New Zealand Celebrates 100 Years of History
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Publisher :
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 21,20 MB
Release : 1939*
Category : Wellington (N.Z.)
ISBN :
A History of New Zealand in 100 Objects
Author : Jock Phillips
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 43,2 MB
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1761047221
Book Description
Authored by award-winning historian Jock Phillips, The History of New Zealand in 100 Objects is gripping, inclusive, often revelatory and deeply human. A colourful and characterful retelling of our shared past, relevant to today, particular to all of us. The sewing kete of an unknown 18th-century Maori woman; the Endeavour cannons that fired on waka in 1769; the bagpipes of an Irish publican Paddy Galvin; the school uniform of Harold Pond, a Napier Tech pupil in the Hawke’s Bay quake; the Biko shields that tried to protect protestors during the Springbok tour in 1981; Winston Reynolds’ remarkable home-made Hokitika television set, the oldest working TV in the country; the soccer ball that was a tribute to Tariq Omar, a victim of the Christchurch Mosque shootings, and so many more – these are items of quiet significance and great personal meaning, taonga carrying stories that together represent a dramatic, full-of-life history for everyday New Zealanders.
Creating a National Spirit
Author : William Leslie Renwick
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,68 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780864734754
Book Description
By exploring New Zealand's centennial celebration in 1940, this volume paints a vivid picture of New Zealanders and how they perceived themselves and their relationships to the world at that time. Detailing the Centennial Exhibition, Wellington trade fair, and various other public commemorations, special publications of dictionaries and pictorial surveys, and cultural and art exhibits, this text fully examines how the country and citizens commemorated their history and recognized new opportunities in the changing world landscape.
Conflict & Connection
Author : Martin Sutherland
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 20,29 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0473192179
Book Description
A groundbreaking study of unity and conflict in Baptist life in New Zealand.
A (nearly) Complete History of the Moose in New Zealand
Author : Ken G. Tustin
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,79 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Moose
ISBN : 9781877256981
Book Description
Moose are still out there. Originally released into Fiordland in 1910, Moose were thought to have become extinct several times. Ken Tustin has been fascinated with the "Fiordland Moose" since first hearing about them while working as a biologist for Forest Research NZFS, over forty years ago.Ken has now recorded 70 sightings of Moose where previously only about a dozen were thought to have occurred. In the entire 100 years since their introduction only three bulls and two females were thought to have been shot, Ken has now recorded 30. Illustrated with many historic and unique photographs the book traces the fascinating storyof Moose in New Zealand from introduction to the present day, celebrating 100 years of Moose in New Zealand.
The Poppy Lady
Author : Heather Johnson
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 14,88 MB
Release : 2023-01-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1399073753
Book Description
Madame Anna Guérin is the fascinating personality behind the title ‘The Poppy Lady’. Her idea of the ‘Inter-Allied Poppy Day’ gave work to women and children in the devastated areas of France, in addition to offering support for First World War veterans. Born in 1878, she was an early feminist, becoming financially independent. During the First World War, and the immediate years after the Armistice, many people knew of Madame Guérin’s reputation as a selfless fundraiser for French and American charities. Her speeches inspired many people to make generous donations. Having had her name lost in the mists of time, this is the first biography of Madame E. Guérin. The book follows her extraordinary story as ‘The Poppy Lady’, a woman born before her time, but confined to anonymity for too long.
History, heritage, and colonialism
Author : Kynan Gentry
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 25,91 MB
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1784991937
Book Description
History, heritage, and colonialism explores the politics of history-making and interest in preserving the material remnants of the past in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century colonial society, looking at both indigenous pasts and those of European origin. Focusing on New Zealand, but also covering the Australian and Canadian experiences, it explores how different groups and political interests have sought to harness historical narrative in support of competing visions of identity and memory. Considering this within the frames of the local and national as well as of empire, the book offers a valuable critique of the study of colonial identity-making and cultures of colonisation. This book offers important insights for societies negotiating the legacy of a colonial past in a global present, and will be of particular value to all those concerned with museum, heritage, and tourism studies, as well as imperial history.
Never a Soul at Home
Author : Stuart Murray
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,80 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780864733412
Book Description
The generation of writers that came to prominence in the 1930s laid down the framework for modern New Zealand literature. This book looks at the beginnings of those writers' careers, at the influences of events like the Depression and the onset of war, and at the role of cultural institutions. Ultimately, it is about the myths that surround the 1930s writers, and the myths they made.
Arts and Crafts Movement in New Zealand, 1870-1940
Author : Ann Calhoun
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,58 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Arts and Crafts Movement
ISBN : 1869402294
Book Description
"Reveals ... the exquisite work and extraordinary skill of a group of New Zealand artists, most of them women, working in a wide variety of art and craft forms ... This flowering of local talent ... originated in the British Arts and Crafts movement and is associated with the growth of art education in this country: its quiet but dedicated character also suggests much about the situation of women in the years before and after 1900"--Jacket.
The Making of New Zealanders
Author : Ron Palenski
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 16,98 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1775581942
Book Description
Examining the development of a sense of national identity in a British colony, this highly authoritative work is a valuable addition to the literature in New Zealand. By looking at the onset of home-grown shipping, railway, and telegraph networks as well as at the Maori and kiwi experiences, not to mention the emergence of rugby teams, this book accounts for how transplanted Britons, and others, turned themselves into New Zealanders—a distinct group of people with their own songs and sports, symbols and opinions, political traditions, and sense of self. Tracing markers in popular culture, political processes, and public events, this informative and thrilling history focuses on the forging of a distinctive new culture and society.
