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Madness in the family
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Catharine Coleborne |
"Madness in the Family explores how colonial families coped with insanity through a trans-colonial study of the relationships between families and public colonial hospitals for the insane in New Sout… |
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Telling Stories
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Bain Attwood |
Indigenous histories not only challenge the content of conventional national and colonial histories inasmuch as they tell a different story, but they also challenge the nature of history itself...Rec… |
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The many deaths of Mary Dobie
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David Hastings |
Dreadful murder at Opunake', said the *Taranaki Herald*, 'Shocking outrage', cried the *Evening Post* in Wellington when they learned in November 1880 that a young woman called Mary Dobie had been fo… |
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To fight alongside friends
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Charles Campbell May |
The First World War Diaries of Manchester Pals Captain Charlie May - written and kept in secret and published now for the first time. A born storyteller, Charlie May's vivid eye for detail and warm g… |
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A short history of New Zealand
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Gordon McLauchlan |
An authentic but informal and personal history of New Zealand, written to appeal to visitors, new citizens and students as well as the hundred of kiwis who want easy access to New Zealand history. |
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Women And Children Last
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Charles R. Clark |
"Each year hundreds of ships were lost on rock-bound coasts or in the deep oceans. But of all the ways a ship might meet her end, destruction by fire was perhaps the most feared. The New Zealand-boun… |
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Islands of history
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Marshall David Sahlins |
"Marshall Sahlins centers these essays on islands--Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand--whose histories have intersected with European history. But he is also concerned with the insular thinking in Western sch… |
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Kia Kaha
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John Crawford |
xiv, 330 p. : 24 cm |
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