(Hardback)

On 12 July 1863, British and colonial troops crossed Waikato Moris northern border, instigating the Waikato War. This book tells the story of the Queens Redoubt, and the buildup of military power along the Waikato border, which led directly to the most significant campaign of the New Zealand Wars, the invasion of the Waikato.

(Paperback)

'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.

(Hardback)

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.

(Paperback)

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.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

In this captivating collection of essays, acclaimed Pacific scholar Damon Salesa takes us on a journey through the rich cultural and historical tapestry of the Pacific.

(Paperback)

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.

(Hardback)

Forced labour haunts the streets we walk today and the spaces we take for granted.

(Paperback)

(Other book format)

"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.

(Paperback)

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).

(Paperback)

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

(Paperback, 3rd New edition)

Days of Darkness tells the story of events surrounding the invasion of Parihaka, chronicling the governments quest to assert British law and supremacy in Taranaki during the late nineteenth century.

(Paperback)

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.

(Paperback)

In this BWB Text, Lana Lopesi argues that globalising technologies and the adaptability of Moana peoples are now turning the ocean back into the unifying continent that it once was.

(Paperback)

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.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

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

(Hardback, New edition)

He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni/The Declaration of Independence of New Zealand was signed by fifty-two rangatira from 1835 to 1839. It was a powerful assertion of mana and rangatiratanga.

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

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.

(Paperback)

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.

(Paperback, 2nd New edition)

Straddling the Maori and European worlds of the 1860s, Titokowaru was one of New Zealand's greatest leaders. A brilliant strategist, he used every device to save the Taranaki people from European invasion.

(Paperback)