Auckland University Press imprint: 301 books
Compulsory Arbitration in New Zealand
The First Forty Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
This book traces the history of one of New Zealand's most famous laws, the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act of 1894. Holt explains how the law was enacted and how it was transformed by judges over the next forty years into something which had not been envisaged by W. P. Reeves and his fellow...
A Carved Cloak for Tahu
A History of Ngai Tahu Matawhaiti
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Oral histories, legends, and accounts of contemporary life of a New Zealand Maori tribe are presented in this cultural that includes colonial histories of the Native Land Court and traditional histories from the Northern Hawke's Bay.
by Aidan Macfarlane, Ann McPherson
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Ever felt you need to turn to a whole team of advisers for help in bringing up your wayward children? From psychiatrists to cooks, from laundry maids to substance abuse counsellors? Then this book, an easy-to-read guide to teenagers—and how to live happily with them—is aimed at you. By interviewing...
by Anne French
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
The poems in this sixth collection from a celebrated poet explore the nature of the unknown and the uncultivated, from the oceans and the bush to the emotional realities of the distant past and powerful passion. Travel anecdotes from England link these Antipodean landscapes to family stories and describe...
Maori Television
The First Ten Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Established in 2004, Maori Television has had a major impact on the New Zealand broadcasting landscape. But over the past year or so, the politics of Maori Television have been brought to the foreground of public consciousness, with other media outlets tracking Maori Television's search for a new...
by Fiona Farrell
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
A mix of poetry and prose, this compilation by New Zealand’s Fiona Ferrell is simultaneously a memoir, a meandering travel book, and a poetry collection. Demonstrating how a natural disaster can turn a life upside down in an instant, this book consists of four essays about walking, interrupted by...
Te Iwi Maori
Population Past, Present and Projected
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Te Iwi Maori presents an engrossing survey of the history of the Māori population from the earliest times to the present, concentrating particularly on the demographic impact of European colonisation. It also considers present and future population trends, many of which have major implications for...
The Ideal Society and Its Enemies
The Foundations of Modern New Zealand Society, 18501900
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1989
In this challenging and provocative study of the nature of settler society in 19th-century New Zealand, Fairburn focuses on the lives of the common people and presents a rigorous and original description of the place and time which is radically different from those of previous historians. An important...
The Road to Hell
State Violence against Children in Postwar New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016
From the 1950s to the 1980s, the New Zealand government took more than 100,000 children from experiences of strife, neglect, poverty or family violence and placed them under state care in residential facilities. In homes like Epuni and Kingslea, Kohitere and Allendale, the state took over as parent....
Coal, Class & Community
The United Mineworkers of New Zealand, 18801960
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1999
Geographically isolated and long regarded as the "quintessential" proletarians, industrial bogeymen and revolutionaries, coal miners occupy an important place in the history of industrial radicalism in New Zealand. Looking behind the stereotypes, this study tells a story about New Zealand's...
Art That Moves
The Work of Len Lye
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
A companion to the author's bestselling biography of Len Lye, this compelling volume shifts the focus from Lye's life to his art practice and innovative aesthetic theories about "the art of motion," which continue to be relevant today. Going beyond a general introduction to Lye and his artistic...
Strangers Arrive
Emigrés and the Arts in New Zealand, 1930–1980
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
"None of us had the faintest idea where we were going [but] during 1938–39 . . . the town [Christchurch] was made strangely interesting for anyone like myself, [with the] scattered arrival of ‘the refugees'. All at once there were people among us who were actually from Vienna, or Chemnitz,...
The Pastoral Kitchen
Poems by Anna Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
In this collection, Anna Jackson's poems deal thoughtfully and elegantly with motherhood, family, and the environment. Her ideas often assume unexpected forms, appearing as hens, vending machines, or grass within her poetry. Also addressed in these poems is the fate of today's animals in their restricted...
by Anna Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
"I, Clodia" is the story of Clodia Metelli—poet and lover—and her relations with her far-away paramour Catullus, her husband Metellus Celer, her brother Publius Clodius, and her accuser Cicero. By giving Clodia—the "Lesbia" of Catullus's famous love poetry—her own first-person...