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Book Te Puea  A Life

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael King
  • Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
  • Release : 2013-08-01
  • ISBN : 1742539688
  • Pages : 784 pages

Download or read book Te Puea A Life written by Michael King and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Te Puea Herangi, whom Professor John Pocock identified as 'possibly the most influential woman in our political history', wanted an honest biography of her turbulent life. 'I want the truth told and nothing but the truth,' she told a Pakeha journalist. Michael King has written such a book. He did so with the full support of Te Puea's tribe, Tainui, and of her surviving family and protégés. When this book first appeared in 1977 it was hailed as the best book written by or about a New Zealander. The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature said it was so far an advance on anything published previously that it was without precedent. It remains so.

Book King P  tatau

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  • Author : Pei Te Hurinui
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9781869694234
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book King P tatau written by Pei Te Hurinui and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details the background to the Kingitanga and also tells the story of the first king, Potatau Te Wherowhero. It details all the momentous events of Te Wherowhero's life from around 1775 to his death in 1860, including his status as Lord of the Waikato and the famous battles and conflicts with other tribes, his raising up as the First Maori King, and Mana Motuhake, the Maori Kingship, set apart as the symbol of the spiritual and cultural life of the Maori. Pei Te Hurinui's biography of King Potatau tells this story in a Maori voice employing waiata, poetry and whakapapa as well as prose text in English and English translations so that the book is accessible to both Maori language speakers and those with no knowledge of Maori.

Book Ngatokimatawhaorua

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  • Author : Jeff Evans
  • Publisher : Massey University Press
  • Release : 2023-08-10
  • ISBN : 1991016670
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Ngatokimatawhaorua written by Jeff Evans and published by Massey University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-10 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the biography of the mighty ceremonial war canoe Ngatokimatawhaorua that rests on the Treaty Grounds at Waitangi.The inspiration for its construction came from Te Puea Herangi. In the late 1930s the Waikato leader held a dream to build seven waka taua for the 1940 centennial commemorations at Waitangi. By 1937 two waka had been commissioned. Carved in Northland under the guidance of Pita Heperi (Te Tai Tokerau) and Piri Poutapu (Waikato), Ngatokimatawhaorua was one of them. But it was to be many decades before the true power of the waka to inspire a people was realised. In 1974 Ngatokimatawhaorua was refurbished by the late Sir Heke-nuku-mai-nga-iwi &‘ Hec' Busby for relaunching during Waitangi Day ceremonies. It was then that Te Puea' s dream turned into reality. By 1990, The Year of the Waka, 22 canoes and their 2000 crew gathered at Waitangi.Ngatokimatawhaorua and others became symbols of Maori unity and pride and an important part of the renaissance of the traditions of carving and voyaging around Aotearoa and beyond.

Book A Concise History of New Zealand

Download or read book A Concise History of New Zealand written by Philippa Mein Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-06 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Zealand was the last major landmass, other than Antarctica, to be settled by humans. The story of this rugged and dynamic land is beautifully narrated, from its origins in Gondwana some 80 million years ago to the twenty-first century. Philippa Mein Smith highlights the effects of the country's smallness and isolation, from its late settlement by Polynesian voyagers and colonisation by Europeans - and the exchanges that made these people Maori and Pakeha - to the dramatic struggles over land and recent efforts to manage global forces. A Concise History of New Zealand places New Zealand in its global and regional context. It unravels key moments - the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, the Anzac landing at Gallipoli, the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior - showing their role as nation-building myths and connecting them with the less dramatic forces, economic and social, that have shaped contemporary New Zealand.

Book K  i Tahu

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  • Author : Arthur Hugh Carrington
  • Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 187724239X
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book K i Tahu written by Arthur Hugh Carrington and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable account presents oral tradition alongside archaeological evidence and narrative history. The editors both have extensive experience in researching the past of southern New Zealand, particularly Ngai Tahu. Te Maire Tau lectures in history at Canterbury University; Atholl Anderson is Professor of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.

Book Other Renaissances

Download or read book Other Renaissances written by B. Schildgen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-12-11 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Other Renaissances is a collection of twelve essays discussing renaissances outside the Italian and Italian prompted European Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The collection proposes an approach to reframing the Renaissance in which the European Renaissance becomes an imaginative idea, rather than a particular moment in time

Book Raupatu

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  • Author : Richard S. Hill
  • Publisher : Victoria University Press
  • Release : 2010-04-01
  • ISBN : 0864736746
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Raupatu written by Richard S. Hill and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking collection of essays by leading academics and intellectuals, this record examines the confiscation of Maori land in 19th-century New Zealand and the broader imperial context. Based on a 2008 conference entitled Coming to Terms? Raupatu/Confiscation and New Zealand History, this study examines topics associated with land confiscation, such as war, European settlements, colonialism, property rights, and politics. Contributors include Michael Allen, James Belich, Judith Binney, Alex Frame, Bryan Gilling, Mark Hickford, Vincent O'Malley, Dion Tuuta, Alan Ward, and John C. Weaver.

Book Tupuna Awa

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  • Author : Marama Muru-Lanning
  • Publisher : Auckland University Press
  • Release : 2016-09-19
  • ISBN : 1775588629
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Tupuna Awa written by Marama Muru-Lanning and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'We have always owned the water . . . we have never ceded our mana over the river to anyone', King Tuheitia Paki asserted in 2012. Prime Minister John Key disagreed: ‘King Tuheitia's claim that Maori have always owned New Zealand's water is just plain wrong'. So who does own the water in New Zealand – if anyone – and why does it matter? Offering some human context around that fraught question, Tupuna Awa looks at the people and politics of the Waikato River. For iwi and hapu of the lands that border its 425-kilometre length, the Waikato River is an ancestor, a taonga and a source of mauri, lying at the heart of identity and chiefly power. It is also subject to governing oversight by the Crown and intersected by hydro-stations managed by state-owned power companies: a situation rife with complexity and subject to shifting and subtle power dynamics. Marama Muru-Lanning explains how Maori of the region, the Crown and Mighty River Power have talked about the ownership, guardianship and stakeholders of the river. By examining the debates over water in one New Zealand river, over a single recent period, Muru-Lanning provides a powerful lens through which to view modern iwi politics, debates over water ownership, and contests for power between Maori and the state.

Book Other Ways of Knowing

Download or read book Other Ways of Knowing written by John Broomfield and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 1997-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our environment and our civilization are in crisis. But the wisdom to chart a new course is available to us from unexpected sources, including the sacred traditions of our ancestors. From the Polynesian technique of remote viewing to the formative causation theory of Rupert Sheldrake, Other Ways of Knowing examines perceptions and practices that challenge the narrow perspective of the West.

Book Maori and Aboriginal Women in the Public Eye

Download or read book Maori and Aboriginal Women in the Public Eye written by Karen Fox and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From 1950, increasing numbers of Aboriginal and Māori women became nationally or internationally renowned. Few reached the heights of international fame accorded Evonne Goolagong or Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, and few remained household names for any length of time. But their growing numbers and visibility reflected the dramatic social, cultural and political changes taking place in Australia and New Zealand in the second half of the twentieth century. This book is the first in-depth study of media portrayals of well-known Indigenous women in Australia and New Zealand, including Goolagong, Te Kanawa, Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Dame Whina Cooper. The power of the media in shaping the lives of individuals and communities, for good or ill, is widely acknowledged. In these pages, Karen Fox examines an especially fascinating and revealing aspect of the media and its history -- how prominent Māori and Aboriginal women were depicted for the readers of popular media in the past."--Publisher's description.

Book Colonial Encounters in a Time of Global Conflict  1914   1918

Download or read book Colonial Encounters in a Time of Global Conflict 1914 1918 written by Santanu Das and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gathers an international cast of scholars to examine the unprecedented range of colonial encounters during the First World War. More than four million men of color, and an even greater number of white Europeans and Americans, crisscrossed the globe. Others, in occupied areas, behind the warzone or in neutral countries, were nonetheless swept into the maelstrom. From local encounters in New Zealand, Britain and East Africa to army camps and hospitals in France and Mesopotamia, from cafes and clubs in Salonika and London, to anticolonial networks in Germany, the USA and the Dutch East Indies, this volume examines the actions and experiences of a varied company of soldiers, medics, writers, photographers, and revolutionaries to reconceptualize this conflict as a turning point in the history of global encounters. How did people interact across uneven intersections of nationality, race, gender, class, religion and language? How did encounters – direct and mediated, forced and unforced – shape issues from cross-racial intimacy and identity formation to anti-colonial networks, civil rights movements and visions of a post-war future? The twelve chapters delve into spaces and processes of encounter to explore how the conjoined realities of war, race and empire were experienced, recorded and instrumentalized.

Book Nga Iwi O Tainui

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bruce Biggs
  • Publisher : Auckland University Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9781869401191
  • Pages : 424 pages

Download or read book Nga Iwi O Tainui written by Bruce Biggs and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Maori language biographies of Maori who appear in The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography Vol 1.

Book Encyclopedia of Post Colonial Literatures in English

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Post Colonial Literatures in English written by Eugene Benson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 2597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-Colonial Literatures in English, together with English Literature and American Literature, form one of the three major groupings of literature in English, and, as such, are widely studied around the world. Their significance derives from the richness and variety of experience which they reflect. In three volumes, this Encyclopedia documents the history and development of this body of work and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.

Book Lovers and Husbands and What Not

Download or read book Lovers and Husbands and What Not written by Reynold MacPherson and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is this woman? She was born in Leeds, U.K., died in Kaitaia, New Zealand, and appears in both the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography and the Bibliography of Australian Literature... She was raised a Quaker, converted to and campaigned for Islam, had a life-long interest in spiritualism and died a devout Catholic... She made a foundational contribution to socialist feminist journalism in The Maoriland Worker using the principles of Christian socialism and Leninist-Marxism... She was an associate of Pat Lawlor and Robin Hyde, helped lead the New Zealand Movement against War and Fascism before World War Two and then made a significant contribution to the American War Effort in the US during the war... Answer: Margaret L. Macpherson. Lovers and Husbands and What-not is Margaret Macpherson's biography as written by her grandson. Reynold Macpherson was born in the Far North of New Zealand. He trained as a teacher, and has travelled and worked around the world. Dr. Macpherson has taught mathematics, held three chairs as a professor, served as a CEO of a polytechnic institute, a Chancellor and CEO at a university in the Middle East, and helped with post conflict reconstruction in East Timor. Although retired, he serves internationally as a researcher, and is deeply interested in his family history. Dr. Macpherson is a lifelong writer; Lovers and Husbands and What-not is the author's fourteenth book. Publisher's website, which includes a short informational video on this biography: http: //sbpra.com/ReynoldMacpherso

Book The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women s Biography

Download or read book The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women s Biography written by J. Uglow and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-03-08 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography contains details of the lives of over 2100 women from all periods, cultures and walks of life - from queens to TV chefs, engineers to stand up comics, pilots to poisoners. With subsections for further reading, comprehensive subject index and a bibliographical survey, this dictionary of women's biography is an invaluable reference source.

Book Te K  ngitanga

    Book Details:
  • Author : Angela Ballara
  • Publisher : Auckland University Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9781869402020
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book Te K ngitanga written by Angela Ballara and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the mid-1800's Te Kingitanga has been a force in New Zealand society. The Maori King movement combines spiritual and political elements which conserve the "turangawaewae" (standpoints) of the past with practical leadership in the contemporary Maori world. This collection of 14 biographies of leaders has been put together to celebrate the settlement of the Tainui claim and the royal apology given by Queen Elizabeth to the Tainui people in 1995.

Book Alter image

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  • Author : Christina Barton
  • Publisher : City Gallery Wellington
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 124 pages

Download or read book Alter image written by Christina Barton and published by City Gallery Wellington. This book was released on 1993 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: