Creature Comforts - New Zealanders & Their Pets - An Illustrated History by Nancy Swarbrick
$55.00 NZD
Category: NZ Social & Cultural History | Reading Level: Near Fine
New Zealand has one of the highest rates of pet ownership in the world: more than half of all Kiwi households have a cat and nearly a third have a dog, while many have other pets. Yet until now no book has explored how pet keeping came to be such an integral part of the New Zealand way of life. Creature ...Show more
Culture and Identity in New Zealand by David Novitz; Bill Willmott (eds)
$17.50 NZD
Category: NZ Social & Cultural History | Reading Level: very good
Epitaph II by Paul Gittins
$27.50 NZD
Category: NZ Social & Cultural History | Reading Level: good
The second "Epitaph" book, collecting together stories from the second and third TV series of the same name. The book contains 25 historical stories from New Zealand. Many of these stories have been inspired by epitaphs in graveyards, and researchers have uncovered and investigated them.
Every Girl: A Social History of women and the YWCA in Auckland by Sandra Coney
$17.50 NZD
Category: NZ Social & Cultural History
Every Home Should Have One by Terry Moyle
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ Social & Cultural History
New Zealand’s homes were filled with appliances, and behind every refrigerator, television and kitchen appliance there is an interesting story that tells of the growth of consumerism in New Zealand. Do you remember your Grandmother’s lounge (on the brown carpet) a small black and white TV in an ornate w ...Show more
From Behind Closed Doors by Olive Webb
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Social & Cultural History
"A year or so before I had been asked by a senior space scientist why 'someone as clever as me would want to be concerned with the lowest one percent of humanity”’… The answer to this question sums up Olive’s life’s work. From an early age she saw the plight of ‘them’,the people whose disabilities set ...Show more
From Crime to Care: The history of abortion in Aotearoa New Zealand by Felicity Goodyear-Smith
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Social & Cultural History
This book gives a chronological history of abortion in Aotearoa New Zealand from pre-European times to the present. It includes key events including legislative changes, anti-abortion protests, lobbying by various factions, development of funded abortion services for women throughout New Zealand, and re ...Show more
Girls and Women, Men and Boys - Gender in Taradale, 1886-1930 by Caroline Daley
$37.50 NZD
Category: NZ Social & Cultural History
For much of their lives, the people of Taradale, New Zealand, did not live in the so-called separate spheres. They lived in a community which revolved around family life and family ties. Yet within their shared spaces they often had different experiences, be that at home, at school, at work or at leisur ...Show more
Going Bush - New Zealanders and Nature in the Twentieth Century by Kirstie Ross
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Social & Cultural History | Series: Studies in Social & Cultural History | Reading Level: Very Good
What does 'the bush' mean to Pakeha New Zealanders? Is it a particular type of vegetation, a place to tramp, something to save, or a refuge from civilisation? By exploring the meanings that Pakeha found in nature from the 1890s to the 1970s, Kirstie Ross shows that the bush was as much about conservativ ...Show more
Hall of Fame: Life stories of New Zealand women by Olive Baylyn
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Social & Cultural History
Heartland New Zealand's Meeting Places by Robinson, Stephen
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Social & Cultural History | Reading Level: Very Good
At the heart of New Zealand are the many and varied community places where Kiwis have met over the years - to bowl a ball, play a hand of cards, have a drink or to remember those who died for us. Heartland is a pictorial journey around some of the buildings and meeting places where our lives are shared ...Show more