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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"New Zealand history"”.
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Unreinforced Masonry Precincts in New Zealand: History, Heritage, and Seismic Retrofit
New Zealand’s built heritage tradition is one of persistence and innovation, that continues to evolve in response to social and environmental conditions. Extensive damage caused by natural disasters such as the Canterbury earthquake sequence (2010-2011) focused public sentiment on an overlooked …
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To Settle the Settler: Pathologies of Colonialism in New Zealand History Films 1925 - 2005
… are thoroughly intertwined with colonial history. From the colonial project‘s drive to categorise and treat indigenous disorders, to postcolonial theorists‘ attempts to understand the psychological effects of (de)colonisation, psychology has provided a lens through which to investigate the …
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The Treaty of Waitangi: a study of its making, interpretation and role in New Zealand history
… has been a subject of some significance in New Zealand – a distinctive but subtle thread running through the fabric of the country’s history and shaping attitudes to race relations. A conviction strongly held by New Zealanders is that the treaty has made the country different from other …
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When Pākehā Feminism Met the Movement for Māori Sovereignty, 1975–1990
… little-known alliances between Pākehā (settler/New Zealand European) and Māori (Indigenous) women around the Māori sovereignty movement in Aotearoa New Zealand. It focuses on the febrile 1980s, a period marked by the Māori Renaissance (an enduring era of Indigenous revitalisation), nationwide …
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The Tyranny of the Microbe: Microbial Mentalities in New Zealand, c.1880–1915
… explores the development of ideas about germs in New Zealand, c.1880–1915. The examination of these concepts of disease provides new insights into the assumptions, anxieties and ideals of society and culture at a pivotal point in New Zealand history. This study offers a thematic account of public …
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Images of Pakeha-Māori: A Study of the Representation of Pakeha-Māori by Historians of New Zealand From Arthur Thomson (1859) to James Belich (1996)
… how Pakeha-Māori have been represented in New Zealand non-fiction writing during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The chronological and textual boundaries range from Arthur Thomson's seminal history The Story of New Zealand (1859) to James Belich's Making Peoples (1996). It examines …
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At the Margin of Empire: John Webster and Hokianga, 1841-1900
… from histories of the colonisation of New Zealand, at least in frontier settings. This has been the result of an unwillingness on the part of Pakeha academics to study people who were recast as colonisers following the rise of postcolonial discourses from the 1970s, as well as the …
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The collectors : Naval, Army and Air Intelligence in the New Zealand Armed Forces during the Second World War
… organisations of the armed services of New Zealand during the Second World War. It considers the intelligence bodies of the Navy, the Army and the Air Force and looks at their growth, development and demise, and assesses their effectiveness as intelligence organisations. The question of …
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'Kōrero Tuku Iho': Reconfiguring Oral History and Oral Tradition
The studies of oral history and oral tradition each have their own distinctive bodies of literature and preferred methodologies, yet share significant overlaps that make them difficult to differentiate. For many indigenous peoples, oral histories and traditions are key to their their past, present, …
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Mount Peel Station 1856-1982: a historical study of the development of a high-country run in Canterbury, New Zealand : this dissertation has been completed in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Diploma in Landscape Architecture, Lincoln College
… Peel Station is one of the few large stations in New Zealand to have remained under the ownership of the same family. It was established in 1856 by J.B.A. Acland and C.G. Tripp, and since this date it has been controlled by four generations of the Acland family. The size of the station has changed …
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A history of South Island whaling : A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Diploma of Parks and Recreation
… and those most commonly encountered around the New Zealand coastline. From there, the story of whaling operations, methods, the whalemen and the effects that they had on a young developing country are unfolded. The work concludes with a case for the preservation of New Zealand's last surviving …
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The Ahipara gumfields
The Kauri Gum Industry has played an important part in the development of Northland for more than one hundred years. Kauri gum was valued for its use in the manufacture of varnish, paint and linoleum, and it is sought after today primarily for its ornamental qualities. For the most part the old …
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Resisting captivity: An analysis of the New Zealand POW experience during World War Two
During World War Two more than 9,000 New Zealand servicemen were captured and imprisoned. Many of these men were confronted by the challenges of disempowerment and a prolonged imprisonment. However, histories of captivity have tended to portray the prisoner-of-war (POW) experience as a continual …
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The repudiation movement : a study of the Maori land protest movement in Hawkes Bay in the 1870's : a thesis presented in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History at Massey University.
The Repudiation Movement was a Maori land protest organization that aroused suspicion and fear in the minds of Europeans in Hawkes Bay in the 1870's. It was a movement that adopted European methods and institutions as its means for solving land grievances and was led by influential Chiefs and by …