietnam.
'All I co……続きを見る
An Accidental Utopia? investigates a more egalitarian past at a time when New Zealand ranks fourth in the developed world for social inequality. It is our first systematic analysis of urban social s……続きを見る
著者:Ann Beaglehole
出版社: Bridget Williams Books
発売日: 2015年12月21日
For European refugees arriving in the 1930s, New Zealand was in many ways a haven. It wasn't all easy: they came from a continent rich in culture and history to a small isolated country with little ……続きを見る
著者:Giselle Byrnes
出版社: Bridget Williams Books
発売日: 2015年12月21日
In a country where land disputes were the chief cause of conflict between the coloniser and the colonised, surveying could never be a neutral, depoliticised pastime.In a groundbreaking piece of scho……続きを見る
The settlement of iwi claims under the Treaty of Waitangi has drawn international attention, as other nations seek ways to build new relationships between indigenous peoples and the state.Here leadi……続きを見る
著者:Claudia Orange
出版社: Bridget Williams Books
発売日: 2015年12月21日
The Treaty of Waitangi is a central document in New Zealand history. This lively account tells the story of the Treaty from its signing in 1840 through the debates and struggles of the nineteenth ce……続きを見る
著者:Colin James
出版社: Bridget Williams Books
発売日: 2015年12月21日
New Territory is an analysis of the turbulent years of the late 1980s and early 1990s by one of New Zealand's leading political commentators. Colin James looks at the way Labour’s structural reforms……続きを見る
Between the 1840s and 1880s, thousands of young single women came to New Zealand as assisted migrants from Britain and Ireland. In this detailed study of forgotten lives, Charlotte Macdonald highlig……続きを見る
著者:Alan Ward
出版社: Bridget Williams Books
発売日: 2015年12月21日
An Unsettled History squarely confronts the issues arising from the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand today. Alan Ward writes lucidly about the Treaty claims process, about settlements made, and tho……続きを見る
著者:Colin James
出版社: Bridget Williams Books
発売日: 2015年12月21日
In The Quiet Revolution, leading political commentator Colin James analyses New Zealand's market-based reforms of the 1980s as they are happening. Writing a first draft of history, he examines how t……続きを見る
著者:Christine Dann
出版社: Bridget Williams Books
発売日: 2015年12月21日
Christine Dann was an early participant in the women’s movement that swept through New Zealand in the 1970s and 80s. Up from Under is a detailed and fascinating study of the achievements and aspirat……続きを見る
著者:James Belich
出版社: Bridget Williams Books
発売日: 2015年12月21日
Leading historian James Belich presents Titokowaru, a Taranaki chief in the 1860s, as one of the great figures of New Zealand history. A leader in peace and war, he ran a stunning military campaign ……続きを見る
著者:John E. Martin
出版社: Bridget Williams Books
発売日: 2015年12月21日
As New Zealand's agricultural industry developed in the twentieth century, the rural worker shearer, labourer, musterer began to disappear from public view. In this fascinating study, John Martin un……続きを見る
著者:Claudia Orange
出版社: Bridget Williams Books
発売日: 2015年12月29日
This book builds on Claudia Orange’s award-winning Treaty of Waitangi, using a wonderful range of photographs, maps and paintings to bring the Treaty’s history to life.Depictions of key players and ……続きを見る
著者:Ann Beaglehole
出版社: Bridget Williams Books
発売日: 2015年12月21日
In her first book, A Small Price to Pay, Ann Beaglehole traced the experiences of European refugees to New Zealand in the 1930s. In Facing the Past she focuses on the lives of a younger generation t……続きを見る
Travelling from Hokianga to Auckland in the middle decades of the twentieth century, the people of Panguru established themselves in the workplaces, suburbs, churches and schools of the city. Meliss……続きを見る
著者:Angela Wanhalla
出版社: Bridget Williams Books
発売日: 2015年12月29日
In/visible Sight is a fascinating exploration of a little-known part of our history: the lives of part-Māori, part-Pākehā New Zealanders in the nineteenth century.Focussing on interracial intimacy b……続きを見る
From beyond the black stump to the Australian Alps; in schools on stations, missions, mines and over the air, it takes a special kind of person to be an outback teacher.
Back then, not only did we h……続きを見る
著者:Pauline O'Regan
出版社: Bridget Williams Books
発売日: 2016年01月08日
In this charming book, Pauline O’Regan, the author of A Changing Order, turns her characteristic warmth and wit onto the world of her childhood.Accounts of climbing windmills and other adventures gr……続きを見る
This book contains 13 story of retired police men and women.
Pioneer Policing
Robin Alexander (Bob) Smith
William (Bill) Larkman
George Laidlaw Rickertt
Neil Douglas Raward
Kevin Claude Kruger
Georg……続きを見る
A brutal murder of a child in the English village of Road in 1860 which remained an unsolved crime until the sensational confession of Constance Emilie Kent in 1865. If you are a true crime enthusia……続きを見る
Cape York Peninsula is arguably the most exotic wilderness region in Australia. Its history is as colourful as its geography and as steamy as its climate. The era covered is 1845-2003, but historian……続きを見る
On 1 November 1944 a total of 733 Polish children and their 105 guardians landed in Wellington Harbour in New Zealand. Together they had shared the fate of 1.7 million Poles who had been ethnically ……続きを見る
First published eight years ago to enthusiastic reviews and critical acclaim, this classic celebrated readable scholarship is now available in ebook. Telling the story of the mounted riflemen in Sin……続きを見る
The South African and Vietnam Wars provoked dramatically different reactions in Australians, from pro-British jingoism on the eve of Federation, to the anti-war protest movements of the 1960s. In co……続きを見る
Anzac Battlefield: A Gallipoli Landscape of War and Memory explores the transformation of Gallipoli's landscape in antiquity, during the famed battles of the First World War and in the present day. ……続きを見る
The ‘black 1880s’ were a hard time for many in New Zealand, and this was felt across society ー for young men struggling to establish themselves and ‘patriarchs’ alike.
Such a patriarch was George S……続きを見る
The incredible true story of William "Bully' Hayes, the so-called "Pirate of the Pacific" in the 19th century; the myth and the man.
The story of Bully Hayes - so-called "Pirate of the Pacific" - is……続きを見る
Profiles in courage - the definitive history of the Victoria Cross and New Zealand, fully updated in this new edition.
For 150 years the highest Commonwealth military decoration for gallantry has be……続きを見る
A highly entertaining, scurrilous and fascinating book on Australian con men (and women) and all their dirty, devious tricks.
There are con men you fear and con men you hate, and con men with amazin……続きを見る