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| ADVENTURES IN DEMOCRACY : A History of the Vote in New Zealand [Neill Atkinson] The year 2003 is the 150th anniversary of Parliamentary elections in New Zealand and this book was commissioned by the Electoral Commission to celebrate. In a well-illustrated and readable text, the book takes the reader through the evolution of modern voting. { 319pp, 150x230mm, August 2003; PB, £15.99, 1877276588:9781877276583 , University of Otago Press } |
| ADVOCATING FOR CHILDREN : International Perspecitves on Children's Rights [Anne Smith et al (eds)] Presents selected papers from a July 1999 conference, held in New Zealand. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child provides a reference point for discussions on children and trauma, children's rights and education, and actions of governments to implement the Convention. Contributors represent an interdisciplinary forum of professionals working directly or indirectly with children, including lawyers, teachers, social workers, health professionals, and researchers. { 224pp, 150x230mm, January 2000; PB, £15.99, 1877133906:9781877133909 , University of Otago Press } |
| AMASSING TREASURES FOR ALL TIMES : Sir George Grey, Colonial Bookman & Collector [Donald Jackson Kerr] Sir George Grey, governor of New Zealand, South Australia and the Cape Colony, was an outstanding British colonial statesman in the nineteenth century. Brilliant and inscrutable, Grey, who was in contact with key Victorians from Darwin to Whately throughout his life, played a central role in overseeing the development of British colonies into politically autonomous entities. Less well-known of Grey is that he was also an obsessive collector of rare books and artefacts, which he selflessly bequeathed to the people he governed. This study, written by a former librarian of the Auckland Grey Collection, sheds desperately needed light on the genius and magnanimity of an increasingly controversial figure, demonstrating the complex humanity underlying his apparent remoteness. It is the first study on Grey of its kind. { 351pp, 155x235mm, August 2006; HB, £32.50, 1877372218:9781877372216 , University of Otago Press } |
| AMONGST FRIENDS : Australian & New Zealand Voices from America [Patty O'Brien & Bruce Vaughn (eds)] This book provides a rare contemplation of the bonds between the United States, Australia and New Zealand. Since 1997 the Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Washington, has sponsored an ANZAC Lecture series and Waitangi addresses to observe new Zealand's national day. These lectures by Australians and New Zealanders form the essays in this book. Appendices include the texts of the Treaty of Waitangi, the ANZUS Treaty and details of Australian and New Zealand causalities in World War I and at Gallipoli. { 222pp, 150x230mm, April 2005; PB, £24.50, 1877276936:9781877276934 , University of Otago Press } |
| ANATOMY OF A MEDICAL SCHOOL : A History of Medicine at the University of Otago, 1875-2000 [Dorothy Page] Otago University's Medical School is Australasia's second oldest -- after Melbourne (1862) and before Sydney (1883) -- and this major history of the school has just been published. Modelled on the Edinburgh School, and operating within a relatively new university when it was founded in 1875, the School had a long struggle for resources in a country that was still establishing its domestic economy. The gold rushes made Otago rich and Provincial Superintendent James Macandrew pushed for the School's establishment. In the following years, often only the vision and determination of individual staff carried it forward. And as the School moved into the twentieth century, the world in which it operated kept changing, with several revolutions in medicine, technology, society and education. While "Anatomy of a Medical School" has to include an account of funding and building, author Dorothy Page has focused on people: the administrators, clinical teachers and researchers, students and graduates. Just how were perpetrators of pranks in Anatomy turned into sober medical practitioners and specialists? There is a sense in which a medical school is forever made up of its past, as well as its present students, because they carry its teaching and influence out into the world. Otago's graduates include humanitarian activists, war heroes, and political leaders as well as general practitioners and surgeons. And they are to be found on every continent and in most countries. Then there are the firsts: first Maori medical graduate in Te Rangi Hiroa, better known as Sir Peter Buck (1904), first female medical graduate in Emily Siedeberg (1896), first New Zealand woman to register as a medical practitioner in Margaret Cruickshank (1897), first New Zealand-born Governor General in Sir Arthur Porritt. The list goes on. It is impossible for one book to tell the story of the many gifted men and women who, between them, built an institution whose reputation for excellence in research and teaching is yet another Kiwi model of achievement against the odds. As the author says in her introduction, 'It has been an exhilarating journey.' { 406pp, 215x280mm, July 2008; HB, £27.50, 1877372242:9781877372247 , Otago University Press } |
| ANTS OF NEW ZEALAND [Warwick Don. Foreword by Edward O Wilson] Written by the acknowledged expert, this first book on the subject identifies and describes both native and exotic species. Including notes on identification and collection of ants, it is illustrated throughout with diagrams and photographs, in colour and black and white. The book is the outcome of a lifetime's research by the author. He reveals that there are 37 established species of ants in New Zealand, 11 of which are considered to be endemic. This leaves 26 that are exotic or introduced, 2 of which are recent arrivals. Three of 4 additional recent arrivals pose serious threats to New Zealand's invertebrate fauna and economy if they ever become established. New Zealand's endemic ant fauna comprises a mixture of 'primitive' and 'advanced' species. Like spiders, ants can tell us something about New Zealand's Gondwanan past. Questions about the identification of ants are frequently fielded by museums. The illustrations and photographs in this volume will greatly assist this task. For would-be students of ants, there is also a useful chapter on collecting and studying the fauna. { 240pp, 190x255mm, November 2007; HB, £32.50, 1877372471:9781877372476 , University of Otago Press } |
| ARROWTOWN : History & Walks [Julia Bradshaw] A town born of gold, Arrowtown has retained much of its goldfields character and is one of New Zealand's most picturesque places. Less well known are the tussock-covered hills and gullies north of the town, where the visitor can ramble for miles, exploring gold mining sites and relics. Julia Bradshaw introduces the town, its history and natural history, and gives detailed descriptions of walks, short and long. { 56pp, 170x240mm, January 2001; PB, £13.99, 1877276200:9781877276200 , University of Otago Press } |
| AXIS : Poems & Drawings [Cilla McQueen] Cilla McQueen is one of New Zealand's major poets. This is a collection of her poems from the past twenty years, drawn from five volumes of her published work. Also included here are a selection of her drawings and musical scores -- of 'singing landscapes' and 'conversations in crowded rooms'. { 144pp, 170x240mm, January 2001; PB, £14.99, 1877276065:9781877276064 , University of Otago Press } |
| BEYOND THE BREAKWATER : Short Stories 1948-1998 [O E Middleton] "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. { 367pp, 155x230mm, June 2008; HB, £19.50, 1877372560:9781877372568 , Otago University Press } |
| BITTER SWEET : Indigenous Women in the Pacific [Alison Jones et al (eds)] A collection of writing by 10 indigenous Pacific women. Essay topics include images of Maori women on New Zealand postcards, the interests and cultural identity of Maori women, education in Western Samoa, young Samoan women and sexuality, gender and work in Fiji, deconstructing the 'exotic' female beauty, representation in films, and poetry. { 160pp, 150x230mm, January 2000; PB, £15.99, 1877133876:9781877133879 , University of Otago Press } |
| BLACK HORSE & OTHER STORIES [Ruth Dallas] The people in these stories do not speak very much, and what they often say has to carry the weight of everything that is unspoken. We meet a farmer from Burnt Valley -- his navy blue suit stretched tightly over his bent shoulders, a woman huddled under am oilskin trying to coax the fire to burn, a child jumping backwards and forwards over the ditch and singing. These people plant gardens, chop wood, make jam -- everyday tasks that go on through grief and pleasure, childhood and old-age, making a framework for endurance. They are 'Ordinary people. I like writing about ordinary working people'. The stories of Ruth Dallas echo the precisely observed landscape of her poems; a New Zealand of small towns and struggling farms where sheets of water cover the low-lying paddocks, and macrocarpas share the rusted roofs of old wooden farmhouses. While the landscape is particular, the stories are universal. Like the best writers in this tradition, Dallas makes the connection by drawing us into a world that we instantly recognise and are unable to forget. { 111pp, 150x230mm, January 2000; PB, £13.99, 187713385X:9781877133855 , University of Otago Press } |
| BOOKS & BOOTS : The Story of New Zealand Publisher, Writer & Long Distance Walker, Alfred Hamish Reed [Ian Dougherty] A. H. Reed's enduring contribution to his adopted homeland was as a publisher, writer and benefactor, but he is also remembered as a long-distance walker. Born in England in 1875, he migrated to New Zealand with his family in 1887. With little formal education, he transcended his working roots in the Northland gumfields to found and nurture the publishing firm of A. H. & A. W. Reed. the firm's first publications were for Sunday Schools, as Reed and his wife Belle were dedicated Christians. But Reed was also a businessman, and with his nephew Clif expanded his list to books on New Zealand history and culture. Officially retired in 1940, he continued to be involved in the firm's publishing policy and to write prodigiously, including books about his long-distance walks. He was also a book collector and donated the Reed Collection at the Dunedin Public Library. This biography offers an engaging portrait of 'Alf', his love of Belle, and his man contributions to the wider community. It also includes a bibliography of his works. { 252pp, 155x235mm, November 2005; HB, £24.50, 1877372129:9781877372124 , University of Otago Press } |
| BORDERLAND PRACTICES : Regulating Alternative Therapies in New Zealand [Kevin Dew] There are quacks and charlatans on both sides of the orthodox/alternative medicine divide, yet there are therapeutic practices which are undeniably beneficial on both sides as well, argues Dew. For him, the problem becomes the ways in which these practices are validated and regulated, encompassing questions of access to state funds, who has the right to control particular techniques, what standards are used to provide legitimacy, and other conundrums. He argues that alternative therapies are being subsumed by a philosophy of rationalism that promotes a particular orthodoxy that limits the accepted claims and practices of alternative medicines in New Zealand. { 176pp, 155x230mm, June 2003; PB, £15.99, 1877276529:9781877276521 , University of Otago 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 } |
| BUILDING GOD'S OWN COUNTRY : Historical Essays on Religions in New Zealand [John Stenhouse & Jane Thomson (eds)] Southern Presbyterians, communities of faith, missionary encounters, and gender are the major themes of 15 essays originally written by postgraduate history students at the University of Otago between 1975 and 2001. The topics include the Free Church settlement of Otago in 1848-53, Moray Place Congregational Church from 1862 to 1966, Mormons in New Zealand from 1854 to 1940, and an Anglican female priesthood in New Zealand. { 280pp, 155x230mm, September 2004; PB, £15.99, 1877276928:9781877276927 , University of Otago Press } |
| BUILT FOR US : The Work of Government & Colonial Architects, 1860s - 1960s [Lewis E Martin] This book presents a visual survey of the surviving work of six architects employed by New Zealand's Public Works Department -- which later became the Ministry of Works -- from the 1860s to 1960s. Individual chapters are devoted to William Henry Clayton, Pierre Finch Martineau Burrows, John Campbell, John Thomas Mair, Robert Adams Patterson, and Francis Gordon Wilson. Each chapter includes a brief biographical sketch of the featured architect followed by illustrations of the public buildings, drawn by Martin. The chapters are chronologically ordered, allowing the reader to see the evolution of New Zealand architecture from colonialism to modernism. { 192pp, 240x215mm, November 2004; HB, £32.50, 1877276642:9781877276644 , University of Otago Press } |
| CALLING THE FISH & OTHER STORIES [David Lyndon Brown] Good, accessible, memorable urban stories. Some stories have the same characters, so that they act as a series of snapshots. The author has been widely published and included in many collections of gay writing. { 182pp, 155x230mm, January 2001; PB, £13.99, 1877276103:9781877276101 , University of Otago Press } |
| CASTLES OF GOLD : A History of New Zealand's West Coast Irish [Lyndon Fraser] From the 1860s, the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island was the scene of two major goldfields, attracting hopefuls from all over the world. Suddenly, where there had been native bush and wide rivers, towns with 400 pubs and accommodation houses had appeared. Amongst the hopefuls were Irish miners, many of whom stayed on after the goldrushes as part of a community with its own distinctive character. This is the first academic study on the history of those Irish - where they came from, who they were, how many women came and what they did, how people sustained their family connections, what they believed -- in the context of the history of the larger Irish diaspora. The author draws on private letters and oral histories as well as more conventional sources, and includes many individual migration and settlement stories. { 204pp, 150x230mm, June 2007; PB, £16.99, 1877372447:9781877372445 , University of Otago Press } |
| CATLINS : and the Southern Scenic Route [Neville Peat] One an unknown, out-of-the-way corner of the south-east of the South Island, New Zealand the Catlins is now gaining the recognition it deserves as a beautiful, relatively unspoiled area with many natural attractions, including that rare thing on the east coast, native forest. Leading natural history writer Neville Peat has written a concise guide to the flora, fauna, geology and natural attractions of the area, which include penguins, seals, bush walks, caves and waterfalls, and the petrified forest at Curio Bay. { 63pp, 170x240mm, January 1998; PB, £13.99, 1877133426:9781877133428 , University of Otago Press } |
| CLASS & OCCUPATION : The New Zealand Reality [Erik Olssen & Maureen Hickey] Miner, servant, farmer, doctor -- the occupation made the man. The first substantial way of British immigrants into New Zealand brought this way of thinking and subsequent waves strengthened it. The New Zealand Census reflected the attitude by introducing an occupational census, ignoring many features of the colonial workforce and following its British counterpart. The book is the first systematic attempt to identify New Zealand's actual occupational structure from 1893 to 1938, using the information gather by the concensus. The six essays consider how best to construct an occupational structure for both the whole county and for regions and localities within it. Identification of changes in occupational structure occurring across the period casts light on social change in New Zealand and, significantly, women's participation in the paid non-agricultural workforce. { 318pp, 155x230mm, November 2005; PB, £16.99, 187737203X:9781877372032 , University of Otago Press } |
| CLASS, GENDER & THE VOTE : Historical Perspectives from New Zealand [Miles Fairburn & Erik Olssen] With the rise of the study of social history in the second half of the twentieth century, the focus of many historians shifted from politics, high culture and foreign policy to new areas, including health, demographics, families, crime, women and immigration. But with this new historical work came a problem that threatened coherence in the field: how to deal with the detail of so many different pasts amongst the people of New Zealand? The editors of this book set out to show that a quantitative approach to history can help to rectify this problem. { 288pp, 150x230mm, November 2005; PB, £16.99, 1877372021:9781877372025 , University of Otago Press } |
| COLLECTED POEMS [Ruth Dallas] A compilation by one of New Zealand's most distinguished poets. Dallas was born in 1919 in Invercargill. Her concerns include the landscape and its effects on people, and Chinese and Buddhist thought. Includes the previously published 'Country Road' (1953), 'Day Book' (1966), 'Shadow Show' (1968), 'Walking on the Snow' (1976), 'Steps of the Sun' (1979) and 15 recent poems. { 203pp, 140x215mm, January 2000; PB, £14.99, 1877133868:9781877133862 , University of Otago Press } |
| COLONIAL DISCOURSES : Niupepa Maori, 1855-1863 [Lachy Paterson] This book illuminates the whole colonial discourse between Maori and Pakeha as it appeared in the Maori-language newspapers during a critical period in New Zealand history. In 1855, the Maori world was changing. Many Maori took part in the market economy, most had become Christian, many could read and write, some had sold land to the settler government. The government expected these trends to continue. Ultimately, Maori and European would become the iwi kotahi -- one people. The government disseminated this message to Maori in its newspaper 'Te Karere Maori'. There were other newspapers, most importantly the rival Maori government the Kingitanga's Te Hokioi. And while these newspapers were used for propaganda, they provided a forum, with many Maori and some Pakeha debating the issues of the day. { 252pp, 155x235mm, August 2006; PB, £15.99, 1877372269:9781877372261 , University of Otago Press } |
| COMMON GROUND : Heritage & Public Places in New Zealand [Alexander Trapeznik (ed)] Attempts to make sense of New Zealand's obsession with the past, offering a detailed guide to historical and cultural heritage management. Gives a brief history of New Zealand's heritage movement, from 1890-2000, and discusses heritage terminology and conservation planning, heritage legislation, and the changing uses of historic places. Of interest to those dealing with New Zealand heritage issues, including public historians, conservation architects, conservators, archaeologists, and museum workers. { 169pp, 155x230mm, January 2000; PB, £15.99, 1877133914:9781877133916 , University of Otago Press } |
| COMMUNITIES OF WOMEN : Historical Perspectives [Barbara Brookes & Dorothy Page (eds)] Scholars in various branches of the humanities convened in July 2000, presumably at the University of Otago, to celebrate the work of New Zealand historian Page, and there presented early drafts of the eleven essays presented here. Among their topics are the communities of 13th- century holy woman Ida of Nivelles, ladies' benevolence in the New Zealand setting, and women factory inspectors in Britain from 1893 to 1921. { 229pp, 155x230mm, January 2001; PB, £15.99, 1877276316:9781877276316 , University of Otago Press } |
| CONTINUITY AMID CHAOS : Health Care Management & Delivery in New Zealand [Robin Gauld (ed)] Robin Gauld brings together health-care practitioners from the New Zealand health sector in order to provide a ground floor view of how the island nation's health care is managed and delivered. The material primarily consists of case studies of institutions and programs with which the authors have firsthand experience. The studies address topics such as the management of information systems, the use waiting lists, the impact of hospital restructuring on nursing, and managing a rural community health trust. A few of the papers are broader in scope, offering overviews of particular health sectors or critiquing existing policy assumptions. { 303pp, 155x230mm, July 2003; PB, £16.99, 1877276510:9781877276514 , University of Otago Press } |
| COOK'S SITES : Revisiting History [Mark Adams & Nicholas Thomas] Photographer Mark Adams and writer Nicholas Thomas revisit the sites of contact between Cook's crews in Dusky Sound and Queen Charlotte Sound, as well as places in Europe where botanical specimens, indigenous artefacts, and the voyagers' documents ended up. They examine the traces of the past, opening up ambiguities and avoiding easy judgements about these early meetings. The volume is extensively illustrated with black-and-white photographs. { 196pp, 235x295mm, January 1999; PB, £27.50, 1877133825:9781877133824 , University of Otago Press } |
| CURVED HORIZON : An Autobiography [Ruth Dallas] At a time when Brasch, Fairburn, Glover and others spoke bitterly of the lack of sup-port given to New Zealand artists, how did a single woman from Southland live and work as a writer, establishing herself as a poet and author of international regard? In "Curved Horizon" Dallas recounts her remarkable life with the insight and assurance we expect from this most accom-plished poet. { 182pp, 150x210mm, January 1991; PB, £12.99, 0908569548:9780908569540 , University of Otago Press } |
| DANGEROUS ENTHUSIASMS : E-government, Computer Failure & Information Systems Development [Robin Gauld & Shaun Goldfinch] Information and the technology that supports its collection, communication and analysis is a core concern of modern government, making e-government (meaning electronically enabled government) fundamental to the ongoing 'reinvention' of public administration. But the quest for e-government opens up a range of issues -- whether to take a 'big bang' or an incremental approach to computerisation, how to deal with security and privacy concerns, how to reconfigure the machinery of government to fit ICT practices -- and decisions -- hardware and software procurement, software architecture, access by whom to what. The spending of public money is always intriguing and perhaps money spent on ICT has been the most intriguing of all, with some spectacular failures costing millions. This book is written for a general audience and takes a critical look at policies, problems and prospects for e-government in a series of case studies. Why have ICT failures in the public sector occurred and what lessons do they provide for the future? { 160pp, 150x230mm, August 2006; PB, £15.99, 187737234X:9781877372346 , University of Otago Press } |
| DEFENCE OF MADRID : An Eyewitness Account of the Spanish Civil War [Geoffrey Cox] Goodies and baddies take some sorting out in this tale of the siege of Madrid by Franco's right-wing forces supported by the Nazis and the fascist regime of Mussolini (the 'rebels'), against the civilian population and its government representatives, just elected, who happened to be left-wing. Once sorted, Cox's account of the city under attack, in one of the twentieth century's first urban wars, has all too many echoes today. This new edition, with an introduction and selection of historical photographs, as well as samples of Cox's journalism from the front, will confirm its position as one of the classics of twentieth-century reportage. It is being published for the 70th anniversary of the event. { 213pp, 155x230mm, November 2006; PB, £16.99, 1877372382:9781877372384 , University of Otago Press } |
| DESERTER'S ADVENTURES : The Autobiography of Dom Felice Vaggioli [Dom Felice Vaggioli Translated by John Crockett] Written between 1909 and 1911 this autobiography describes Vaggioli's philosophical temperament, his search for justice, his objections to war, and his activities as a missionary in New Zealand. It covers the period of his life between 1879 and 1887. The introduction provides background information, and a few black and white illustrations are featured. { 271pp, 155x230mm, January 2001; PB, £15.99, 1877276111:9781877276118 , University of Otago Press } |
| DETOURS -- A GENERATION ON : A Journey Through Small-Town New Zealand [Neville Peat] Summer, 1981. A young Neville Peat set out from Cape Reinga on his new 10-speed bike 'Blue, aiming to cycle through small-town New Zealand from north to south, all the way to Stewart Island. The week before Easter, he reached his destination. He wrote a book about it, Detours: A journey through small-town New Zealand, which sold lots of copies and was broadcast on radio. Many times in the intervening years, usually on anniversaries of the journey -- ten years, fifteen years, twenty years -- he wished to try a repeat journey, but life held other challenges. Now, as a leading author and in the age of the personal computer and cell phone, a very different world, he has revisited many of the towns and regions, not on a bicycle, but by car. In Detours -- A generation on, he reflects once again on how small-town New Zealand is doing. { 240pp, 155x235mm, June 2007; PB, £15.99, 1877372390:9781877372391 , University of Otago Press } |
| DISPUTED HISTORIES : Imagining New Zealand's Pasts [Tony Ballantyne & Brian Moloughney (eds)] In this volume, leading historians reflect on writing about New Zealand's past. They also test how that past is investigated and framed. Their essays tell us much about New Zealand's many pasts and how historians have imagined them, and indicate particular concerns with what the country is now and the current role of history as a discipine within our nation. They ask questions and venture some answers. The introductory essay by the editors surveys the work of historians since the 1980s, while the final essay is based on an interview with Erik Olssen, whose work has been at the forefront of historical research and methodology in the period. In between, a variety of topics are visited and methodologies applied. Running through the volume are two threads: discussions of the limits of national history and the search for new archives and sites of historical enquiry. { 283pp, 155x230mm, June 2006; PB, £18.50, 1877372161:9781877372162 , University of Otago Press } |
| DIASPORA & THE DIFFICULT ART OF DYING [Sudesh Mishra] Every poem in this collection offers a stepping stone or resting place on what is eventually a diasporic odyssey. Mishra's is a poetry of discontinuities, of sojourning, of not staying put; it traces the lines of an eccentric cartography, moving restlessly from Fiji to Scotland, to Australia, to New Zealand, to Malta, to Italy and back. It is similarly unsettled in its approach to motifs and forms: a sequence of sonnets jostles with a terza rima; free verse stands alongside a sufi parable. There are poems about poetry, colonialism, photography, food, Palestine, the Pacific, and most of all about people. { 80pp, 170x240mm, January 2002; PB, £13.99, 1877276189:9781877276187 , University of Otago Press } |
| 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 } |
| DUNEDIN : History, Heritage & Wildlife [Gavin McLean] Located in a wonderful natural environment and built on nineteenth-century gold. Dunedin was once New Zealand's largest city. Now it is a gracious old lady with a spirit of adventure, beloved by residents and visitors alike. With an insider's eye and an historian's knowledge, Gavin McLean provides a detailed guide to the city and its immediate environment, including trips that can be taken by public transport. { 64pp, 155x230mm, December 2003; PB, £13.99, 1877276618:9781877276613 , University of Otago Press } |
| E-LEARNING : Teaching & Professional Development with the Internet [Kwok-Wing Lai (ed)] This guide for teachers discusses the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in education. Ten contributions from Kwok-Wing Lai and other educators examine such topics as professional development for teachers using ICT, educational resources on the Web, development and evaluation of websites, dealing with inappropriate materials on the Internet, and health and safety issues. { 206pp, 170x240mm, January 2001; PB, £15.99, 1877276030:9781877276033 , University of Otago Press } |
| E-LEARNING COMMUNITIES : Teaching & Learning with the Web [Kwok-Wing Lai (ed)] In Western societies, the growth in use of information and communication technology (ICT) in schools and classrooms -- particularly in Internet connectivity -- has been rapid. In 2002, 82 percent of primary schools in New Zealand and in 2001, 78 percent of secondary schools had Internet connections. The Web is clearly a vital tool for both teachers and students. This book is for people working in education and explores the dynamics of ICT and the issues surrounding its implementation. Contributors examine ICT in the classroom and associated professional development, online professional and educational learning communities, virtual field traps, searching the world wide web, online plagiarism, the role of the ICT co-ordinator, cybersafety, and also explode some common assumptions about the potential of e-learning in schools. { 224pp, 170x240mm, June 2005; PB, £15.99, 1877372013:9781877372018 , University of Otago Press } |
| EDWARD EYRE : Race & Colonial Governance [Julie Evans] Edward Eyre, the mid-nineteenth century explorer, colonial administrator, and later colonial governor, it remembered as the enlightened defender of Aboriginal rights in Australia, and as the reviled 'butcher of Jamaica' in England and the Caribbean. In 1865. Eyre declared martial law in response to an alleged rebellion in Morant Bay, Jamaica, resulting in 439 deaths, over 600 'floggings', and over 1000 homes incinerated. This book explores Eyre's actions through his perceptions of the colonial encounter. It looks at the distinctive colonial cultures in which he lived and works, and the boarder imperial obligations that framed his administrations. Eyre's interventions in Australia and Jamaica reflected a correlation between race, resistance, and repression that characterised British colonialism. Britain's interest in establishing settler colonies is discussed using New Zealand as a case study. Eyre spent six years as Lieutenant-Governor in New Zealand and was responsible for the development of administrative structures and the purchase of Maori lands for settlement. { 195pp, 150x230mm, November 2005; PB, £15.99, 1877372072:9781877372070 , University of Otago Press } |
| ENDURING LEGACY : Charles Brasch, Patron, Poet, Collector [Donald Kerr (ed)] A companion, not a catalogue, to an exhibition of Brasch's (1909-73) collection of manuscripts, photographs, paintings, and books at the University of Otago Library. He was a literary editor best known for founding the New Zealand literary journal “Landfall”. Writers, critics, academics, and librarians celebrate his life and work. Several paintings are reproduced in colour. { 176pp, 170x240mm, November 2003; PB, £15.99, 1877276650:9781877276651 , University of Otago Press } |
| EYEWITNESS : A Memoir of Europe in the 1930s [Geoffrey Cox] Having served as a foreign correspondent for the British newspapers and the Cox witnessed events in Russia, Austria, and Spain. In this memoir he discusses the rise of Hitler, the attack of the Spanish fascists on the anarchists in the Civil War, and the Stalinist agricultural collectivisation. { 288pp, 155x230mm, January 1999; PB, £15.99, 1877133701:9781877133701 , University of Otago Press } |
| FACING THE MUSIC : Charles Baeyertz & the Triad [Joanna Woods] The Triad was founded in 1893 and ran into the late 1920s. For its first twenty-two years it was published in New Zealand, but in 1915 publication was transferred to Sydney where it was re-launched as an Australasian magazine. The magazine offered well-informed coverage of cultural activities in New Zealand, Australia and internationally in a broad mix of critical and original writing. Notoriously outspoken, Baeyertz was feared and respected as a critic. His music criticism was particularly intelligent and rigorous, making no concessions to personality or amateur or professional status. His later co-editor, the self-styled 'decadent' Frank Morton, was equally candid. This is an engaging biography of a fascinating man which also throws new light on a long-neglected period of New Zealand's cultural past. { 247pp, 155x235mm, March 2008; PB, £18.50, 1877372552:9781877372551 , Otago University Press } |
| FEEDING THE DOGS [Kay McKenzie Cooke] With a childhood in rural Southland behind her, Kay McKenzie Cooke blends town and country themes effortlessly. Her poetry expresses a strong relationship with the landscape and a southern sensibility, but she is equally at home writing about lawn bowlers in Queenstown, a family reunion, global warming, or the land. { 80pp, 170x240mm, January 2002; PB, £13.99, 1877276391:9781877276392 , University of Otago Press } |
| FIGUREWORK : The Nude & Life Modelling in New Zealand Art [Sandra Chesterman] This richly illustrated volume examines the significance of the nude in New Zealand art. Chesterman describes how the tradition of life drawing and painting has developed from its introduction by European settlers to the present day. She also discusses changing social attitudes towards the nude and the experience of being a life model. The text is based upon the author's thesis at the University of Auckland. { 146pp, 190x255mm, January 2002; PB, £27.50, 1877276375:9781877276378 , University of Otago Press } |
| FINE PEN : The Chinese View of Katherine Mansfield [Shifen Gong] For almost eighty years, Katherine Mansfield's stories and poems have been popular with Chinese readers and she has had a significant influence on a number of short-story writers. In this book Shifen Gong selects and introduces twenty texts about Mansfield and her work, translated into English for the first time. Together they bring fresh insights to the largely Eurocentric criticism of Mansfield's work, and at the same time provide a commentary on Chinese literary history. The story of the rises and falls in Mansfield's popularity is fascinating, as it shifts with the major social, political and literary trends which have given rise to modern China and its literature. { 174pp, 155x230mm, January 2001; PB, £15.99, 1877276049:9781877276040 , University of Otago Press } |
| FIRE-PENNY [Cilla McQueen] Snapshot reconstructions of life on Scotland's remote Kilda island -- ancestral home of McQueens -- open this tenth collection of poetry from Cilla McQueen. The spare life in the place of birds and sea and weather leads into a new set of poems from the poet's Bluff home, quiet observation on friends and animals, memories and dreams, and weather. Many of the reflective poems are conversational in style; one is written in the form of a play, and another appears at first to be a dictionary definition. The collection closes with a section entitled 'A Widow's Songs', in which the poet mourns her late partner. { 60pp, 140x210mm, November 2005; HB, £14.99, 1877372056:9781877372056 , University of Otago Press } |
| FOLDING BACK THE SHADOWS : A Perspective on Women's Mental Health [Sarah Romans (ed)] The first book of its kind this work brings together current writings on women's mental health in New Zealand by a broad spectrum of people, from researchers, mental health professionals, to women with mental illness. The book covers issues such as, self esteem, eating disorders, violence against women, substance abuse, psychotropic medication, resilience and coping, and gender difference in mental disorder. The chapters are ordered in three sections: general issues, psycho-social determinants of mental health, and clinical issues. { 280pp, 155x230mm, January 1998; PB, £15.99, 1877133493:9781877133497 , University of Otago Press } |
| FOUCAULT PRIMER : Discourse, Power & the Subject [Alec McHoul & Wendy Grace] In such seminal works as 'Madness and Civilisation', 'Discipline and Punish', and 'The History of Sexuality', the late philosopher Michel Foucault explored what our politics, our sexuality, our societal conventions, and our changing notions of truth told us about ourselves. In the process, Foucault garnered a reputation as one of the pre-eminent philosophers of the latter half of the twentieth century, and has served as a primary influence on successive generations of philosophers and cultural critics. With A FOUCAULT PRIMER, Alec McHoul and Wendy Grace bring Foucault's work into focus for the uninitiated. Written in crisp and concise prose. FOUCAULT PRIMER explicates the three central concepts of Foucauldian theory -- discourse, power, and the subject -- and suggests that Foucault has much yet to contribute to contemporary debate. { 140pp, 140x215mm, August 1998; PB, £24.95, 1877133612:9781877133619 , University of Otago Press } |
| FOUR GENERATIONS FROM MAORIDOM : The Memoirs of a South Island Kaumatua & Fisherman [Syd Cormack, as told to Joanna Orwin] Fishing tales abound in this book, as Syd Cormack was a commercial fisherman in Moeraki and Kaikoura for much of his adult life. Even when he moved to Southland to farm, he continued fishing. But there was another side. He describes himself as being 'four generations from Maoridom' because he was descended from an influential Moeraki woman and a European whaler. Yet his father spoke Maori and from him Syd caught the habit of collecting stories of his people, simply because he was interested. Eventually he became a recognised authority and respected kaumatua, widely and frequently consulted on issues of land and genealogy. { 227pp, 155x230mm, January 1997; PB, £14.99, 1877133345:9781877133343 , University of Otago Press } |
| FRANCIS SHURROCK : Shaping New Zealand Sculpture [Mark Stocker] A sketch of the life and work of this "sculptor's sculptor" (1887- 1977), who as a teacher and a practitioner inspired several generations of New Zealand artists but has been neglected by scholars. Mark Stocker traces the development of Shurrock's work from late Victorian-influenced symbolism to stylish, streamlined Art Deco and beyond. With many black-and-white photographs and 13 colour plates showing sculptures and prints by Shurrock as well as the artist at work. Includes a bibliography and catalogue of exhibits, but no subject index. { 112pp, 205x205mm, January 2000; PB, £16.99, 1877133965:9781877133961 , University of Otago Press } |
| GATHERING FOR GOD : George Brown in Oceania [Helen Bethea Gardner] Combining 'the gathering of artefacts with the gathering of souls', George Brown was a key figure in the Christian, and especially the Wesleyan Methodist, history of nineteenth-century Oceania. Using his life as a case study, Helen Bethea Gardner examines the role of Christian missionaries in the Pacific Islands. Brown's career (1860-1908) spanned one of the most tumultuous political periods in the South Pacific, as one by one islands were colonised by imperial nations. He was one of the most politically engaged of all missionaries, encouraging colonial rule in the Pacific by America, Britain, Germany and, eventually, Australia and New Zealand. Originally from the north of England, he worked as a missionary in Samoa from 1860, moving to the Bismarck Archipelago (now Papua New Guinea) in 1875. From the 1880s until his retirement in 1907, he worked in Sydney as the general secretary of the Australasian Methodist Overseas Mission. 'Gathering for God' examines Brown's missionary letters, journals and journalism, exploring how he attracted Pacific Islanders to Christian teachings, analysing his leadership during an armed attack on New Britain villages accused of cannibalism, and looking at his work in the new discipline of anthropology. He was a major collector of artefacts (his collection is now in the Osaka Museum) and photographer of Pacific peoples (his collection is in the Australian Museum). { 204pp, 150x230mm, May 2006; PB, £16.99, 1877372188:9781877372186 , University of Otago Press } |
| GHOST NET [Lynn Davidson] Ana, a young Czech woman, is spending the southern summer in New Zealand. In the aftermath of the break-up of her marriage, she is visiting her father, whom she has not seen since he left Prague when she was a young child. With her is her own small daughter, Ariel. Back in Prague, her mother, brother, best friend Kristina and her estranged husband, Milan, are wondering if they will return. { 166pp, 140x215mm, December 2007; PB, £13.99, 1877276421:9781877276422 , University of Otago Press } |
| GIFT OF STORIES : Discovering How to Deal with Mental Illness [Julie Leibrich (ed)] The life stories in this book are by people who, at some point in their lives, have been diagnosed with a mental illness which they have learned to deal with. They have found the courage to speak publicly about their experience in a world which is still prejudiced against people with mental illness. The book is a source of inspiration for anyone with mental illness and their family and friends, a unique teaching tool for people working in the mental health area, and a way of opening doors on mental illness and letting in some light, for us all. { 192pp, 210x220mm, May 2006; PB, £14.99, 1877133833:9781877133831 , University of Otago Press } |
| GOD & GOVERNMENT : The New Zealand Experience [Rex Ahdar & John Stenhouse (eds)] New Zealand university professors in law, religious studies, history, public policy, and other fields explore the relationship between religion and politics in contemporary New Zealand. Topics include government support of the churches; the question of whether New Zealand is a "Christian state"; and Christian political parties. { 146pp, 155x230mm, January 2000; PB, £15.99, 1877133809:9781877133800 , University of Otago Press } |
| GORSE BLOOMS PALE : Dan Davin's Southland Stories [Janet Wilson (ed)] Dan Davin, Rhodes scholar, for many years Academic Publisher at the Clarendon Press in Oxford, and one of New Zealand's acknowledged masters of the short story, was born in Invercargill in 1914. The Gorse Blooms Pale gathers together twenty-six stories and a selection of poems reflecting his experiences while growing up in an Irish-New Zealand farming family in Southland. Comic, haunting, poetic, profound and lyrical, the stories have a regional flavour quite unlike any other body of work in New Zealand literature. They insightfully capture the character of an idiosyncratic rural community, its post-British social relationships and tribulations, with a flair equal to such other New Zealand writers as Sargeson, Frame, Middleton or Marshall. When The Gorse Blooms Pale is a rare treasure in the landscape of twentieth-century New Zealand literature. { 312pp, 140x210mm, December 2007; HB, £18.50, 1877372420:9781877372421 , University of Otago Press } |
| GOTHIC NZ : The Darker Side of Kiwi Culture [Misha Kavka, Jennifer Lawn & Mary Paul (eds)] Contemporary creative writers, intellectuals, photographers, painters and other artists have all contributed to this volume exploring the idea of 'gothic' in New Zealand culture. From Martin Edmond's abandoned houses, to Ian Lochhead's Victorian corrugated iron structures, to Otis Frizzell's tattoos, from Peter Jackson's movie-making to ghost paintings -- there's plenty of it. As the editors suggest, gothic is 'endemic to New Zealand's self-representation'. { 176pp, 170x240mm, October 2006; PB, £17.99, 1877372234:9781877372230 , University of Otago Press } |
| GOVERNORS : New Zealand's Governors & Governors-General [Gavin McLean] Grey, Jervois, Fergusson, Bledisloe -- their names adorn New Zealand buildings, streets, entire towns, even hills and rivers. But little has been written about the occupants of Government House. The Governors tracks the evolution of an office that says much about New Zealand's constitutional journey. In Crown colony days, governors ruled personally; with responsible government came uneasy adjustment and, from the late 1880s, a new breed of aristocratic governors who presided ceremonially. Since 1972, all governors-general have been New Zealand residents, two have been female and more recently the office has acquired a new international dimension. With the job came ceremonial and community roles, which governors performed according to their differing personalities. You will meet the governor who complained about being 'highly paid, well housed and well fed, for performing the functions of a stamp' and another, all monocle, medals and plumed helmet, who spoke Maori. { 424pp, 200x265mm, November 2006; HB, £32.50, 1877372250:9781877372254 , University of Otago Press } |
| HALFWAY TO AFRICA [Bronwyn Tate] In the language of flowers, the iris signifies 'I have a message for you'. As a symbol, was the fleur-de-lys of the royal family of France, known as the Flower of Chivalry, with a sword for its leaves and a lily for its heart. In this beautiful novel Bronwyn Tate weaves these images through the lives of ten very different people and their experiences of giving birth, of loss and rediscovery. { 208pp, 140x210mm, January 2002; PB, £13.99, 187727626X:9781877276262 , University of Otago Press } |
| HEART SUTRA [Caren Wilton] Caren Wilton's characters find themselves in unfamiliar landscapes: sometimes physical -- a Bangkok flat, a youth hostel in Edinburgh, a Wellington massage parlour -- and sometimes personal. Wherever they are, she takes a vivid, compassionate look at human strengths and vulnerabilities, and people's skewed attempts at finding happiness. { 218pp, 140x210mm, September 2003; PB, £13.99, 187727660X:9781877276606 , University of Otago Press } |
| HER SIDE OF THE STORY : Readings of Mander, Mansfield & Hyde [Mary Paul] This book explores contemporary ways of reading some important New Zealand literary works, all produced between 1910 and 1940. Interpretations of these texts have had a significant impact on New Zealanders' ideas of themselves. { 224pp, 155x230mm, January 1999; PB, £15.99, 187713371X:9781877133718 , University of Otago Press } |
| HIAPO : Past & Present in Niuean Barkcloth [John Pule & Nicholas Thomas] Tapa, or barkcloth, is called ‘hiapo’ in the language of Niue island in central Polynesia. Most known pieces of hiapo were produced between 1850 and 1900. They are now dispersed, largely in museum collections, all over the world. The illustrations in this book, most of which are in full colour, bring together hiapo from all over the world. The authors have worked on the project for a decade, visiting museums, collecting information, travelling to Niue, talking to old people there, trying to find out how the paintings were done and who made them. { 160pp, 190x255mm, November 2005; HB, £32.50, 1877372005:9781877372001 , University of Otago 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 } |
| HONG KONG HEALTH SECTOR : Development & Change [Robin Gauld & Derek Gould] Finding that studies of the industry were either very short and narrow, or arguments for a specific policy, Robin Gauld and Derek Gould, retired Assistant Secretary for Health and Welfare in the Hong Kong government merely describe changes in the industry over the past few years. Among the themes are the call for major changes in structure and funding, and the formal recognition of traditional Chinese medicine. The study is co- published by the Chinese University Press of Hong Kong. { 190pp, 155x230mm, February 2003; PB, £15.99, 1877276294:9781877276293 , University of Otago Press } |
| HOW TO DO LOCAL HISTORY -- RESEARCH * WRITE * PUBLISH : A Guide for Historians & Clients [Gavin McLean] Thinking of writing a history? Or commissioning one? Local historians, church and institutional historians, genealogists, thesis-writers, and the people who commission them will welcome 'How To Do Local History'. It is a brief and lively introduction to historical research, writing and publishing by a leading historian. This book explains how to use books and archives, and is full of practical tips on 'reading' the landscape, on oral history and on using illustrations effectively. The last chapter takes historians and their clients through the intricacies of internet and conventional publishing, using case studies of real books to explain terminology, scheduling, design, costing and selling. Although written for a New Zealand audience, readers in other countries will also find it useful. { 96pp, 170x240mm, February 2007; PB, £13.99, 1877372412:9781877372414 , University of Otago Press } |
| HOW TO STUDY LITERATURE IN ENGLISH, 3RD EDITION : A Guide for the Advancing Student [Alistair Fox (ed)] Designed for senior secondary and first-year university students, this book enhances the enjoyment, understanding and appreciation of English. It gives the student basic information on the concepts and methods of literary criticism. Contents include such topics as genre, narrative technique, prosody and the language of poetry. Also provided are chapters on the structure and evolution of the English language, with an elementary grammar, plus chapters on how to present written work and the assessment of essays. { 258pp, 150x210mm, January 1995; PB, £13.50, 0908569904:9780908569908 , University of Otago Press } |
| IN STORMY SEAS : The Post-War New Zealand Economy [Brian Easton] Presents a detailed look at the New Zealand economy in the 20th century, and in particular its course since World War II. This is not just a history but a narrative about a problem, defining, analysing, and contributing to an understanding that will aid in its solutions. Initial chapters examine the ongoing debate about the New Zealand economy, looking at such factors as external impact and internal response, the business cycle and growth, and problems of financing investment. Structural transformation, the farm sector, industry and energy, and the market are all examined in later chapters, with a discussion of the aftermath of Rogernomics and the decade of greed. { 343pp, 180x260mm, January 1997; PB, £15.99, 1877133086:9781877133084 , University of Otago Press } |
| INDIAN SETTLERS : The Story of a New Zealand South Asian Community [Jacqueline Leckie] Indians have been present in New Zealand for over a hundred years, yet few New Zealanders would know their story. Who were these people, where did they come from, and what role have they played in the making of Aotearoa as it is in the twenty-first century? This book seeks to provide some answers. { 204pp, 200x265mm, October 2007; HB, £24.50, 1877372501:9781877372506 , University of Otago Press } |
| INFECTIOUS DISEASES : Colonising the Pacific? [John Miles] Attempts to discover which diseases were present in the Pacific before the arrival of Europeans and which were subsequently introduced, drawing on historical writings, linguistic evidence, reports of past epidemics, and investigations of established indigenous medical treatments. Presents a new theory of the spread of malaria through the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, and discusses the absence of acute infectious diseases and the reasons for very high susceptibility of the islanders to such infections when they were introduced by outsiders. Of interest to those in medicine, particularly epidemiology. An appendix explains the cause of infectious diseases for non-medical readers. { 124pp, 150x210mm, January 1997; PB, £14.99, 1877133264:9781877133268 , University of Otago Press } |
| INTERMEDIATE CHINESE READER [Qiao Zhang] A one year reading course based on twenty-five texts, and associated exercises. Many explore Chinese cultural ways, and will inspire students with an interest in both the Chinese world and the Chinese language. { 204pp, 150x210mm, January 1997; PB, £13.50, 1877133337:9781877133336 , University of Otago Press } |
| INTRODUCTION TO OPHTHALMOLOGY : 3rd Edition [John Parr] This book provides extensive reviews of basic issues in ophthalmology to help the student gain a better understanding of problem areas while stressing the essential techniques of eye examination and clinical elements. The revised text is exceptionally clear and readable. It includes needed information on ophthalmic signs in systemic disorders, while omitting those complexities which only the specialist need know. { 233pp, 185x245mm, January 1989; PB, £32.50, 0908569483:9780908569489 , University of Otago Press } |
| JANET FRAME : Subversive Fictions [Gina Mercer] Mercer's challenging and informed study considers the curious response to Frame's autobiographical works, and includes a comprehensive bibliography. { 294pp, 140x215mm, January 1994; PB, £13.50, 0908569823:9780908569823 , University of Otago Press } |
| JOY OF A MING VASE [Ruth Dallas] As American critic Tom Disch quipped of many vintage poets: 'friends and pets die, the garden takes on a new significance.' There are poems in this collection about Dutch Masters, the remembered voice of a deceased soprano, a waterfall, ancient Chinese artefacts, victims of the World Wars, kites and flowers; but each piece is sensitively imbued not only with the poet's awareness of impending death but also with the incorrigible fragility of life. While Dallas is at home in a number of different modes, her high regard for literary tradition as a form of spiritual realism makes her eminently readable as a disciplined watcher of the seasons. { 60pp, 140x210mm, July 2006; HB, £13.99, 1877372307:9781877372308 , University of Otago Press } |
| KIWI [Neville Peat] Back in 1990, when Neville Peat wrote The Incredible Kiwi, the national bird was in retreat, from habitat loss and the severe impact of predation. It was not well understood, being nocturnal and hidden in the forest. Most Kiwis had never seen their national bird. During the 1990s, saving the kiwi became a popular cause. Community kiwi conservation projects have emerged all over the country, especially in the North Island. And scientific research has led to greater knowledge of the bird's population dynamics and distribution. The kiwi has truly become 'the people's bird'. In this book, the author describes the kiwi from every point of view, from wild bird to national emblem. What is this biological oddity called the kiwi? Exactly how many species of kiwi are there? Where do they live? What do they eat? How are people helping them to survive? Why does this bird have such a major place in the Kiwi nation's life? And he tells the story of the largest popular movement in support of an endangered native species that New Zealand has ever seen. { 176pp, 190x255mm, November 2006; HB, £23.99, 1877372366:9781877372360 , University of Otago Press } |
| LAND GIRLS : In a Man's World, 1939-1946 [Dianne Bardsley] Drawing on interviews with 220 women who served as "land girls" during World War II, Bardsley (a Ph.D. candidate) relates an under-documented chapter in New Zealand's war experience. Like their Rosie the Riveter sisters, these Women's Land Service recruits gained independence, little recognition, and discontent about giving up their farm jobs when the soldiers came home. Well-illustrated with recruiting posters and women engaged in farm labour. { 170pp, 190x260mm, January 2000; PB, £15.99, 1877133949:9781877133947 , University of Otago Press } |
| LANDFALL 209 : 1984 [Justin Paton (ed)] New Zealand's best writers trace the 'shape of the year' -- 1984. An antidote to big, bland generalisations about ‘the eighties', this issue offers idiosyncratic snapshots, detailed histories and bold arguments about a year when, as Murray Edmond puts it in the lead essay, 'an identity crisis, psychological, cultural, social and economic, on a national scale, was fully in evidence'. Edmond draws union politics, radical theatre and the 'Mervyn Thompson affair' into his rich account of 'The Terror and the Pity of 1984'. Tim Borballis wonders what we have overlooked in Orwell's out-of-date, but up-to-the-minute novel, '1984' Tim Wilson, Greg O'Brien, Annie Goldson and Megan Dunn offer vivid thumbnail memoirs of their '84s. And Geoff Heath reveals the ghoulishness behind the era's gloss, in a colour portfolio of new photographs. { 224pp, 165x215mm, March 2006; PB, £14.50, 187727688X:9781877276880 , University of Otago Press } |
| LANDFALL 210 : 'The Mouths of Beasts' -- Spring 2005 [Nick Ascroft (ed)] In "Landfall 210", language humbly falls into line as just another job-lot of animal noises. Poets speak out of the mouths of beasts from Fiona Farrell's eel, through all the monkeys and borzoi and owls of Russia to an MP poet per Richard Reeve. Painter Kushana Bush lays out a domestic bestiary, as John Dolan explains that only in the movie The Big Lebowski has the true squawking, grunting, yauping, verbiage and profanity of human speech been captured for what it is. Guest editor Nick Ascroft goes to the frontlines, interviewing world-renowned linguist John Taylor: is sign language the only recourse? { 198pp, 165x215mm, June 2006; PB, £14.50, 1877276898:9781877276897 , University of Otago Press } |
| LANDFALL 211 : Borderline [Tze Ming Mok (ed)] Savvy Auckland ethnoblogger, fiction-writer, poet, essayist and activist Ming Mok edits this book which rolls in the cultural muddle of present-day Aotearoa New Zealand. It features a diverse range of contemporary writers. Topics include a father's incarceration as an interned enemy alien in Somes Island; a move towards poetry; eating towards cultural authenticity. { 200pp, 215x165mm, May 2006; PB, £14.50, 1877372900:9781877372902 , University of Otago Press } |
| LANDFALL 213 : Russia Issue [Jacob Edmond, Gregory O'Brien, Evgeny Pavlov & Ian Wedde (eds)] "Landfall 213" picks up from an anthology of New Zealand poets published in Russia in 2005. It features contemporary Russian poets in translation and also includes a wide range of NZ writing on contemporary Russian culture: Natasha Templeton, Stephanie de Montalk and Stuart Young on diverse Russian traffics between New Zealand and Russia; Russia-oriented poems by Tusiata Avia, Wystan Curnow, Anna Jackson, Jan Lauwereyns, and Richard von Sturmer; as well as substantial reviews of recent New Zealand books. And there's an art portfolio of work by the Blue Noses Collective, and back page by Daniel Malone. { 214pp, 165x215mm, June 2007; PB, £14.50, 1877372927:9781877372926 , University of Otago Press } |
| LANDFALL 214 : Open House [Jack Ross (ed)] The book includes: a wide range of experimental and new poetry and fiction from across New Zealand, showcasing emerging talent; paintings by Emma Smith and a set of photographs of South Korea by Gabriel White; essays and commentary by Ted Jenner on Malawi, Stephen Turner on Cultural Plagiarism and the New Zealand Dream of home, Bronwyn Lloyd on doppelgänger suicide, Ouyang Yu on The Axis of Exiles; in-depth reviews of new poetry, fiction and cultural commentary from a wide range of publishers, by writers from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives. Poetry by; Raewyn Alexander; Stu Bagby; Sarah Jane Barnett; Robert James Berry; Tony Beyer; Sarah Broom; Amy Brown; Jennifer Compton; Jen Crawford; Brett Cross; Hamish Dewe; Michael Harlow; Tourettes (aka Dominic Hoey); David Howard; Leonard Lambert; Katherine Liddy; Thérèse Lloyd; Olivia Macassey; Mary MacPherson; Sally Ann McIntyre; Andrew Slattery; Elizabeth Smither; Michael Steven; Claire Talbot; Richard Von Sturmer; Ouyang Yu; Kirsten Warner; Keith Westwater. Fiction by: Breton Dukes; Martin Edmond; Scott Hamilton; Kim McBreen; Paul Millar; Tracey Slaughter; Latika Vasil; Essays/Commentary; Ted Jenner; Bronwyn Lloyd; Stephen Turner; Ouyang Yu. Artwork by: Matthew Kelly; Emma Smith; Gabriel White. The Landfall Review by: Sarah Broom; Jen Crawford; Siobhan Harvey; Scott Hamilton; Jack Ross; Richard Reeve; Laurence Simmons; Tracey Slaughter. { 208pp, 165x215mm, November 2007; PB, £14.50, 1877372935:9781877372933 , 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 } |
| LAW OF RESEARCH : A Guide [John Dawson & Nicola Peart (eds)] Responding to a growing need for legal advice for researchers, this book provides a guide to the law of research. It will be useful to anyone working in New Zealand's research community, whether in public sector research organisations, administering research enterprises or working with human research subjects. The editors and most contributors are members of the law faculty at the University of Otago { 32pp, 155x230mm, September 2003; PB, £18.50, 1877276502:9781877276507 , University of Otago Press } |
| LILY'S CUPOLA [Bronwyn Tate] This novel is the story of Lily, an elderly woman reflecting on her life and family in letters to the other side of the world. She writes about her grandson who has come to stay, with grandiose dreams of building a cupola in her garden; about her husband and son, and their mid-life move from England to New Zealand; and about her passion for quilting, which radiates through the pages. And as she explores the past, the reader is drawn into a rich and surprising story. { 214pp, 140x210mm, September 2003; PB, £13.99, 1877276596:9781877276590 , University of Otago Press } |
| LEAVING FOR TOWNSVILLE [Bronwyn Tate] This is a novel in which you will meet some extraordinary characters -- the Moxon sisters, Max Bloody Tapper -- and find at least three layers of story. Outwardly its all quite simple -- Rick has a bit of a mid-life crisis and Hazel carries on coping. But as the two work through their break-up and its fall-out -- Rick in Australia and Hazel in New Zealand -- events at a country swimming-hole one summer long ago begin to haunt them both. { 303pp, 140x210mm, January 1997; PB, £13.99, 1877133159:9781877133152 , University of Otago Press } |
| LIVING SPACE : Towards Sustainable Settlements in New Zealand [Claire Freeman & Michelle Thompson-Fawcett (eds)] Upon their arrival in New Zealand from the UK, the editors noted that the concept of sustainability and its application to the built environment had been relatively underdeveloped in New Zealand's academic environment. By bringing together eleven theoretic and pragmatic contributions from those who have been working on the issue, they hope to jump-start the debate in the island country. Concurrent theories are identified and described; issues of diversity and liveability in settlements are discussed; and a 'synthesis' section attempts to meld both theoretic and practical concerns. { 240pp, 155x230mm, June 2003; PB, £16.99, 1877276456:9781877276453 , University of Otago Press } |
| LIVING TOGETHER : Toward Inclusive Communities [Claire Freeman & Michelle Thompson-Fawcett (eds)] How do we develop inclusive, engaged communities? In this book experts in community planning review some of the challenges, strategies and solutions, using New Zealand case studies. The needs of specific groups -- whether migrant, the young, elderly or indigenous -- and community ties with local and central government are explored. The Treaty of Waitangi, the influence of feminism and the development of online communities are other aspects that are considered. Importantly, the book provides tools for achieving healthy communities, with strategies to empower their members and ensure they are heard. { 272pp, 150x230mm, August 2006; PB, £16.99, 1877372293:9781877372292 , University of Otago Press } |
| LENIN'S LEGACY DOWN UNDER : New Zealand's Cold War [Alexander Trapeznik & Aaron Fox (eds)] Following the work of John Lewis Gaddis, historians have been reassessing the legacy of the Cold War and producing a 'New Cold War History'. Alexander Trapeznik and Aaron Fox (an independent historian based in New Zealand) hope to introduce the 'New Cold War' historiography to the context of New Zealand through the presentation of these ten papers. Beginning with Gaddis' own observations on the overall questions of the project, papers proceed to discuss New Zealand's Cold War defence policy, the relationship of Communist Party of New Zealand with their Australian counterparts and the Comintern, the response of New Zealand's labour movement to international communism, New Zealand-China relations, and Soviet views of New Zealand. { 248pp, 155x230mm, April 2004; PB, £15.99, 1877276901:9781877276903 , University of Otago Press } |
| LIFE OF BRIAN : Masculinities, Sexualities & Health in New Zealand [Heather Worth, Anna Paris & Louisa Allen (eds)] This collection of ten essays grew from a July 2000 conference on "masculinities" held at the University of Auckland, bringing together an international group of academics to share ideas and recent developments in theorising and working within the area of masculinities. The essays examine ways in which the contemporary embodiment of masculinity is experienced, how it has changed from previous generations, the diversity encompassed within the contemporary masculine experience -- including the contradictions, differences, and hopes for the future accompanying this diversity -- and the implications for men's health and sexuality. { 204pp, 155x230mm, January 2002; PB, £15.99, 1877276251:9781877276255 , University of Otago Press } |
| MADE FOR WEATHER : Poems by Kay McKenzie Cooke [Kay McKenzie Cooke] Cooke's theme, like Robin Hyde's, is one of finding 'a home in this world': hers is an authentic poetry of place, with a fidelity to experience comparable to that of other more established poets such as Bernadette Hall or Brian Turner. Poems contain an array of striking images, developed from Cooke's exposure as a child and adolescent to the wind-whipped coastline of Orepuki, now a ghost town on the eastern fringe of Te WaewaeBay, near Fiordland. The passing of seasons features in the background of scenes which are dominated by ostensibly contemporary concerns such as a wild and woolly boyfriend, or collecting Toheroa. The poet has a gift for capturing people in day-to-day, incidental situations. Cooke has forged poetry out of common speech which synthesises unpretentiously the elemental energy at her fingertips. { 60pp, 140x210mm, July 2007; HB, £13.99, 1877372498:9781877372490 , University of Otago Press } |
| MALAYSIAN STOPOVER : A Classroom Resource in Music, Art, English & Social Studies [Rosemarie Patterson, Errol Moore & Henry Johnson (eds)] Book & CD. Ages 9 to 14 years. This resource for students includes a book with curriculum links and CD with original sound recordings. It is the first in a series of stopovers with an Asia-Pacific focus. Due out in 2007 is a 'Chinese Stopover'. This book has been developed in collaboration with Malaysian educators, the material offering a window on life in their country. It is child focussed as well as being accurate with up-to-date information. A range of learning activities are presented including language, writing, music-making, artwork and dance. { 48pp, 210x300mm, August 2008; PB, £26.99, 1877372196:9781877372193 , University of Otago Press } |
| MARILYNN WEBB : Prints & Pastels [Bridie Lonie & Marilynn Webb] Well-known as a printmaker, Webb also creates pastels that evoke wilderness areas in her home of southern New Zealand. Lonie provides a biography of the artist and her development, illustrated with many personal black-and-white photographs, that is followed by 62 of Webb's environmental-and conservation-inspired images, in colour, spanning 1963 to 2003. { 128pp, 235x210mm, December 2003; PB, £27.50, 1877276367:9781877276361 , University of Otago Press } |
| MARKINGS [Cilla McQueen] A collection of new poems and drawings by award winning poet, Cilla McQueen, tracing the lives and voyages of her ancestors, and the living history of her husband's people. The themes include: memory, loss, displacement and dispossession, history, home and family. { 64pp, 190x210mm, January 2000; PB, £13.99, 1877133922:9781877133923 , University of Otago Press } |
| MILLIONAIRE'S SHORTBREAD [Mary-Jane Duffy, Mary Cresswell, Mary Macpherson, Kerry Hines] “Millionaire's Shortbread” is both book and cake. Meeting at a cafe table in downtown Wellington, sustained by their favourite treat and gathering in an illustrator along the way, the poets put together this selection of their work over three years. It seemed inevitable that the book should be named after the cake, and the distinctive voices of the poets become its flavoursome ingredients. { 96pp, February 2003; PB, £13.99, 187727643X:9781877276439 , University of Otago Press } |
| MINISTERS & MEMBERS IN THE NEW ZEALAND PARLIAMENT [G A Wood (ed)] An essential reference for voters or anyone working in politics, journalism, research or education, this book records all the ministers and members of the New Zealand Parliament since 1911. The first section lists ministers, their dates of office and ministerial responsibilities. In the second there is an alphabetical listing of names, dates of service, party affiliation, electorate and whether a minister. MPs currently in office are listed in bold type. { 119pp, 140x205mm, January 1996; PB, £13.99, 1877133000:9781877133008 , University of Otago Press } |
| MONEY MAKES YOU CRAZY : Custom & Change in the Solomon Islands [Ross McDonald] Between 1998 and 2001, Ross McDonald made regular trips to the Solomon Islands to study the impact of globalisation on the indigenous people there. This volume contains five of his essays on how the people in various communities are being affected by their interactions with Western business, culture, and money. { 95pp, 155x230mm, April 2003; PB, £14.99, 1877276448:9781877276446 , University of Otago Press } |
| MORE THAN LAW & ORDER : Policing a Changing Society 1945-92 [Susan Butterworth] Immediately after the Second World War, the New Zealand Police were in a sorry state: short on resources, anticipated in their systems and with too many elderly and infirm staff. The period covered by this book saw major change and modernisation, as they overhauled their management structure repeatedly and often struggled to position themselves within the modern public sector. Such issues lift this history into the wider discussion of government and management in the second half of the twentieth century. There is also much to interest the general reader here -- the 1951 waterfront lockout, the Crewe murders, the police view of the Springbok Tour in 1981, the growing role of women in the force, the development of forensic sciences and communication systems, the emergence of specialist squads, the role of police in Search and Rescue -- and the book often sheds new light on recent history. { 348pp, 160x255mm, November 2005; HB, £32.50, 1877276995:9781877276996 , University of Otago Press } |
| NAME & WORD INDEX TO NGA MAHI A NGA TUPUNA [Ray Harlow] { 230pp, 145x210mm, January 1990; PB, £14.99, 0908569513:9780908569519 , University of Otago Press } |
| NATURAL HISTORY OF SOUTHERN NEW ZEALAND [John Darby, R Ewan Fordyce, Alan Mark, Keith Probert & Colin Townsend (eds)] This beautifully illustrated volume will be of interest to amateur naturalists, but it is of a scientific level appropriate to undergraduate students. Thirteen chapters, each authored or co-authored by specialists, describe a different area or science, including geology, landforms, fossils, climate, biogeography, environmental change since the last glaciation, the human factor, wetlands, the coast, and the open sea. The colour plates are of excellent quality and include maps, diagrams, and photographs, including satellite and aerial photographs. { 386pp, 215x280mm, March 2004; HB, £65.00, 1877133515:9781877133510 , University of Otago Press } |
| NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME : A Cultural History of Domestic Interiors 1814-1914 [Anna Petersen] Featuring photographs, drawings, and paintings, this volume offers a visual history of New Zealand interiors. The homes presented represent the living-spaces of the Maori, of missionaries and settlers, and of the suburban middle-class. Architecture, construction, design, decoration, and use are all discussed. { 160pp, January 2001; PB, £32.50, 1877276146:9781877276149 , University of Otago Press } |
| NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN [Robin Hyde] 'They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.'. The line from the Anzac verse provides the title for this novel, in which Robin Hyde shows the predicament of returned servicemen and women after the First World War. Through the story of Douglas Stark, we see the many ways in which New Zealand was failing their expectations. It was not the 'land fit for heroes' they had fought for, but a changing society moving through the tough times of the twenties and thirties. { 292pp, 150x210mm, January 1995; PB, £13.99, 0908569831:9780908569830 , University of Otago Press } |
| OAMARU : History & Heritage [Gavin McLean] Built on nineteenth-century gold and grain booms, and the birthplace of the frozen meat industry, Oamaru is now a major heritage centre. Nestling around its old port fringes is New Zealand's most intact Victorian architectural landscape. With an insider's eye and an historian's knowledge, Gavin McLean introduces 'the Whitestone City' and takes you on a tour of some of its icons and surprises. { 64pp, 170x240mm, January 2002; PB, £13.99, 1877276340:9781877276347 , University of Otago Press } |
| ON THE LEFT : Essays on Socialism in New Zealand [Pat Moloney & Kerry Taylor (eds)] Scholars of history and political science examine a range of socialist thought and practice in New Zealand since the later 19th century. The Knights of Labour, the Industrial Workers of the World, the police, the Communist Party, the new left, feminism, utopian literature, and a number of individuals are among the topics. { 260pp, 155x230mm, December 2002; PB, £15.99, 1877276197:9781877276194 , University of Otago Press } |
| ONLY ONE ANGEL [Jan Kemp] The poems in this volume are loosely gather around the theme of a personal journey towards an intimate relationship. Widely disparate experiences -- intellectual, artistic, spiritual, sensual -- are brought together with clarity and honesty. { 64pp, 170x240mm, January 2001; PB, £13.99, 1877276170:9781877276170 , University of Otago Press } |
| OPERATION VIETNAM : A New Zealand Surgical First [Michael Shackleton] Retired surgeon Michael Shackleton offers a memoir of his experience leading a New Zealand surgical team to Binh Dinh Province of South Vietnam as part of the 1963 Colombo Plan designed to assist the U.S. involvement in the Southeast Asian nation. He touts the model developed by his surgical team as more successful than that of the Americans and describes the various bureaucratic, political, and organisational challenging the "starting point of one of the most ambitious aid projects undertaken by New Zealand up to that time". { 159pp, 155x230mm, May 2004; PB, £13.99, 187727691X:9781877276910 , University of Otago Press } |
| OUR ISLANDS, OUR SELVES : A History of Conservation in New Zealand [David Young] Beginning his history in antiquity, David Young follows the development of the New Zealand's conservationism from its first inhabitants to its "quarry economy" to its current problems of erosion, flooding, predator proliferation, and the loss of habitat and species. Throughout the volume, Young, the author of several books and essays about history and the environment, emphasises conservation's cultural origins. The text is beautifully illustrated with photographs of exotic flora and fauna, sketches, and portraits of conservation leaders. { 298pp, 195x260mm, October 2004; HB, £32.50, 1877276944:9781877276941 , University of Otago Press } |
| PASIFIKA STYLE : Artists Inside the Museum [Amira Salmond & Rosanna Raymond (eds)] The issue of who owns Pacific artefacts located in European museums and collected by early explorers has been contentious, with strong debate on either side. New ground was broken in 2006 when an exhibition opened in the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology with contemporary Maori and Pacific artists displaying their work next to taonga collected on the voyages of Cook and Vancouver. In developing the exhibition, the curators used the analogy of the waka or Polynesian voyaging canoe -- in this case bringing the people and the sounds back to the Oceanic collections in Cambridge. New Zealand was involved right from the start, as some fifteen artists helped to organise, set up and run the activities during a two-year period. The exhibition was a groundbreaking experiment in the display of Pacific art. This book features a series of essays written by those involved in this innovative exhibition. The essays show how each aspect of the exhibition was developed: from the mechanics of planning and curating to the organisational aspects of artists' visits and workshops. Colourful illustrations of artefacts and artists at work accompany each chapter. The making of "Pasifika Styles" is described from the perspectives of artists, museum professionals and scholars. This book should become a working reference for anyone involved in major exhibitions, particularly those aimed at linking museum collections with contemporary art and artists. The debate about museum collections and ownership is now less two-sided and more collaborative when you see the valuable outcomes of the Pasifika Styles exhibition. This project helped to shift the focus on utterly fixed objects unambiguously owned by individuals, communities and institutions to a more relational understanding of the dynamic links between people and things. Pasifika Styles heralds a new era of collaborative curatorship in ethnographic museums, who can now be seen as repositories keeping ancient art works safe so that future generations can draw inspirations from them. { 146pp, 210x210mm, June 2008; PB, £19.50, 1877372609:9781877372605 , Otago University Press } |
| PAST JUDGEMENT : Social Policy in New Zealand History [Bronwyn Dalley & Margaret Tennant (eds)] New Zealand historians -- many of whom have served as policy-makers and workers in social services, and most of whom are children of the welfare state they investigate -- discuss such aspects of social policy as welfare, the voluntary sector, and the government, the administration of old-age pensions to 1938, and government reporting on Maori aspirations and treaty meanings. { 282pp, 155x230mm, August 2004; PB, £15.99, 187727657X:9781877276576 , University of Otago Press } |
| PAVLOVA STORY : A Slice of New Zealand's Culinary History [Helen Leach] While Australians and New Zealanders have long debated which country invented the pavlova (a large meringue dessert cake said to emulate the lightness of the famous ballerina, Anna Pavlova), the real story of the ballerina's visit to the Antipodes and the emergence of three different pavlovas was neglected. The contributions of a gelatine manufacturer, a Dunedin spinster, and numerous other New Zealand housewives are all revealed in this fascinating contribution to food history. The book shows the evolution of the three pavlova types, that their recipes have never been set in stone, and that creative and innovative cooks have played the most important roles in transforming a fashionable afternoon tea cake into an iconic dessert. { 189pp, 170x240mm, August 2008; PB, £19.50, 1877372579:9781877372575 , Otago University Press } |
| PICKERILL : Pioneer in Plastic Surgery, Dental Education & Dental Research [Harvey Brown] Founding Director of a new Dental School at the age of twenty-eight, only eighteen months after completing his medical and dental studies at the University of Birmingham, was just one of Henry Percy Pickerill's achievements in a highly productive life. His research and writing on dental caries were internationally significant and laid the foundations for the School Dental Service in New Zealand. His work on facial and jaw reconstructions at Sidcup Hospital in England during the First World War established him as one of the pioneers of plastic surgery. Pickerill was the author of three significant dental textbooks and as founding Director led the University of Otago Dental School from 1907 to 1927. He then embarked on independent practice as Australasia's first plastic surgeon, and was known especially for his innovative work in hare lip and cleft palate surgery. What is surprising is that this is the first biography of Henry Percy Pickerill. { 272pp, 155x235mm, June 2007; HB, £27.50, 1877372463:9781877372469 , University of Otago Press } |
| PLAYLUNCH : Five Short New Zealand Plays [Chris Prentice & Lisa Warrington (eds)] The plays in this volume are by established New Zealand writers and were written for lunchtime theatre. They are informal one-act plays, requiring little in the way of stage equipment and props, and are suitable for a wide range of audiences. As with a short story compared to a novel, the condensed form of these plays offers scope to their authors for experiment in scripting and characterisation. Together, they represent a variety of perspectives and performance styles. They are small 'adventures in theatre' for writer, director, performers, audience and readers. { 112pp, 150x210mm, January 1996; PB, £13.99, 1877133019:9781877133015 , University of Otago Press } |
| POLITICS & GOVERNMENT OF NEW ZEALAND : Robust, Innovative & Challenged [G A Wood & Chris Rudd] Aimed at general readers, students, and public sector professionals, this text provides an overview of the structure of New Zealand's government and places it within its historical and social context. The authors begin with a discussion of British colonialism and the Treaty of Waitangi. Other topics include, for example, the formation of the sovereign state, the functions of parliament, the structure of the courts, and the electoral system. { 260pp, 155x230mm, March 2004; PB, £17.50, 1877276464:9781877276460 , University of Otago Press } |
| POLITICS OF INDIGENEITY : Challenging the State in Canada & Aotearoa New Zealand [Roger Maaka & Augie Fleras] Indigenous peoples are increasingly uniting around a commonality of concerns, needs and ambitions. In both New Zealand and Canada, these politics challenge the colonial structures that social and political systems are built upon. Both countries have accomplished much in their management of indigenous issues. New Zealand has begun to right historical wrongs through treaty settlements and to implement bicultural strategies. Canada is experimenting with self-government for aboriginal peoples. Yet there are still many issues to be addresses, with recent statistics showing indigenous peoples in bother these countries struggling to balance functioning in everyday life with preserving their cultures. This book casts light on the constitutional politics in both countries that are redefining the relationship of indigenous peoples to the state. A unique and timely discussion. { 350pp, 155x230mm, November 2005; PB, £24.50, 1877276537:9781877276538 , University of Otago Press } |
| POWER OF PLACE : Landscape in New Zealand Children's Fiction, 1970-1989 [Diane Hebley] An examination of the influence of New Zealand's history and terrain on its children's literature. The author argues that the dangerous characteristics of the New Zealand landscape have provided writers with scope to explore, experiment, and develop a unique and internationally recognised New Zealand voice. { 255pp, 145x210mm, January 1998; PB, £13.50, 1877133477:9781877133473 , University of Otago Press } |
| PRICKLY PAIR : Making Nationalism in Australia & New Zealand [Denis McLean] McLean takes the divergence of the two seemingly similar countries as a case study for investigating the nature of nationalism. He looks at what they have in common, the conflicting attractions of globalism and nationalism, and nationalism in Australia and New Zealand. He has served New Zealand as a member of the foreign service, Secretary of Defense, and Ambassador to the US. { 326pp, 155x230mm, November 2003; PB, £24.50, 1877276472:9781877276477 , University of Otago Press } |
| PSYCHOLOGY & FAMILY LAW : A New Zealand Perspective [M E Pipe & Fred Seymour (eds)] The essays in this book bring together research from the social sciences (psychology in particular) that bears upon the trends contributing to family law policy and practice as it is now in New Zealand. Anyone interested in these areas will find the book useful. It will be especially valuable for judges hearing and deciding cases, for counsel representing children, and for those formulating government policy. { 176pp, 155x230mm, January 1998; PB, £15.99, 1877133221:9781877133220 , University of Otago Press } |
| QUEENSTOWN : New Zealand's Adventure Capital [Neville Peat] Queenstown is unlike anywhere else in New Zealand. It is the country's tourism mecca, for lots of good reasons -- mountains, rivers, lakes, climate, snow sports, tramping, fishing, bungy jumping, white-water rafting. Neville Peat provides a holiday guide to the region, with descriptions of its highlights and suggestions for drives and walks -- from easy to tough. { 63pp, 170x240mm, October 2004; PB, £13.99, |