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"First published as Bali profile: people, events, circumstances (1001-1976) by American Universities Field Staff, New York, 1976; first Periplus edition as Bali chronicles, 2004"--Colophon.

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'A Long Time Coming' depicts the history of the Ngi Tahu settlement and shows how the two sides, Ngi Tahu and the Crown, led by Tipene ORegan for Ngi Tahu and the Minister of Treaty Negotiations Douglas Graham, managed to negotiate one of the countrys longest legal document.

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In 'A New History: The University of Canterbury 18732023', historian John Wilson offers a fresh interpretation of an institution that has played a central role in shaping the development of research culture and university education in Aotearoa New Zealand and that has been at the forefront of the shift to a postcolonial university world.

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New Zealanders today hold firm provincial identities, dating from the time when the young colony was divided into provinces: 1853 to 1876. Why were the provinces created How did settlers shape and change their institutions And why, just over 20 years later, did New Zealand abolish its provincial governments

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Aftermaths explores the life-changing intergenerational effects of colonial violence in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific. Written by leading scholars of colonial and Indigenous histories, this collection of illustrated essays reflects on a range of events through a variety of perspectives, including personal experiences, etc.

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Auckland: The Twentieth-Century Story journeys through the mosaic of cultures and lifestyles, anxieties and hopes, disasters and triumphs, virtues and vices that led to the transformation of New Zealand's largest city between 1900 and 2000.

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"This history covers the 200 years since European contact and the 150 years within that of "British rule." It seeks to explain how the Islands reached the desperate state they were in at 1990. Then it records, in a general way, the first 30 years of the Trust. Finally it attempts to suggest how the Trust, and the Island, may develop in the future"--Page xi.

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Everyone knows Australia was once a penal colony, but few realise that New Zealand prisoners were sent there. During the mid-nineteenth century at least 110 people were transported from New Zealand to serve time as convict labourers in the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania).

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Biography of William Guise Brittan and Joseph Brittan, founders of Canterbury and cricket enthusiasts.

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On 10 July 1985, French secret agents bombed the Greenpeace campaign flagship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour, New Zealand. Portuguese-born photographer Fernando Pereira died in the sabotage outrage that shook the world. The bombed ship was scuttled off a New Zealand bay in 1987 to form a living reef and Rainbow Warrior II was commissioned.

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History has rarely felt more topical or relevant as, all across the globe, nations have begun to debate who, how and what they choose to remember and forget. In this BWB Text, a team of five researchers, several from iwi invaded or attacked during the nineteenth-century New Zealand Wars, reflect on these questions of memory and loss locally.

(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

This book looks at the elaborate French government-backed plans to settle and annex 'Southern New Zealand' - and at what the French did when they found the British had got there first. The lives of the French (and German) men, women and children who ended up creating little settlements in Akaroa Harbour is a major focus of this fascinating book.

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This book tells the history of Maori travel and exploration, providing fresh light on a little known yet absorbing aspect of early New Zealand.

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A new edition of the English translation of Vaggioli's radical, prescient appraisal of British colonisation in Aotearoa. Amongst the first Benedictine priests sent to Aotearoa, Vaggioli documented important historical events such as the signing of Te Tiriti and the conflicts in Taranaki and Waikato.

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This comprehensive history of Aotearoa New Zealand written entirely from Mori viewpoints using Mori customary structures takes a fresh look at what Mori history is and how it is different from that formerly portrayed.

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In 1877, Kate Edger became the first woman to graduate from a New Zealand university. She went on to become a pioneer of women's education and worked tirelessly to mitigate violence against women and children. Diana Morrow tells the story of Edger's life and provides valuable insights into the role of women social reformers in our history.

(Paperback, Revised edition)

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From the well-known taiaha and mere to the more obscure wahaika and maripi, this is a comprehensive introduction to traditional weapons in use before Europeans reached New Zealand. Maori Weapons is a reliable reference work that is easily accessible to general readers while having particular appeal to students of mo rakau and kapa haka.

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