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| ABORIGINAL PLANT COLLECTORS : Botanists & Australian Aboriginal People in the Nineteenth Century [Philip A Clarke] Explores the impact of indigenous people upon the European discovery of Australian plants, spanning the period from the expansion of world exploration in the seventeenth century to the beginning of systematic scientific studies in the late nineteenth century. Observations of Australian Aboriginal hunting and gathering practices provided Europeans with important clues concerning the productivity of the land. British colonists who came in 1788 to establish themselves in the 'new' country of Australia found indigenous land 'owners' to be both a physical threat and an important source of information about the environment. Plant hunters were a hardy breed of men primarily employed to make collections of dried and living plants in the fledging colonies and to send them back to Europe. They led exciting but dangerous lives on the fringes of the empire, a few of them dying while field collecting. Aboriginal guides accompanied plant collectors into the field. This book presents investigates the role of particular Aboriginal groups and individuals in the botanical discovery of Australia. The bulk of this book is a detailed description of the interaction between particular plant collectors and Aboriginal people through the nineteenth century. There are chapters on the work of George Caley, Allan Cunningham, Von Mueller and the resident plant collectors in WA, SA and Tasmania. { 192pp, 210x285mm, February 2008; HB, £17.30, 1877058688:9781877058684 , Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd } |
| BEYOND THE BREAKWATER : Short Stories 1948-1998 by O.E. Middleton [Lawrence Jones (ed)] "Beyond the Breakwater" brings together twenty-six outstanding short stories spanning half a century by an acclaimed master of the genre, O.E. Middleton. While Middleton has been linked with the masculine realist New Zealand tradition of Frank Sargeson and Roderick Finlayson, "Beyond the Breakwater" also contains a diverse range of international settings and characters, from Berthe Albrecht's postwar experiences of Paris in 'For Once in Your Life' to the secular London Eucharist of 'The Doss-house and the Duchess'. At his best, Middleton's attention to detail and fully realised context brings to mind earlier masters such as Yukio Mishima and Guy de Maupassant; in a typical Middleton story, carefully observed detail builds an impressionistic platform on which the destinies of his characters unravel. { 368pp, 140x210mm, June 2008; HB, £19.50, 1877372560:9781877372568 , Otago University Press } |
| BRITISH CAPITAL, ANTIPODEAN LABOUR : Working the New Zealand Waterfront, 1915-1951 [Anna Green] This book is about work on the New Zealand waterfront in the first half of the twentieth century. With a small domestic market, the country depended for its wealth on trade with the rest of the world. That trade relied on the carriage of goods by sea and so the ports played a vital role in the nation's economy, and in the nation's labour relations. A series of bitter labour disputes arose out of the differing goals of shipping companies and waterside workers, culminating in 1951. Based on oral histories with both former employers and workers, this is the first book to take the long view on the processes of work on the waterfront, considering the organisation of labour and the ownership of the industry. It is especially relevant as the old issues, including insecurity of employment and intensified hours of work, resurface. { 202pp, 155x230mm, January 2001; PB, £15.99, 187713399X:9781877133992 , University of Otago Press } |
| CONCISE COMPANION TO ABORIGINAL HISTORY [Dr Malcolm Prentis] Provides an overview of Australian Aboriginal history from creation stories involving the Dreaming through to Aboriginal cultural and political activity in the 21st century. Its alphabetically arranged entries include biographies, historical events, pioneering work by anthropologists, historical controversies, literature and sport, and a number of social issues. Malcolm Prentis has paid a particular attention to covering all regions of Australia and the Torres Strait Islands, and all periods of recorded history. As well, the book includes photographs, maps, population tables, a chronology and bibliography. { 264pp, 135x210mm, February 2008; HB, £13.00, 1877058629:9781877058622 , Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd } |
| CONCISE COMPANION TO ABORIGINAL HISTORY [Dr Malcolm Prentis] Provides an overview of Australian Aboriginal history from creation stories involving the Dreaming through to Aboriginal cultural and political activity in the 21st century. Its alphabetically arranged entries include biographies, historical events, pioneering work by anthropologists, historical controversies, literature and sport, and a number of social issues. Malcolm Prentis has paid a particular attention to covering all regions of Australia and the Torres Strait Islands, and all periods of recorded history. As well, the book includes photographs, maps, population tables, a chronology and bibliography. { 264pp, 135x210mm, February 2008; HB, £13.00, 1877058629:9781877058622 , Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd } |
| DISTANT SHORE : Irish Migration & New Zealand Settlement [Lyndon Fraser (ed)] This book tells the story of Irish migration to New Zealand in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In a series of essays written by leading scholars in the field, it offers a glimpse into the lives and experiences of these newcomers as they left post-Famine Ireland and made their way to a destination 'half the world from home'. It uses many sources, including letters from migrants to their families in Ireland, and also looks at the history of Irish organisations in New Zealand, both Catholic and Protestant. { 196pp, 155x230mm, January 2000; PB, £15.99, 1877133973:9781877133978 , University of Otago Press } |
| FIGHT FOR LIBERTY & FREEDOM : The Origins of Australian Aboriginal Activism [John Maynard] Opposition to the British colonisation of Australia did not spring from the Mabo decision or the Native Title Act, nor was it born in the vibrant 1960s, which culminated in the famous tent embassy in 1972. Rather, the first politically organised and united all-Aboriginal activist group was the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association (AAPA), begun in 1924 under the leadership of Frederick Maynard. For the first time Aboriginal people voiced their disapproval in public in a well-organised way. They opened offices in Sydney, held street rallies. conducted public meetings, gained newspaper coverage, wrote letters and petitions to Government at all levels, and collaborated with the international black labor movement. The AAPA's demands resonate today. They centred on Aboriginal rights to land, stopping Aboriginal children being taken from their families, the acquisition of citizenship rights, and defending a distinct Aboriginal cultural identity. This form of resistance and organised action has now endured for more than seventy years and through a detailed exploration of the life of his grandfather, John Maynard reveals the AAPA's invaluable legacy. { 186pp, 155x230mm, November 2007; PB, £21.50, 0855755504:9780855755508 , Aboriginal Studies Press } |
| HISTORY OF NEW ZEALAND & ITS INHABITANTS : First English Translation 2000 -- First Published 1896 [Dom Felice Vaggioli] Vaggioli (an Italian monk, and one of the first Benedictine priests to be sent to New Zealand) published this history in 1896. Drawing on first-hand accounts, he describes the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, the Taranaki wars, the war in Waitkato. He also recorded details of the lives and customs of the Maori people he was evangelising and presents criticisms of both Protestantism and British Colonisation. This is the book's first translation into English. { 432pp, 155x230mm, January 2000; PB, £15.99, 1877133523:9781877133527 , University of Otago Press } |
| LANDSCAPE/COMMUNITY : Perspectives from New Zealand History [Tony Ballantyne & Judith Bennett (eds)] New Zealanders have a strong affinity with the land and firm connections are drawn between the land and cultural identity in the economy, in politics and in art. The collection of essays explores these complex relationships in different parts of the country and at different times. Environment versus settler society has been a long-standing theme and these essays look at aspects of this. Land ownership -- Maori and Pakeha -- and the families that make communities are the subjects of two further essays. The next two contributors look at rural society, in search of the itinerant worker and harvest festivities. Two final essays deal with more recent subjects: the challenge to a major government hydro-electric project and New Zealanders abroad in the world. { 190pp, 150x230mm, November 2005; PB, £15.99, 1877372064:9781877372063 , University of Otago Press } |
| LIFE B'LONG ALI DRUMMOND : A Life in the Torres Strait [Samantha Faulkner] Family is one of the most important things in Sam Faulkner's life. Ali Drummond is Sam Faulkner's grandfather, and this is his story. Ali Drummond has had an extraordinary life, by any standards. Orphaned when young, Ali took to a life at sea aged just fourteen. Originally taken on as an apprentice, Ali applied himself to learning the skills he needed to survive and prosper in a sometimes dangerous life seeking pearl shells, trochus and bêche de mer. Alert to the knowledge of Japanese divers, Ali learnt well from them and went on to become an expert diver and skipper himself. After years on the mainland, cutting cane, roadworking and supporting his growing family, Ali returned to his beloved Torres Strait. He has been a strong community supporter, has enjoyed playing lawn bowls competitively and has provided advice about the maritime environment he knows so well -- knowledge now keenly sought by scientists and others. Now 90, Ali is one of a handful of elders able to share these stories first-hand. Two themes emerge strongly: the importance of Ali's wife Carmen and their family, and the desire to be out on the water, fishing. Sam Faulkner has rendered Ali Drummond's life with affection, skilfully weaving together Ali's stories with colourful reminiscences from his family. Samantha Faulkner's passion is to share the stories from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia with other Australians and the international community. { 90pp, 140x215mm, July 2007; PB, £13.50, 0855755563:9780855755560 , Aboriginal Studies Press } |
| SHIP OF DREAMS : Masculinity in contemporary Pakeha & Maori fiction of Aotearoa/New Zealand [Alistair Fox] The first critical study to investigate at length how masculine subjectivities are represented in contemporary New Zealand fiction. Notoriously self-contained and private, Kiwi men are often reluctant to talk about their personal feelings and embarrassed at the thought that any private emotional difficulties could be exposed to critical examination. One must go to their imaginative literature to make contact with the reality that underlies the (often calculatedly deceptive) surface. In his investigation of these issues, Fox demonstrates the crucial importance of Pakeha and Maori cultural predispositions influencing masculine identity in this country -- often at the cost of great psychic pain for the men involved. { 192pp, 155x235mm, May 2008; PB, £17.50, 1877372544:9781877372544 , Otago University Press } |
| VASTLY INGENIOUS : The Archaeology of Pacific Material Culture in Honour of Janet M Davidson [Atholl Anderson, Kaye Green & Foss Leach (eds)] Reflecting in 1769 on the manners and customs of the South Sea islands, Joseph Banks remarked that 'in every expedient for taking fish they are vastly ingenious'. Hence the title of this book on Pacific material culture, past and present. Bringing together an impressive group of scholars of Pacific archaeology, the editors have designed the book as both a thoroughly up-to-date and wide-ranging survey and as a festschrift for museum archaeologist Janet Davidson, until recently based at The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. { 319pp, 190x255mm, September 2007; HB, £32.50, 1877372455:9781877372452 , University of Otago Press } |
| WOMEN & CHILDREN LAST : The Burning of the Emigrant Ship Cospatrick [Charles Clark] A sea voyage in the nineteenth century was not for the faint-hearted. The hazards were many and accidents commonplace. Of the ways a ship might meet its end, destruction by fire was perhaps the most feared. Wooden sailing vessels were particularly vulnerable and without breathing apparatus it was next to impossible to fight a fire below decks. The period saw a number of catastrophic shipboard fires, but that involving the New Zealand-bound emigrant ship Cospatrick was certainly the most destructive. When she burned and sank off the coast of Southern Africa in 1874, nearly 500 people lost their lives. There was a desperate battle to quench the fire, a huge death toll as the vessel was being abandoned, and acts of cannibalism in the one lifeboat that remained afloat. This book is based on research carried out in Britain, New Zealand and Australia. While it relates the story of the Cospatrick and the nightmare survival of only three people, it also looks at the larger picture of safety at sea. { 174pp, 170x240mm, February 2006; PB, £15.99, 1877372145:9781877372148 , University of Otago Press } |