'A Bloody Difficult Subject': Ruth Ross, te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Making of History
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
'A Bloody Difficult Subject': Ruth Ross, te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Making of History
By (Author) Bain Attwood
Auckland University Press
Auckland University Press
11th May 2023
New Zealand
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
History
993
Physical Properties
Hardback
320
Width 170mm, Height 240mm, Spine 25mm
Description
One historian's research and the transformation of te Tiriti in New Zealand life.
Author Bio
Bain Attwood is a professor of history at Monash University in Melbourne. He is the author of several books, including Telling the Truth about Aboriginal History (Allen & Unwin, 2005), Possession: Batmans Treaty and the Matter of History (Melbourne University Press, 2009) and Empire and the Making of Native Title (Cambridge University Press, 2020). A graduate of universities on both sides of the Tasman, he has held fellowships at the Australian National University and Cambridge University and a visiting professorship at Harvard University. Empire and the Making of Native Title was the joint winner of the New Zealand Historical Associations 2021 W.H. Oliver Prize for the best book on any aspect of New Zealand history, and was shortlisted for the 2022 Ernest Scott Prize for the most distinguished contribution to the history of Australia or New Zealand or the history of colonisation.
