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Book The Many Deaths of Mary Dobie

Download or read book The Many Deaths of Mary Dobie written by David Murray Hastings and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘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 found lying under a flax bush near Opunake on the Taranaki coast with her throat cut so deep her head was almost severed. In the midst of tensions between Maori and Pakeha in 1880, the murder ignited questions: Pakeha feared it was an act of political terrorism in response to the state's determination to take the land of the tribes in the region. Maori thought it would be the cue for the state to use force against them, especially the pacifist settlement at Parihaka. Was it rape or robbery, was the killer Maori or Pakeha? In this book, David Hastings takes us back to that lonely road on the Taranaki coast in nineteenth-century New Zealand to unravels the many deaths of Mary Dobie – the murder, the social tensions in Taranaki, the hunt for the killer and the lessons that Maori and Pakeha learnt about the murder and about themselves.

Book The Forgotten Coast

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Shaw
  • Publisher : Massey University Press
  • Release : 2021-11-11
  • ISBN : 0995146527
  • Pages : 205 pages

Download or read book The Forgotten Coast written by Richard Shaw and published by Massey University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: &‘You approach family stories with caution and care, especially when a thing long forgotten is uncovered in the telling.'In this deft memoir, Richard Shaw unpacks a generations-old family story he was never told: that his ancestors once farmed land in Taranaki which had been confiscated from its owners and sold to his great-grandfather, who had been with the Armed Constabulary when it invaded Parihaka on 5 November 1881.Honest, and intertwined with an examination of Shaw's relationship with his father and of his family's Catholicism, this book's key focus is urgent: how, in a decolonizing world, Pakeha New Zealanders wrestle with, and own, the privilege of their colonial pasts.

Book Odyssey of the Unknown Anzac

Download or read book Odyssey of the Unknown Anzac written by David Hastings and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years after the end of World War I, the Sydney Sun reported that an unknown Anzac still lay in a Sydney psychiatric hospital. ‘This man . . . was found wandering in a London street during the war,’ reported the paper. ‘He said he was an Australian soldier. Beyond his first statement that he was a Digger, he has not given any information about himself.’Thousands of people in Australia and New Zealand responded to this story and an international campaign to find the man’s family followed. The story tapped into deep wells of sorrow and uncertainty which had been covered over by commemorations of Anzac heroism and honourable national sacrifice. More than a quarter of the Anzac dead had no known resting place. Might this be someone’s missing son?David Hastings follows this one unknown Anzac, George McQuay, from rural New Zealand through Gallipoli and the Western Front, through desertions and hospitals, and finally home to New Zealand. By doing so, he takes us deep inside the Great War and the human mind.

Book Births  Deaths and Sponsors  1717 1778

Download or read book Births Deaths and Sponsors 1717 1778 written by John Bennett Boddie and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1958 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albemarle Parish was formed in 1738 and covered the southern portion of Surry County. It became part of Sussex County when that county was created from Surry County in 1753.

Book The Lancet

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1893
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1692 pages

Download or read book The Lancet written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Out of this Furnace

Download or read book Out of this Furnace written by Thomas Bell and published by [Pittsburgh] : University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel begins in the mid-1880s with the naive, blundering career of Djuro Kracha. It tracks his arrival from the old country as he walked from New York to White Haven, his later migration to the steel mills of Braddock, and his eventual downfall through foolish financial speculations and an extramarital affair.

Book In the Absence of Heroes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anthony McCarten
  • Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
  • Release : 2012-02-03
  • ISBN : 1869797248
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book In the Absence of Heroes written by Anthony McCarten and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2012-02-03 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clever, moving novel about the impact of the internet on our relationships. Jim and Renata Delpe's life is in a very modern crisis. With their son, Jeff, sending text messages to his dead brother while slipping quickly into internet addiction, and with Renata engaged in a secret internet relationship with a figure she has never actually met, Jim Delpe - who has long had 'a love-hate relationship' with computers - is left with no choice but to log in himself, if the family is to be saved. In this ambitious, suspenseful and achingly human novel, set against the decline of the nuclear family and the unstoppable rise of digital relationships, In The Absence Of Heroes gives us the complex modern world, full of hard, binary choices: make one or two bad choices in a row and just see what happens . . . This is sequel to Death of a Superhero, now made into a movie, starring Andy Serkis and Thomas Brodie-Sangster.

Book Allen s Indian mail and register of intelligence for British and foreign India

Download or read book Allen s Indian mail and register of intelligence for British and foreign India written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Weekly Notes

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1872
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 768 pages

Download or read book The Weekly Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Southwestern Reporter

Download or read book The Southwestern Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wiarton Echo   Wiarton Canadian

Download or read book Wiarton Echo Wiarton Canadian written by Betty Siegrist and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cornell Alumni News

Download or read book The Cornell Alumni News written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The South Western Reporter

Download or read book The South Western Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas, and Court of Appeals of Kentucky; Aug./Dec. 1886-May/Aug. 1892, Court of Appeals of Texas; Aug. 1892/Feb. 1893-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Civil and Criminal Appeals of Texas; Apr./June 1896-Aug./Nov. 1907, Court of Appeals of Indian Territory; May/June 1927-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Appeals of Missouri and Commission of Appeals of Texas.

Book The Death of Innocents

Download or read book The Death of Innocents written by Helen Prejean and published by Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd. This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sr Helen Prejean has accompanied five men to execution since she began her work in 1982. She believes the last two, Dobie Williams in Louisiana and Joseph O'Dell in Virginia, were innocent, but their juries were blocked from seeing all the evidence and their defence teams were incompetent. 'The readers of this book will be the first "jury" with access to all the evidence the trail juries never saw', she says. The Death of Innocents shows how race, prosecutorial ambition, poverty and publicity determine who dies and who lives. Prejean raises profound constitutional questions about the legality of the death penalty.

Book Over the Mountains of the Sea

Download or read book Over the Mountains of the Sea written by David Hastings and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon more than 80 personal diaries and journals of those on board, this resource explores the rich experience and the trials and tribulations of hopeful Anglo-Celtic pilgrims headed to Australia and New Zealand aboard migrant ships in the late 19th century. From daily routines to matters of food, health, religion, crime, and mutiny, this history unearths the humor, scandal, and personal triumph that defined the nautical pilgrimage of hundreds.