bridget williams books - 2011/2012 catalogue

catalogue2011/12

Bridget Williams Books is an independent publisher

focusing on New Zealand history, M-aori experience, contemporary

issues, and women’s studies. The present company is a

culmination of three decades of publishing by Bridget Williams.

In a distinguished list of titles, this publishing has contributed

to critical scholarship in New Zealand, and deepened our

understanding of what it is to inhabit these islands.

The BWB Publishing Trust supports the work of Bridget

Williams Books. Trustees: Charlotte Macdonald (chair), Margaret

Calder, Graeme Kennedy. Settlor: Hugh Rennie.

Supporting BWB books: We warmly acknowledge the

contribution made to BWB’s publishing by: the Alexander Turnbull

Library Endowment Trust, Creative New Zealand/Te Waka Toi, the

Deane Endowment Trust, the G & N Trust, the Deaf Development

Fund, the M-aori Purposes Fund Board, the New Zealand Law

Foundation, the Stout Trust, Te R-unanga o Ng-ai Tahu, and some

generous anonymous donors. Deaf Aotearoa has also provided

valuable assistance.

People at BWB and on the books: Alison Carew, John

Huria, Tui MacDonald, Angela Radford, Philip Rainer, Sarah

Rennie, Tom Rennie, John Schiff, Jo Scully, Megan Simpson,

Ginny Sullivan, Leanne Tamaki, Geoff Walker, Jude Watson,

Bridget Williams, Melissa Williams

Book design: Afineline, Neil Pardington at Base Two, Tina

Delceg, Mission Hall Creative

Catalogue: Printed by Printlink, designed by Mission Hall

Creative

All information on new titles is provisional. Numbers of pages and illustrations are given approximately. All prices listed are the recommended retail prices only, include GST, and are subject to change without notice.

For information on the illustrations, see page 23.

Allan Davidson

Atholl Anderson

Aroha Harris

Nicola Wheen

Charlotte Macdonald

Cybèle Locke

Vincent O’Sullivan

Janine Hayward

Judith Binney

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Strong, Beautiful and ModernNational Fitness in Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand, 1935–1960

Charlotte Macdonald

RRP $49.99

ISBN 9781927131404

Publication: November 2011

256 pages

240 x 170 mm

30 b/w illustrations

History

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, a wave of state-sponsored ‘national fitness’ programmes swept Britain and its former colonies. Following revelations of the Nazi enthusiasm for government-backed sports and the organisation of mass leisure, the programmes quickly foundered. They probably laid, however, the foundations for the twentieth century’s obsession with fitness – a key facet of modern life.

In this highly original account, Charlotte Macdonald shows how governments became convinced that they must encourage citizens to be healthier and more active, and how these efforts reinforced the cultural ties of the Empire. Alongside these state-sponsored efforts was a growing emphasis from business, the medical establishment and popular culture on the importance of having a better body.

Strong, Beautiful and Modern explains the origins of the modern preoccupation with ‘the body’. And, at a time when government concern over public health issues such as obesity is once again on the rise, it offers valuable lessons as to why the first national fitness drive was ultimately a failure.

Drawing on extensive research, and written in vivid, lively prose, Strong, Beautiful and Modern is an historical investigation into the way that people and their governments think about their health and well-being, and how those historical views have shaped our modern life.

Charlotte Macdonald is Professor of History at Victoria University of Wellington. She has strong interests in women’s history, both in New Zealand and the wider British Empire, and in the history of sport. Her previous books include My Hand Will Write What My Heart Dictates (1996), and she co-edited The Book of New Zealand Women (1991).

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MihaiaThe Prophet Rua Kenana and his Community at Maungapohatu

Judith Binney, Gillian Chaplin & Craig Wallace

RRP $49.99

ISBN 9781927131305

Publication: November 2011 (second edition). First published by OUP in 1979.

256 pages

265 x 195 mm

Approx 200 b/w illustrations

History/Maori

Rua Kenana was an extraordinary prophetic leader from the Urewera. Resisting threats to expel the Tühoe people from their ancestral lands, he established a remarkable community at Maungapohatu, identifying himself as the ‘Míhaia’ or ‘Messiah’ for Túhoe.

Judith Binney, Gillian Chaplin and Craig Wallace researched the history of the community in the 1970s, working first with a collection of photographs that they took to the Urewera. Sharing these photographs with descendants of Rua and his followers, they found that ‘strangers opened their hearts to us, and shared their stories’.

This biographical account focuses on a dramatic moment in Urewera history, one that incorporated a shocking episode in early twentieth-century New Zealand. The rich photographic record documents not only the police assault on the Maungapohatu community but also the lives of the people and Rua’s utopian vision. The prophet lived into the 1930s, a leader still working to support and sustain his followers.

Described on publication as ‘an unparalleled record of a community through time’, this remarkable history has been in demand since first publication by Oxford University Press in 1979.

Judith Binney, dnzm, frsnz, was the author of many award-winning histories, including Redemption Songs: A Life of Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki (1995) and Encircled Lands: Te Urewera 1820–1921 (2009). Her work will appear also in Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History (forthcoming, 2012). Photographer Gillian Chaplin is a director of the Melbourne-based Magian Design Studio, specialising in exhibition design around the world. After graduating from Auckland University in languages and anthropology, Craig Wallace has managed literacy and English language programmes in several countries.

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Long Journey to the BorderA Life of John Mulgan

Vincent O’Sullivan

RRP $49.99

ISBN 9781927131329

Publication: November 2011 (second edition). First published by Penguin in 2003.

300 pages

240 x 170 mm


Biography

Vincent O’Sullivan has written a book more powerful and more moving than anything in our biographical literature. Michael King, NZ Herald, 2003

John Mulgan was part of a gifted yet uneasy group of young New Zealanders who made their mark between the wars – men such as Ian Milner, James Bertram, Dan Davin and Geoffrey Cox. An Oxford graduate, he worked as a publisher at Oxford University Press before leaving for the front in World War Two.

Fascinated but sometimes troubled by his home country, Mulgan saw New Zealand as a place of challenge and austere demands, a land that produced men more practical than cultivated. In his famous novel Man Alone, he depicted it as a tough, often heartless country, characterised by the solitary figure who has come to symbolise the male New Zealand psyche. He wrote more warmly of the place and the people in his poignant memoir, Report on Experience, published after his death.

Mulgan was a glamorous figure: handsome, gifted and good at anything he attempted. His last years were spent fighting in the Allied cause in Egypt and Greece, where he distinguished himself. But there were darker threads, too, which culminated in his decision to take his own life in Cairo, just after the end of the war and aged only thirty-three.

In this penetrating biography, Vincent O’Sullivan draws on a large collection of personal papers, official records and contemporary memoirs to paint a vivid portrait of a man who came to represent so much about his country and his time.

Vincent O’Sullivan, dcnzm, is one of New Zealand’s leading writers, acclaimed for his poetry and short stories, along with the novels Let the River Stand and Believers to the Bright Coast. Honoured by many awards and distinctions, he is also highly regarded as a playwright and critic, and for his superb scholarship as co-editor of The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield. Until recently, Vincent O’Sullivan taught at Victoria University.

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A Controversial ChurchmanEssays on George Selwyn, Bishop of New Zealand and Lichfield, and Sarah Selwyn

Edited by Allan Davidson

RRP $49.99

ISBN 9781877242519


300 pages

240 x 170 mm


Biography/History

New Zealand’s first Anglican bishop, George Selwyn, was a towering figure in the young colony. Denounced as a ‘turbulent priest’ for speaking out against Crown practices that dispossessed Máori, he brought a vigorous approach to episcopal leadership. His wife Sarah Selwyn supported all her husband’s activities, in a life characterised as one of ‘hardship and anxiety’. She expressed independently her sense of outrage over the Waitara dispute.

Selwyn promoted participatory church government, founded the innovative Melanesian Mission, and developed a distinctive style of colonial church architecture. More contro-versially, he battled with the Church Missionary Society, and was caught up in the bitter maelstrom of settler and Máori politics. His personal links with colonial and ecclesiastical networks gave him access to the heart of empire.

These essays offer new insights into Selwyn’s role in developing pan-Anglicanism, strengthening links between the Church of England and the Episcopal and Anglican Churches in North America, and his time as Bishop of Lichfield (1868–78). His place in Treaty history, as a political commentator and a valuable source of historical information, is recognised.

George Selwyn left a large imprint on New Zealand church and society. This collection both honours and critiques a controversial bishop.

Allan Davidson taught church history for many years at St John’s College and the University of Auckland. He has published extensively on religious history in New Zealand and the South Pacific, and edited Living Legacy: A History of the Anglican Diocese of Auckland (2011). Contributors: Sir Paul Reeves, Warren Limbrick, Janet Crawford, John Stenhouse, Grant Phillipson, Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, Bruce Kaye, Rowan Strong, Terry Brown, Ken Booth, and Judith Bright.

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Nga MorehuThe Survivors

Judith Binney & Gillian Chaplin

RRP $49.99

ISBN 9781927131312

Publication: November 2011 (second edition). First published by OUP in 1986.

256 pages

265 x 195 mm


History/Maori

For much of women’s history, memory is the only way of discovering the past. Other sources simply do not exist. This is true for any history of Máori women in this century. All the women in this book have lived through times of acute social disturbance. Their voices must be heard.

Judith Binney, 1992

In eight remarkable oral histories, Ngá Mórehu brings alive the experience of Máori women from the mid-twentieth century. Heni Brown (above right), Reremoana Koopu, Maaka Jones, Hei Ariki Algie, Heni Sunderland (above left), Miria Rua, Putiputi Onekawa and Te Akakura Rua talked with Judith Binney and Gillian Chaplin, sharing stories and memories. These are the women whose ‘voices must be heard’.

The title, ‘the survivors’, reflects the women’s connection with the visionary leader Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki and his followers, who adopted the name ‘Ngá Mórehu’ during the wars of the 1860s. But these women are not only survivors: they are also the chosen ones, the leaders of their society. They speak here of richly diverse lives – of arranged marriages and whángai adoption traditions, of working in both Máori and Pákehá communities. They pay testimony to their strong sense of a shared identity created by religious and community teachings.

[T]o read the life histories of these women is a rare privilege. We are swept up into a world of pain, poverty and the sheer grind of daily life in rural villages. … Throughout all the narratives there is a strong sense of taha wairua – spiritual beliefs instilled by influential whanau elders. To read these stories is to become enveloped in a brilliantly patterned cloak where all the strong threads are bound together with warmth and aroha. Keri Kaa, NZ Listener, 30 May 1987

Judith Binney, dnzm, frsnz, was the author of many award-winning histories, including Redemption Songs: A Life of Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki (1995) and Encircled Lands: Te Urewera 1820–1921 (2009). Her work will appear also in Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History (forthcoming, 2012). Photographer Gillian Chaplin is a director of the Melbourne-based Magian Design Studio, specialising in exhibition design around the world.

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Tangata WhenuaAn Illustrated History

Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney & Aroha Harris

RRP $120.00 hardback

ISBN 9781927131411

Publication: April 2012

496 pages

290 x 245 mm

Approx 500 illustrations

Full colour throughout

History/Maori

A landmark publication, Tangata Whenua portrays the sweep of Máori history from Pacific origins to the twenty-first century. Through narrative and images, it offers a striking overview of the past, grounded in specific localities and histories.

Fifteen chapters bring together scholarship in history, archaeology, traditional narratives and oral history. Images from around the country (and from international museums) include taonga and artefacts, early European sketches and paintings along with contemporary artworks, and many photographs from collections and newspapers.

Placing Máori at the centre of the country’s story, Tangata Whenua begins in the Pacific and outlines early settlement in New Zealand. A second section covers the period of great change in the nineteenth century, examining how Máori communities were affected by the influx of new technology, religious ideas, trade and literacy. The history then extends forward through the twentieth century – with two world wars, the growth of an urban Máori culture, rising protest, and Treaty claims and settlements.

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Máori are drawing on both international connections and their ancestral place in Aotearoa. The ways in which growth and development are interwoven with tension and resistance will be evident in the future as they have been throughout the past.

Atholl Anderson (Ngái Tahu) is Professor Emeritus at the Australian National University. An experienced archaeologist, he has published on early New Zealand and Pacific history, and on Ngái Tahu history. Judith Binney was Professor Emeritus at the University of Auckland, and an award-winning author of many books on Máori history. Aroha Harris (Ngápuhi, Te Rarawa) is a member of the Waitangi Tribunal, who teaches history at the University of Auckland. Her publications include history, fiction and poetry.

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Treaty of Waitangi SettlementsEdited by Nicola Wheen & Janine Hayward

RRP $49.99

ISBN 9781927131381

Publication: February 2012

300 pages

240 x 170 mm


History/Maori/Treaty

The settlement of iwi claims under the Treaty of Waitangi has been a prominent feature of New Zealand's political and legal landscape over the last thirty years. It has drawn international attention, as other nations seek ways to build new relationships between indigenous peoples and the state.

Here leading scholars from the fields of law, history, Mäori studies and politics provide a comprehensive account of the settlement process. The contributors examine the history of Treaty claims and the impact of Treaty settlements. The major settlements are considered, and their impact on the management and ownership of key resources (such as lands, forests, fisheries). The economic and social consequences for Mäori are debated, along with the impact of the settlement process on the Crown's relationship with Mäori.

As the settlement of historical claims draws toward a close (forecast for 2014), this timely book considers the achievements and controversies of Treaty settlements over the years. How successful has the process been in redressing historic grievances? Are Treaty settlements truly ‘full and final’? Are major issues left unresolved? And how does New Zealand's attempt to build a new relationship between indigenous people and the state rate internationally?

Nicola Wheen is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Otago. Janine Hayward is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Otago. Both have published widely in the fields of law and politics, and together edited The Waitangi Tribunal: Te Roopu Whakamana i te Tiriti o Waitangi (2004). Contributors: Michael Belgrave, Paul James, Andrew Erueti, Maureen Hickey, Paerau Warbrick, Linda Te Aho, Margaret Mutu, Sacha MacMeeking, Damian Stone, Robert Joseph, Maria Bargh, and Mai Chen.

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Workers in the MarginsUnion Radicals in Post-War New Zealand

Cybèle Locke

RRP $49.99

ISBN 9781927131398

Publication: March 2012

300 pages

240 x 170 mm


History

‘Marginalised’ workers of the late twentieth century were those last hired in times of plenty and first fired in times of recession. Often women, Mäori, or people from the Pacific, they were frequently unemployed, and marginalised within the union movement as well as the labour force.

Workers in the Margins tells the story of these workers in the tumultuous years of post-war New Zealand. These were years characterised by massive changes in the workforce, as it expanded to accommodate a growing urban Mäori population and an increasing desire for women to enter paid work. The world of trade unions and employment conflicts, such as the 1951 waterfront lockout, was vigorous and challenging. As free market policies deregulated the labour market and splintered the union movement toward the end of the century, Te Roopu Rawakore o Aotearoa, the national unemployed and beneficiaries' movement, gave a new voice to ‘workers in the margins’.

The people of this history come to life through oral histories – from the poet (and boilermaker) Hone Tuwhare building a palisade at Orakei through to activists Sue Bradford and Jane Stevens working with the unemployed in the 1980s and ’90s. Their experiences speak to the lives of many workers of the early twenty-first century.

Cybèle Locke’s imaginative use of oral history has allowed her to bring to life some significant ‘grass roots’ figures and to recapture the mood and texture of a radical movement. … a substantial contribution to New Zealand scholarship that will be of great interest to all those concerned with social justice. Erik Olssen, Emeritus Professor, University of Otago

Cybèle Locke is a graduate of Otago and Auckland universities, who has published widely on labour history. Currently a full-time parent, she was a participant in the activist movements of the late twentieth century.

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Encircled LandsTe Urewera, 1820–1921Judith Binney

RRP $89.99 hardback

ISBN 9781877242441

Published: 2009

NZ Post Book of the Year (2010)

648 pages • 265 x 195 mm

200 full-colour illustrations


Te Urewera in the nineteenth century was a sheltering heartland for those who lived there; for visiting Europeans, it was a forbidding wilderness. As the century drew on, however, the lands occupied by Urewera hapü were dramatically reduced by confiscation and forced cession. Government troops brought armed struggle to the territory.

Under the agreed terms of peace in 1872, Te Urewera became an autonomous district, collectively governed by its own leaders – Te Whitu Tekau (The Seventy), men who stand tall in any history of Aotearoa New Zealand. In 1896, Te Rohe Pötae o Te Urewera was formally ratified as a separate tribal district, the only legally recognised tribal enclave in the country’s history. As Premier Richard Seddon acknowledged, earlier promises made to Tuhoe’s leaders had been fulfilled.

But in 1921–22 the ‘Urewera District Native Reserve’ was abolished in law. The gover-nance of Te Whitu Tekau was steadily undermined, and Urewera lands progressively alienated from their original owners by the Crown.

Encircled Lands recovers this history from a wealth of contemporary archived documents, many written by the Urewera leaders themselves, and over 150 early photographs, along with oral sources and original maps. It explains how the idea of internal self-government for Tühoe was born – and for a period partly realised.

This magisterial account provides the historical context of an idea that has come again to the negotiating table: Tühoe’s never-ending quest for a constitutional agreement that restores their authority in their lands.

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The New Zealand Pregnancy BookA Guide to Pregnancy, Birth and a Baby’s First Three Months

Sue Pullon & Cheryl Benn

RRP $54.99

ISBN 9781877242403

Published: 2008 (3rd edn)

432 pages

244 x 185 mm

Full colour throughout

Health/Reference/New Zealand

The New Zealand Pregnancy Book has been used by thousands of parents since it was first published in 1991. Its ongoing popularity reflects the demand for a comprehensive book written expressly for New Zealanders. This invaluable guide offers modern parents and their families a wonderful insight into pregnancy and childbirth today.

Each step of pregnancy, birth and the baby’s first months is set out with detailed information and clear diagrams. In contemporary personal stories and a remarkable set of full colour photographs, women and men who have recently become parents share some of life’s most intensely private and deeply-felt times – making this a very special book for New Zealand and New Zealanders.

Pregnancy, birth and early parenting are part of a continuous life process. This book not only describes the amazing physical and emotional changes that take place in a woman’s body during pregnancy and birth, but also has advice on pre-pregnancy health, common problems and potential difficulties, pregnancy care and birth choices, and caring for a new baby. There are practical sections on everything from exercise and nutrition to baby equipment and nappy-changing, for pregnant women and their support people.

The authors, GP Sue Pullon and midwife Cheryl Benn, draw on many years’ professional and academic experience in general practice and midwifery respectively. They have worked closely with a wider group of experts, along with the publishing and design team, to create an accessible, practical and reliable guide for today’s new parents.

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Geoff Bertram and Simon Terry

The Carbon ChallengeNew Zealand’s Emissions Trading Scheme

A plain language guide to New Zealand’s controversial emissions trading scheme. The authors discuss the range of options available for reducing carbon emissions, and argue for a fairer distribution of responsibility.

‘Essential reading for all New Zealanders – and especially our children, who will suffer the consequences of continued inaction.’ Professor Peter Barrett, Victoria University

RRP $39.99

ISBN 9781877242465

Published: 2010

224 pages • 240 x 170 mm

Series 21

Contemporary Issues/Environment

Edited by Joanna ManningForeword by David Skegg

The Cartwright PapersEssays on the Cervical Cancer Inquiry 1987–88

The Cartwright Report of 1988 was a watershed in New Zealand medical history. Cogent arguments are presented here in support of Judge Silvia Cartwright’s findings, and against the revisionist case made by Linda Bryder. The harmful outcomes of the ‘unfortunate experiment’ at National Women’s Hospital were also confirmed by research from Otago University in June 2010.

RRP $39.99

ISBN 9781877242458

Published: 2009

224 pages • 240 x 170 mm

Series 21

Contemporary Issues/Health

General Editor Graeme Kennedy

A Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Sign Language

This essential guide to the language for the Deaf contains over 2,500 commonly used signs with a helpful introduction. Based on the comprehensive Dictionary of New Zealand Sign Language, the Concise Dictionary is now the only dictionary of New Zealand Sign Language in print.

RRP $59.99

ISBN 187724211X

Published: 2002

560 pages • 240 x 170 mm

See also: People of the Eye

Deaf Studies/Reference

BWB in Printincluding new booksAll editions paperback unless otherwise specified.

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Edited by Allan Davidson

A Controversial ChurchmanEssays on George Selwyn, Bishop of New Zealand and Lichfield, and Sarah Selwyn

New Zealand’s first Anglican bishop was a towering figure in the New Zealand colonial landscape. Speaking out against Crown practices that dispossessed Mäori won him few friends. Yet with his wife he was one of the most influential voices in the early years of European settlement.

RRP $49.99

ISBN 9781877242519


300 pages • 240 x 170 mm

50 black and white illustrations

Biography/History

Judith Binney Encircled LandsTe Urewera, 1820–1921

Te Urewera was a sheltering heartland for those who lived there; for nineteenth-century Europeans it was a forbidding wilderness. This richly illustrated history of Te Rohe Pötae o Te Urewera over a hundred years contextualises Tühoe’s never-ending quest for authority in their lands. NZ Post Book of the Year (2010).

RRP $89.99 hardback


ISBN 9781877242441

Published: 2009

648 pages • 265 x 195 mm

See also: Te Kerikeri 1770–1850; The Legacy of Guilt; Stories without End


Margaret Tennant The Fabric of WelfareVoluntary Organisations, Government and Welfare in New Zealand, 1840–2005

This engaging history looks at the overarching structures and the ordinary workings of welfare. Stories abound, as Margaret Tennant writes about voluntary organisations and their interwoven connections with government.

RRP $49.99

ISBN 9781877242373

Published: 2007

296 pages • 240 x 170 mm

History

Paul Monin Hauraki Contested 1769–1875

The Hauraki Gulf was a hotly contested region during the first hundred years of European settlement. This account of a region in transformation is pertinent today, as Treaty settlements are negotiated. J. M. Sherrard Award (2004).

RRP $39.99

ISBN 1877242357

Published: 2001

272 pages • 240 x 170 mm

50 b/w photographs and paintings


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James Belich I Shall Not DieTitokowaru’s War,1868–18692nd edition with new introduction

Titokowaru was one of New Zealand’s greatest leaders, who worked in both peace and war to save the Taranaki people from European invasion in the nineteenth century. This is history at its most compelling. Adam Award (1990).

RRP $39.99

ISBN 9781877242496

Published: 2010

320 pages • 240 x 170 mm


History/Maori

Claudia Orange An Illustrated History of the Treaty of Waitangi

The history of the Treaty comes to life with a wonderful range of photographs, maps and paintings. A companion volume to The Treaty of Waitangi, the up-to-date text is written for the general reader.

RRP $39.99

ISBN 1877242160

Published: 2004

200 pages • 265 x 215 mm

Over 200 b/w illustrations

Also by Claudia Orange: The Treaty of Waitangi; The Story of a Treaty


Angela Wanhalla In/visible SightThe Mixed-Descent Families of Southern New Zealand

Centering her story on the Otago community at Maitapapa, where her great-grandparents were born, Angela Wanhalla (Ngäi Tahu) explores the less visible side of colonialism – the world of kinship networks, families and communities. Co-published with Athabasca University Press (Canada).

RRP $39.99

ISBN 9781877242434

Published: 2009

200 pages • 240 x 170 mm


See also: Ngai Tahu: A Migration History

History/Maori

Edited by Margot Schwass

Last WordsApproaches to Death in New Zealand’s Cultures and Faiths

Last Words looks at ways of acknowledging death in different cultures and religions. It includes sections on: cultures and faiths; Mäori perspectives; facing death; and grief. Particularly valuable for students and professionals (nurses, chaplains, funeral directors).

RRP $34.99

ISBN 1877242349

Published: 2005

200 pages • 210 x 150 mm

Reprinted 2011

Health/Reference

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Judith Binney The Legacy of Guilt A Life of Thomas Kendall

Kendall was one of the first missionaries to learn te reo Mäori and make his way, problematically, in the Mäori world. This remarkable study of cross-cultural experience won the F. P. Wilson Award for Judith Binney as a young historian.

RRP $49.99

ISBN 1877242330

Published: (1968), 2005

2nd edn, new introduction

252 pages • 240 x 170 mm

30 b/w paintings and photographs

See also: Encircled Lands; Stories Without End; Te Kerikeri

Biography/History/Maori

Edited by Jessie Munro

Letters on the GoThe Correspondence of Suzanne Aubert

Suzanne Aubert wrote copious letters throughout her long life. Her Letters reflect her rich friendships, her challenges to the church hierarchy, her engagement with politicians, her relationships with the Sisters of Compassion.

RRP $69.99

ISBN 9781877242410

Published: 2009

636 pages • 240 x 195 mm

50 b/w photographs

See also: The Story of Suzanne Aubert

Biography/History/Religion

Vincent O'Sullivan Long Journey to the BorderA Life of John Mulgan

John Mulgan, the author of the classic novel Man Alone, was part of a gifted yet uneasy group of young New Zealanders who made their mark between the wars. One of New Zealand’s leading writers, Vincent O’Sullivan draws a vivid portrait of an heroic yet enigmatic figure, a man who came to represent so much about his country and his time. First published by Penguin (2003).

RRP $49.99

ISBN 9781927131329

Published: November 2011 (reissue)

256 pages • 240 x 170 mm

20 b/w photographs

Biography

W. H. Oliver Looking for the PhoenixA Memoir

W. H. Oliver, a central figure in New Zealand’s intellectual landscape, reflects here on the decades of his own life, and the history that has shaped him. In 2008, W. H. Oliver was honoured with the Prime Minister’s Award for Non-fiction, for his contribution to New Zealand history.

RRP $39.99

ISBN 1877242985

Published: 2002

200 pages • 216 x 162 mm

Biography /History

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Judith Binney, Gillian Chaplin and Craig Wallace

MihaiaThe Prophet Rua Kenana and his Community at Maungapohatu

Rua Kenana’s community in Te Urewera was established as Túhoe leaders sought to retain control of their ancestral lands. This photographic history traces the life of the community through to the police assault of 1916, then follows Rua and his people into the 1930s. An exceptional record of a crucial episode in New Zealand history.

RRP $49.99

ISBN 9781927131305

Publication: November 2011 (2nd edn)

265 x 195 mm

256 pages


History/Maori

Sue Pullon and Cheryl Benn

The New Zealand Pregnancy BookA Guide to Pregnancy, Birth and a Baby's First Three Months

Used by thousands since it was first published in 1991, this invaluable guide offers a wonderful insight into what pregnancy and childbirth looks like today. For pregnant women, their families and health professionals.

RRP $54.99 flexibind

ISBN 9781877242403

Published: 2008 (3rd edn)

432 pages • 250 x 190 mm

300 full-colour photographs and illustrations

Health/Reference/New Zealand

Judith Binney, Gillian Chaplin

Ng-a M-orehuThe Survivors

Ngä Mórehu brings alive the experience of eight Mäori women brought up in small North Island rural communities associated with the Ringatú faith. These women are not only ‘survivors’ of years of change and turbulence in the Mäori world, but also leaders in society.

RRP $49.99

ISBN 9781927131305

Publication: November 2011 (2nd edn)

265 x 195 mm

256 pages


History/Maori

Edited by Te Maire Tau and Atholl Anderson

Ng-ai Tahu: A Migration HistoryThe Carrington Text

This magnificent narrative tells of Ngäi Tahu’s migration from the Wellington area into the South Island. The history draws on early accounts by Ngäi Tahu elders.

RRP $69.99

ISBN 9781877242397

Published: 2008

280 pages • 270 x 216 mm


History/Maori

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Edited by Jane Kelsey

No Ordinary DealUnmasking Free Trade and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

At a time when the global financial crisis has exposed deep flaws in the global free market, New Zealand is negotiating a free-trade agreement to surpass all others. Jane Kelsey heads up a team of expert commentators, with an analysis that exposes the myths of yet another neo-liberal adventure.

RRP $39.99

ISBN 9781877242502

Published: 2010

224 pages • 240 x 170 mm

Series 21

Contemporary Issues/Economics

Rachel McKee People of the EyeStories from the Deaf World

In a language rarely translated to print, the ‘people of the eye’ tell their stories, bringing to life a world little known outside Deaf culture. The storytellers are old and young, and their lives reflect the diversity and commonality of Deaf experience. Photographs by Bruce Connew.

RRP $39.99

ISBN 187724208X

Published: 2001

264 pages • 240 x 170 mm

Reprinted 2011

Deaf Studies

Judith Binney Stories Without EndEssays 1975–2010

These ‘stories without end’ stand alongside Judith Binney’s remarkable publications of forty years. They form narratives that flow one into another – essays from a writer who was also one of New Zealand’s greatest scholars.

RRP $49.99

ISBN 9781877242472

Published: 2010

400 pages • 240 x 170 mm


See also: Encircled Lands; Te Kerikeri; The Legacy of Guilt

History/Maori

Claudia Orange The Story of a Treaty

Telling the story of the Treaty over nearly two centuries, this lively short history is written for both students and general readers. Another reliable text from award-winning author, Claudia Orange.

RRP $19.99

ISBN 0046410538

Published: 1989


80 pages • 240 x 175 mm

See also: An Illustrated History of the Treaty of Waitangi; The Treaty of Waitangi


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Jessie Munro The Story of Suzanne Aubert

This beautifully written story of a radical nun who founded a religious congregation sold thousands of copies when it won the Book of the Year Award in the Montana Book Awards in 1997. [A]n outstanding work of historical biography … [that] deserves every accolade it is receiving and is worthy of its distinguished placement. Rt Hon. David Lange

RRP $49.99

ISBN 9781877242427

Published: 2009

496 pages • 240 x 195 mm

50 b/w photographs

See also: Letters on the Go

Biography/History/Religion

Charlotte Macdonald

Strong, Beautiful and ModernNational Fitness in Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand, 1935–1960

From the late 1930s, a wave of state-sponsored ‘national’ fitness programmes swept Britain and its former colonies. Now largely forgotten, they probably laid the foundation for the twentieth century’s obsession with fitness – and the pursuit of ‘the better body’.

RRP $49.99

ISBN 9781927131404


256 pages • 240 x 170 mm

30 b/w photographs and posters

History

Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney and Aroha Harris

Tangata WhenuaAn Illustrated History

A landmark publication, Tangata Whenua portrays the sweep of Máori history in New Zealand from Pacific origins to the twenty-first century. Richly illustrated, this outstanding work of scholarship presents a striking narrative of the country’s Máori past.

RRP $120.00 hardback

ISBN 9781927131411

Publication: April 2012

496 pages • 290 x 245 mm

Approx 500 paintings, drawings, maps, photographs, full colour throughout

History/Maori

Edited by Judith Binney

Te Kerikeri 1770–1850The Meeting Pool

Acting as a ‘meeting pool’ for Mäori and European in the early nineteenth century, the Kerikeri Basin is today one of the country’s major heritage sites. This richly illustrated collection tells a vivid story about a significant place.

RRP $34.99

ISBN 9781877242380

Published: 2007

134 pages • 240 x 195 mm


History/Maori

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Claudia Orange The Treaty of Waitangi2nd edition, with new introduction

Claudia Orange’s comprehensive study remains the standard work on the Treaty. Winner of the Goodman Fielder Wattie Award in 1988, the book looks at the place of the Treaty in New Zealand history from its making in the early nineteenth century through to the renewed engagement of the late twentieth century.

RRP $49.99

ISBN 9781877242489

Published: 1987, 2010

300 pages • 240 x 170 mm

See also: An Illustrated History of the Treaty of Waitangi; The Story of a Treaty


Edited by Nicola Wheen and Janine Hayward

Treaty of Waitangi Settlements

The settlement of iwi claims under the Treaty of Waitangi has been a prominent feature of New Zealand’s political landscape over the last thirty years. In this timely book, leading scholars offer the first analysis of the economic and social impact of the settlement process.

RRP $49.99

ISBN 9781927131381

Publication: February 2012

300 pages • 240 x 170 mm


Anne Smith Understanding Children’s Development

This New Zealand text on child development is used by early childhood educators, students, and parents. Connecting current theory with the local context, it provides valuable information for understanding children today.

RRP $39.99

ISBN 090891296X

Published: 1998

358 pages • 230 x 150 mm

4th edn

Education/Reference

Alan Ward An Unsettled HistoryTreaty Claims in New Zealand Today

Alan Ward writes lucidly about the history behind the claims arising from the Treaty of Waitangi. His account reveals a treaty made and then repeatedly breached. The impact of the past upon the present has rarely been analysed to such immediate purpose.

RRP $34.99

ISBN 0908912978

Published: 1999

212 pages • 230 x 150 mm

50 b/w photographs


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Edited by Janine Hayward and Nicola Wheen

The Waitangi Tribunal

The Waitangi Tribunal was established in 1975 to hear claims by Mäori against the Crown arising under the Treaty. This book brings together the work of leading historians, lawyers, and analysts to offer a detailed review of the Tribunal’s place in contemporary New Zealand.

RRP $49.99

ISBN 1877242322

Published: 2004

272 pages • 240 x 170 mm

Treaty/Contemporary Issues

Cybèle Locke Workers in the MarginsUnion Radicals in Post-War New Zealand

Last hired in times of plenty and first fired in times of recession, marginalised workers were frequently in and out of employment, and usually peripheral in the union movement of the late twentieth century. Workers in the Margins tells the story of these workers in post-war New Zealand.

RRP $49.99

ISBN 9781927131398

Publication: March 2012

300 pages • 240 x 170 mm

30 black and white photographs

History

Lloyd Geering Wrestling With GodThe Story of my Life

‘I am my life story, as yet still open-ended and unfinished ... thus to find out who I am, I must recall the story of my life as clearly and honestly as I can.’ Theologian Lloyd Geering writes autobiography with his usual sharp analysis – and he has a fascinating story to tell.

RRP $39.99

ISBN 1877424365

Published: 2006

230 pages • 230 x 152 mm

Biography/Religion

IllustrationsCover (left to right): The head of a chief of New Zealand…, Sydney Parkinson, Alexander Turnbull Library, PUBL-0037-16. Heni Sunderland, photograph by Gillian Chaplin. A new dawn? Stanley Davis, The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 7 (November 1, 1928). Sarah Harriet Selwyn, G. Richmond, 1841, John Kinder Theological Library. Boy movie poster, Taika Waititi and the New Zealand Film Commission. Detail from John Mulgan and other World War II soldiers from New Zealand, Greece, Alexander Turnbull Library, DA-12924.

Internal: Page 3, photographs by Reg Graham, Neil Pardington and others. Page 4, A new dawn? Stanley Davis, The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 7 (November 1, 1928). Page 6, John Mulgan and other World War II soldiers from New Zealand, Greece. Alexander Turnbull Library, DA-12924. Page 7, George Selwyn (left), Sarah Selwyn (right), G. Richmond, 1841. John Kinder Theological Library. Page 8, (left) Heni Sunderland, photograph by Gillian Chaplin, 1984; (right) Heni Brown, photograph by Gillian Chaplin, 1982. Page 9, (left) The head of a chief of New Zealand…, Sydney Parkinson. Alexander Turnbull Library, PUBL-0037-16; (right) Boy movie poster, Taika Waititi and the New Zealand Film Commission. Page 10, Minister in Charge of Treaty Negotiations, Margaret Wilson, and Ngati Ruanui negotiator Steve Heremaia, with Mate Carr (far right) and staff from the Office of Treaty Settlements at the signing of the Ngati Ruanui Deed of Settlement with the Crown in May 2000. Photograph by the Daily News. Page 11, Westfield strikers marching with the March Against Unemployment, 1988, John Leckie.

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