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Fragments from a Contested Past (BWB Texts) by Joanna Kidman, Vincent O'Malley, Liana MacDonald, Tom Roa and Keziah Wallis
$17.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non-fiction | Series: 1st | Reading Level: near fine
‘What a nation or society chooses to remember and forget speaks to its contemporary priorities and sense of identity. Understanding how that process works enables us to better imagine a future with a different, or wider, set of priorities.’ History has rarely felt more topical or relevant as, all across ...Show more
Haerenga : Early Maori Journeys Across the Globe (BWB Texts) by Vincent O'Malley
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: BWB Texts
Māori and Europeans were encountering one another for the first time not just along the shorelines of New Zealand but also on the streets of Melbourne, Liverpool and New York. From the late eighteenth century, Māori travellers spread out from New Zealand across the globe. They travelled for a variety of ...Show more
He Tohu Box Set by Claudia Orange, Barbara Brookes, Vincent O'Malley
$119.95 NZD
Category: No Category
BWB’s books on three iconic New Zealand documents are re-issued in hardback with new jackets, available again in a stunning slipcase.He Whakaputanga/The Declaration of Independence, Te Tiriti o Waitangi and The Women’s Suffrage Petition, published in conjunction with the National Library to accompany th ...Show more
He Whakaputanga : Declaration of Independence 1835 by Vincent O'Malley
$39.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: 1st
He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni/The Declaration of Independence of New Zealand was signed by fifty-two rangatira from 1835 to 1839. It was a powerful assertion of mana and rangatiratanga, made after decades of Maori and European encounters that had been steadily expanding - both within A ...Show more
He Whakaputanga: The Declaration Independence 1835 by Vincent O'Malley
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
The Beating Heart: A Political and Socio-economic History of Te Arawa by Vincent O'Malley
$60.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori | Reading Level: Near Fine
The Beating Heart details the determined efforts since the 1830s of Te Arawa tribes to work with the Crown and settlers to pursue a mutually advantageous relationship under the Treaty while at the same time maintaining their autonomy, culture, and control over their land and resources. While the ultimat ...Show more
The Great War For New Zealand - Waikato 1800-2000 by Vincent O'Malley
$79.99 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: near fine
A monumental new account of the defining conflict in New Zealand history. It was war in the Waikato in 1863-64 that shaped the nation in all kinds of ways: setting back Maori and Pakeha relations by several generations and allowing the government to begin to assert the kind of real control over the coun ...Show more
The New Zealand Wars | Nga Pakanga o Aotearoa by Vincent O'Malley
$39.95 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: 1st | Reading Level: near fine
The New Zealand Wars were a series of conflicts that profoundly shaped the course and direction of our nations history. Fought between the Crown and various groups of Maori between 1845 and 1872, the wars touched many aspects of life in nineteenth century New Zealand, even in those regions spared actual ...Show more
The Treaty of Waitangi Companion: Maori and Pakeha from Tasman to Today by Edited by Vincent O'Malley, Bruce Stirling, Wally Penetito
$45.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori
Since the Treaty of Waitangi was signed by Maori chiefs and Governor Hobson in 1840 it has become the defining document in New Zealand history. From the New Zealand Wars to the 1975 Land March, from the Kingitanga to the Waitangi Tribunal, from Captain Cook to Hone Harawira, The Treaty of Waitangi Comp ...Show more
Voices from the New Zealand Wars | He Reo nō ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa by Vincent O'Malley
$49.95 NZD
Category: NZ History
'Welcome to our story, this history. Wherever in the world the bones of your ancestors lie, wherever their ashes may have been dispersed, here you will find traces of them, and of yourself... It is, of course, a story of colonisation and resistance - and a history that has never stopped repeating.' The ...Show more
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