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Knucklebones and Double Happys. Golliwogs and Tin canoes. Joy Toys and NuCraze, Marbles and Meccano. Lumve bears, Tonka trucks and Buzzy Bees. Hello Girls and Boys! tells the remarkable story of New Zealanders and their toys from Maori voyagers to computer gamers.

In this book, Alistair Woodward and Tony Blakely tell the extraordinary story of life and death in Aotearoa New Zealand from first Maori settlement to the 21st century. They analyse the impact of nutrition and disease, immigration and unemployment, alcohol and obesity, medicine and vaccination. The result is a powerful argument about why we live and why we die (and what we might do about it).

From the origins of Maori (and Pakeha ideas about those origins), through land purchases and the King Movement of the nineteenth century, and on to twentieth century politics and the new history of the Waitangi Tribunal, Sorrenson brings together his major writing from the last 56 years into a powerful whole. Throughout his career, Sorrenson has been concerned with world views—to understand Maori conceptions of Kingitanga or Pakeha ideas of ra...

Maranga mai! Our people. We have become complacent. Our language and our marae are struggling. Yet we remain asleep. We need to wake up!" - Merimeri Penfold, Taitokerau kuia From the time of the M?ori renaissance of the 1970s and 1980s, M?ori made huge efforts to reinvigorate te reo and the life of marae as the twin cornerstones of M?ori identity. M?ori television and radio stations were set up, the M?ori Language Commission established and k...

Uses the life of one man as a unique lens through which to view the early history of New Zealand. Born in Scotland in 1818, John Webster came to New Zealand via Australia in 1841 and spent most of the rest of his life in Hokianga. At the Margin of Empire charts his colourful experiences carving out a fortune as the region's leading timber trader and cultivating connections with the leading figures of the day.

Biographies of 20 distinguished New Zealand writers are included in this profile of 19th-century authors. The works of writers in literary and travel genres such as Joel Polack, William Colenso, Samuel Butler, and Jessie Mackay illustrate the development of social, political, and literary thought in New Zealand during this period. The talented, entertaining, and courageous writers featured offer an overview of literary experience in a new land.

Love and the rearticulation of New Zealand mythology from a Polynesian perspective are the central themes of this new collection of Hawaii-based Maori poetry. The poems open up two cultural traditions--a Polynesian oral tradition and a written European tradition--with subjects that range from ancient myths to the complexity and moral ambiguity of the modern world. Poetry lovers will find pleasure in the poems' conceptual energy, constantly yie...

From one of New Zealand's most celebrated writers comes this poetry collection that encompasses moving memories of childhood and ruminations on horses and cows, Auckland, and even the author's own legs. These satirical poems take weapons from the writers of the past and skewer politicians of the present, and reflect on a range of international writers, including Allen Curnow, Janet Frame, and Denis Glover. With sometimes biting and often humor...

Distinguished novelist and poet, C. K. Stead is also widely respected as a critic. Here he combines most of the important essays in "In the Glass Case" (AUP, 1981), long out of print, and five from "Answering to the Language" (AUP, 1989).

This is a lively and enjoyable first collection of poems by a writer who is well known in the New Zealand literary world and who has published widely in journals. It is a polished, elegant, and mature work. Chris Price's poems are characterized by witty surprises, sudden unexpected shifts of image, and many forms of wordplay. Covering a wide range of interests, themes, and tones, there is an alertness and sense of delight about these poems.

Presents the first history of Maori war captives. Drawing on Maori oral sources as well the records of colonists, Petrie analyses freedom and unfreedom in traditional Maori society, the role of economics and mana in shaping captivity, and how the arrival of colonists, trade and war transformed Maori society and the place of captives.

From the "golden weather" of postwar economic growth, through the globalization, economic challenges, and protest of the 1960s and 1970s, to the free market revolution and new immigrants of the 1980s and 1990s and beyond, this account, the most complete and comprehensive history of New Zealand since 1945, illustrates the chronological and social history of the country with the engaging stories of real individuals and their experiences. Leading...

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Presents lyrics anchored by three sequences such as: the title sequence, which imagines a fifteenth-century French poet, Francois Villon, fetching up in the deserted West Coast town of Millerton, another sequence evokes the mysteries of the Indian rope trick, while a concluding group focuses on nineteenth-century missionary Samuel Marsden.

Shows how colonial settlers from the northern hemisphere adapted the age-old festivals of Christmas, New Year and Easter to a new world of upside-down seasons, unfamiliar vegetation and cultural diversity. This work tells us that along with vision, dedication and a capacity for hard work, our forebears also brought jollity and frivolity.

The "black river" of mortality is a constant presence in this latest collection by critically acclaimed poet C. K. Stead. Written within the last 18 months, these poignant poems vividly explore the poet's feeling of frailty following a stroke, which temporarily impaired his ability to read or write, and the subsequent excitement of recovery.

Drawing upon more than 80 personal diaries and journals of those on board, this resource explores the rich experience and the trials and tribulations of hopeful Anglo-Celtic pilgrims headed to Australia and New Zealand aboard migrant ships in the late 19th century. From daily routines to matters of food, health, religion, crime, and mutiny, this history unearths the humor, scandal, and personal triumph that defined the nautical pilgrimage of h...

<, div>, <, div>, This landmark study examines issues surrounding New Zealand&, #8217, s Treaty of Waitangi, focusing on recent Fiji revolutions and indigenous customary rights to the seabed and foreshore. In this revised edition, the author approaches these complex and controversial matters with a careful, thorough, and principled approach while dealing with the broad constitutional issues and responding to comments made by other s...

Michele Leggott publishes this collection of poems about the effects of losing her sight.

Gardens, friends, paintings and music inhabit and bring to life this collection of poems.