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Taken from the multi-award-winning Tangata Whenua, this Text weaves together evidence from numerous sources to people the ancient past: to offer readers a sense of the lives of Maori ancestors as they voyaged through centuries toward the South Pacific.

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Spanning nearly two centuries from first contact through to settlement and apology, this major work focuses on the human impact of the war in the Waikato, its origins and aftermath.

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In 1843, the New Zealand Company settlement of Nelson was rocked by the revolt of its emigrant labourers. By putting violence and class conflict at the centre, this fascinating microhistory upends the familiar image of colonial New Zealand.

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Through extensive use of official records and participant recollections, rare photography and authentic colour profiles, Ravi Rikhye tells the captivating story of the 1971 Indo-Pak War, the biggest military conflict fought between India and Pakistan to date, and the war that resulted in emergence of Bangladesh as an independent nation.

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In June 1967 Israel, which seemed on the verge of being annihilated by its Arab neighbors, took six days to redraw the strategic map in one of the most dramatic reversals of fortune in modern times. This volume provides a mass of new information and new insight into the conflict using both Israeli and Arab sources.

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In the early 1900s, 130 young Anglo-Indians were sent to New Zealand in an immigration scheme from Kalimpong, India. They were the mixed-race children of British tea planters and local women, and were placed as workers with New Zealand families. Jane McCabe here tells this compelling and little-known story, in pictures.

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*The most concise, grounded guide to the New Zealand wars *Written by well-respected historian and author of over 60 books *Fifth title in The NZ Series, for a general readership, and tailored to new NZ history curriculum

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The New Zealand Wars were a series of conflicts that profoundly shaped the course and direction of our nation's history. This book by leading historian Vincent O'Malley provides an accessible introduction to their causes, events and consequences.

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The first authoritative account of the Paulista War published in the English language, providing a detailed account of both aerial and ground combat operations.

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In a book that is both deeply personal and highly political, Melani Anae recalls the radical activism of Auckland's Polynesian Panthers - the movement modelled on the US Black Panther Party 'but without guns'.

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The Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti o Waitangi is a central document in the history of Aotearoa New Zealand. This lively account tells the story of the Treaty/Te Tiriti from its signing in 1840, through the debates and struggles of the nineteenth century, to the gathering political momentum of recent decades.

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The Treaty of Waitangi | Te Tiriti o Waitangi is a fully revised and updated edition of An Illustrated History of the Treaty of Waitangi, including new material. It brings the Treaty's history to life with a richly informative narrative and a wonderful range of photographs, maps and illustrations (now in full colour).

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Everything you always wanted to know about Irish Whiskey, the lifeblood of the people! The history, the difference between single malts and blends, the art of distilling and blending, and the explosion of new distilleries - learn how to taste as well as drink the water of life!

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In 1893 New Zealand became the first country in the world with universal suffrage: all New Zealand women now had the right to vote. This achievement owed much to an extraordinary document: the 1893 Women's Suffrage Petition.

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Time to Make a Song and Dance captures a spirit of revolt that swept over Auckland and Aotearoa in the 1960s, affecting every aspect of NZ culture. It included such figures as Janet Frame, Tim Shadbolt, Carmen, Hone Tuwhare, Jean Watson and Barry Crump, and culminated in a series of bombings that rocked Auckland at the end of the decade.

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Peter Burkes father was one of the Sons of ire men who risked imprisonment and deportation by standing up to the New Zealand Government and appealing the draft in a dramatic case that paved the way for others.

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With sympathy and insight, Alison Jones and Kuni Kaa Jenkins uncover the remarkable story of one of the first Maori travellers to Europe.

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Written by medical students at the University of Otago, this title examines aspects of the early and modern history of mental health institutions in New Zealand and attitudes toward patients as unfortunate aliens to the world of reason. It also looks at that country's professionalisation of psychiatry, women psychiatrists, and more.

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Reviewing and re-examining Operation Urgent Fury: the US Intervention in Grenada in 1983.

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Evoking emotions from the most turbulent time in our country's history, this book takes us to the heart of the New Zealand Wars with a series of first-hand accounts from Maori and Pakeha who either fought in or witnessed the conflicts that ravaged New Zealand between 1845 and 1872.

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