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Why Memory Matters: 'Remembered histories' and the Politics of the Past

(Paperback)

By: Rowan Light

ISBN: 9781990046957
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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Historian Rowan Light offers a series of case studies about local debates about history in New Zealand. These provisional judgements of the past illuminate aspects of what it means to remember and why it matters.

Windows on a Women's World: The Dominican Sisters of Aotearoa New Zealand

(Paperback)

By: Susannah Grant

ISBN: 9780947522421
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Otago University Press
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Susannah Grant chronicles the astonishing transformation of the New Zealand Dominican sisters from a strictly enclosed body of religious teachers to a congregation of religious women who are integrated in the wider community and engaged in a range of active ministries, while still remaining deeply committed to shared Dominican ideals.

Wings Over Sinai: The Egyptian Air Force During the Sinai War, 1956

(Paperback)

By: David Nicolle

ISBN: 9781911096610
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
UK Publication Date: 15th March 2017
Publisher: Helion & Company
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Working Lives c. 1900: A Photographic Essay

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By: Erik Olssen

ISBN: 9781877578519
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: Otago University Press
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Worlds Apart

(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

By: Ian Campbell

ISBN: 9781927145029
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2011
Publisher: Canterbury University Press
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This concise and readable narrative has now been revised to bring the story of the island world - from its first settlement by raft and canoe voyagers, through the period of western contact and acculturation - up to 2010.

Worse Things Happen At Sea

(Paperback)

By: John McCrystal

ISBN: 9781988538761
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: David Bateman Ltd
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Bear witness to some of the worst nautical disasters from New Zealand and around the world in these fascinating, and endlessly engrossing accounts inspired by John McCrystals radio series Shipwreck Tales. From heart-wrenching tales of survival against all odds to gob-smacking acts of foolish hubris.

$20 and Change: Harriet Tubman, George Floyd, and the Struggle for Radical Democracy: Harriet Tubman vs. Andrew Jackson, and the Future of American Democracy

(Paperback)

By: Clarence Lusane

ISBN: 9780872868854
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
Publisher: City Lights Books
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'A Bloody Difficult Subject': Ruth Ross, te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Making of History

(Hardback)

By: Bain Attwood

ISBN: 9781869409821
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
Publisher: Auckland University Press
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One historians research and the transformation of te Tiriti in New Zealand life.

100 Nasty Women of History: Brilliant, badass and completely fearless women everyone should know

(Paperback)

By: Hannah Jewell

ISBN: 9781473671249
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 20th February 2020
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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100 fascinating and brilliantly written stories about history's bravest, baddest but little known 'nasty' women from across the world.

1001 Names for Australian Babies

(Paperback, 3rd edition)

By: Sarah Davis

ISBN: 9780143003496
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2005
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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Features a comprehensive listing of names for Australian babies, including traditional, biblical, modern and invented names, as well as their origins, meanings, and variations.

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed: Revised and Updated

(Paperback)

By: Eric H. Cline

ISBN: 9780691208015
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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1217: The Battles that Saved England

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By: Dr Catherine Hanley

ISBN: 9781472860873
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 9th May 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An engrossing history of the pivotal year 1217 when invading French forces were defeated and the future of England secured.

1421: The Year China Discovered The World

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By: Gavin Menzies

ISBN: 9780553815221
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2003
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2004
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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In 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. But by the time they returned home, Zhu Di had lost control and China was turning inwards, leaving the records of their discoveries to be forgotten for centuries.

1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project

(Hardback)

By: Peter W. Wood

ISBN: 9781641771245
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: Encounter Books,USA
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1666: Plague, War and Hellfire

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By: Rebecca Rideal

ISBN: 9781473623545
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2017
Publisher: John Murray Press
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In sixteen hundred and sixty-six . . .

1788

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By: Watkin Tench

ISBN: 9781921922312
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
Publisher: Text Publishing
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An extraordinary first-hand account of the early years of Australian settlement, 1788 is highly readable and hugely entertaining.

1788: The Brutal Truth Of The First Fleet

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By: David Hill

ISBN: 9781741668001
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2009
Publisher: Random House Australia
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The First Fleet is the story of the very first European Australians, reluctant pioneers who travelled into the unknown in order to form a colony. But why was the settlement of New South Wales proposed in the first place Who were the main players in a story that changed the world and ultimately forged the Australian nation

1835: The Founding of Melbourne & the Conquest of Australia

(Paperback)

By: James Boyce

ISBN: 9781760644802
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: Black Inc.
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1914: The Year the World Ended

(Hardback)

By: Paul Ham

ISBN: 9781864711424
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: Random House Australia
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1922: Scenes from a Turbulent Year

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By: Nick Rennison

ISBN: 9780857305015
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 29th March 2022
Publisher: Oldcastle Books Ltd
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1922 was a year of great turbulence and upheaval. Its events reverberated throughout the rest of the twentieth century and still affect us today, 100 years later. In a sequence of vividly written sketches, Nick Rennison conjures up all the drama and diversity of an extraordinary year....

1923: The Forgotten Crisis in the Year of Hitler s Coup

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By: Mark Jones

ISBN: 9781529360745
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 18th January 2024
Publisher: John Murray Press
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1923: The Forgotten Crisis in the Year of Hitlers Coup

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By: Mark Jones

ISBN: 9781529360738
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The astonishing story of one of the most significant years in modern European history.

1942: Britain at the Brink

(Paperback)

By: Taylor Downing

ISBN: 9780349144528
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
UK Publication Date: 19th January 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A gripping new work of popular history about a critical year in world history, and Britain's bleakest hour, by the acclaimed author of 1983: The World at the Brink.

1942: the year the war came to Australia: The bombing of Darwin and the attack on Sydney by the Japanese

(Paperback)

By: Peter Grose

ISBN: 9781761066641
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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The story of the bombing of Darwin and the Japanese midget sub attack on Sydney Harbour in one volume from the bestselling author of An Awkward Truth and A Very Rude Awakening.

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