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Abbott, G.J.
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The
Pastoral Age: A Re-Examination
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South Melbourne:
Macmillan, 1971
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1822-51 were “the years of pastoral ascendancy” on which
Abbott focuses. During this time came shift from coarse
to fine wool production; a “rapid increase in sheep numbers;” and a “vast
and spectacular geographic expansion.” Distinctive methods of shepherding
characteristic of this period were succeeded by transition to fenced sheep
runs in the 1850.
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ILL
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Allen, H.C.
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Bush and Backwoods: A Comparison of the
Frontier in Australia
and the United States
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Sydney:
Angus & Robertson, 1959
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Strictly a Turnerian work, useful
mainly to cite as an example of comparative frontiers.
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TC
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Andrews, E.M.
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Anzac
Illusion
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Melbourne: Cambridge U. Press, 1993
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A solid work for interpretation of the Australian experience
in the Great War. Although Andrews debunks much of the Anzac Legend, such
as the fixation on Gallipoli, he situates the war as a signal event in the
disaffection of Australia
from Britain,
leading toward the present, when, “The great dream of imperial unity . . .
has now finally ended.”
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SU
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Arnold, Rollo
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The Farthest Promised Land: English
Villagers, New Zealand
Immigrants of the 1870s
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Wellington:
Victoria U. Press, 1981
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TI
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Arnold, Rollo
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New
Zealand's
Burning: The Settlers' World in the Mid 1880s
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Wellington:
Victoria U. Press, 1994
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TI
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Attwood, Bain
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The Making of the Aborigines
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North Sydney:
Allen & Unwin,
1989
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Attwood is a self-proclaimed revisionist in Aboriginal
history; that is, he strives to move the historical image of Aborigines
away from victim status and toward agency. (He cites Henry Reynolds as
linchpin of this school of writing.) Attwood makes the case that the
construction of “Aborigine” identity was an adaptive response to the
suppression of tribal and familial identities by colonization. The final
chapter, devoted to “the making of this book,” is particularly instructive
as to historiography.
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Bain
Attwood at Monash University
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ILL
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Ballara, Angela
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Taua: ‘Musket Wars’,
‘land wars’ or tikanga? Warfare in Maori Society
in the Early Nineteenth Century
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Auckland: Penguin, 2003
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ILL
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Barlow, Cleve
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Tikanga Whakaaro: Key Concepts in Maori Culture
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Auckland: Oxford U. Press, 1991
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Written in both Maori and English, the book takes a liberal approach
to the meaning of words, dealing with them as concepts in context. If you
accept language as an index to culture, then you’ll find the book a
fascinating read.
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Maori Words
& Concepts
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ILL
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Barnard, A.
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The Australian Wool Market, 1840-1900
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Melbourne: Melbourne U.
Press, 1958
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The primary focus of this work is on marketing and the
international
demand for wool. One chapter deals with wool production.
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ILL
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Bassett, Michael
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Coates of Kaipara
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Auckland: Auckland U. Press, 1995
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This is a sound political biography of a Reform minister and
Prime Minister who, having been defeated in 1928,
returned to serve in the Coalition that ruled New
Zealand during the first half of the Great Depression
and to head New Zealand
armed forces for most of World War II.
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SU
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Bassett, Michael
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Sir Joseph Ward: A Political Biography
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Auckland: Auckland
U. Press, 1993
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Bassett argues that there is more to Ward than just
political longevity (twice prime minister, more than twenty-three years in
cabinet); also that his later career, when he delayed the advent of Labour by helping the Liberal Party hold on, has
obscured his earlier importance; and that Ward imprinted most of the
important Liberal policies of Balance and Seddon.
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ILL
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Beaglehole,
J.C.
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The Discovery of New Zealand
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London: Oxford U. Press, 1939
2d ed., 1961
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A slim book, fascinating for its myth-making efforts in the
cause of New Zealand
identity, and especially for its elevation of Kupe
to hero status. Beagle portrays Kupe as a master
navigator and the Great Fleet as a colonizing venture both to establish an epic
past and also to absolve the English for taking the land.
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J.C.
Beaglehole Room, Victoria University Library
Biographical
Sketch of John Cawte Beaglehole
Chronology
of Beaglehole’s Career
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ILL
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Beaglehole,
J.C.
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The Exploration of the Pacific
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2d Ed., London:
Adam &
Charles Black, 1947
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Beaglehole’s early
work that lays out his theory of exploration (a great-man emphasis that
privileges British exploration) and creates a periodization
of discovery, reflected in his intricate maps.
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SU
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Beaglehole,
J.C.
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The Life of Captain James Cook
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Stanford: Stanford
U. Press, 1974
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This monumental work was Beaglehole’s
finale, left in typescript on his death in 1971. It is classic exploration
narrative of the armchair-historian type. Detailed, deliberative, this
biography of Cook is for those who desire an immersion experience.
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TC
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Beaglehole,
J.C.
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New
Zealand:
A Short History
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London:
Allen & Unwin, 1936
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An extended, interpretive essay, valuable for defining
the state of national identity as of the time of writing.
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ILL
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Belich,
James
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I Shall Not Die: Titokowaru's
War, New Zealand, 1868-1869
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Wellington:
Allen & Unwin NZ Ltd., 1989
Reprint, Wellington:
Bridget Williams
Books, 1993
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Belich,
James
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Making
Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders from Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth
Century
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Auckland:
Penguin Books, 1996
Reprint, Honolulu: U. of Hawaii Press, 1996
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The book is divided into two sections, "Making
Maori" and "Making Pakeha." This
is History that is hard to characterize, but it's darned good—working
methodically through cultural and national mythologies, deliberately
dealing with not only the narratives of the
nation
but also how they have been passed down and used.
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SU
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Belich,
James
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The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian
Interpretation of Racial Conflict
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Auckland: Auckland U. Press, 1986
Reprint, Auckland:
Penguin Books, 1988
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Meticulous and powerful revisionist history of the New
Zealand Wars, notable for its reconstruction of Maori strategy and of British-colonial
mythology
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The
New Zealand Wars
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TI
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Belich,
James
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Paradise Reforged: A History of the New Zealanders from the
1880s to the Year 2000
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Honolulu: U. of Hawaii Press, 2001
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Bell, Claudia
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Inventing New Zealand: Everyday Myths of Pakeha Identity
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Auckland:
Penguin Books, 1996
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A wonderfully readable discussion of the modern New Zealand
identity, by a sociologist with an observant eye. From the nature myth to
hokey-pokey ice cream.
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TI
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Bell,
Claudia, and John Lyall
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Putting Our Town on the Map: Local
Claims to
Fame in New Zealand
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Auckland:
HarperCollins NZ, 1995
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Bell, Leonard
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Colonial Constructs: European Images of
Maori, 1840-1914
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Auckland: Auckland U. Press, 1992
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SU
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Belshaw,
Horace, Ed.
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New Zealand
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Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1947
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SU
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Bennett, Bruce, Ed.
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The Literature of Western Australia
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Perth: U. of Western
Australia
Press, 1979
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SU
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Bentley,
Trevor
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Captured
by Maori: White Female Captives, Sex and Racism on the Nineteenth-century New Zealand
Frontier
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Auckland: Penguin, 2004
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ILL
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Bioletti,
Harry
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The Yanks Are Coming: The American
Invasion of New Zealand,
1942-1944
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Auckland:
Random House NZ, 1987
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ILL
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Blackburn, Julia
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Daisy Bates in the Desert: A Woman's
Life Among the Aborigines
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Martin Sacker & Warburg, 1994
New
York: Pantheon, 1994
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Partly a biography, partly a reflective essay on the life of
the author of The Passing of the Aborigenes.
It turns out Ms. Bates was a fraud (as well as a bigamist, married early to
and never divorced from Breaker Morant), but may
be all the more interesting as an individual (if less respectable as an
ethnologist) for all that.
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Blainey,
Geoffrey
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A Game of Our Own: The Origins of
Australian Football
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Melbourne:
Information Australia,
1990
Reprint, Melbourne:
Black, 2003
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ILL
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Blainey,
Geoffrey
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A Land Half Won
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Rev. Ed.,
Melbourne:
Sun Australia, 1995
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SU
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Blainey,
Geoffrey
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Triumph of the Nomads: A History of
Aboriginal Australia
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Sydney:
Macmillan, 1975
Woodstock: Overlook
Press, 1976
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This was a breakthrough book in the reinterpretation of the
aboriginal experience. Somewhat speculative, Blainey's
attempts to reconstruct aboriginal origins, cultures, and interactions with
environment were important steps in transforming historical Aborigines from
two-dimensional drawings into three-dimensional people.
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TC
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Blainey,
Geoffrey
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The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance
Shaped Australia's
History
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New York: St. Martin's Press, 1968
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SU
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Boissery, Beverley
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A Deep Sense of Wrong: The Treason,
Trials, and
Transportation to New South Wales of the Lower Canadian
Rebels after the 1838 Rebellion
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Toronto: Dundern Press, 1995
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Background to the 1838 rebellion;
good
detail and analysis of the trials of those accused of treason; and
follow-up on the 56 rebels transported to New South Wales.
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TI
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Bolton, Geoffrey
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A Fine Country to Starve In
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Nedlands: U. of Western
Australia
Press, 1972
New Ed., 1994
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A classic account of the background (especially group
settlement and agricultural expansion) to the Great Depression, and the
response of Western Australia
to the depression, leading up to the secession vote in 1933.
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TI
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Bolton,
Geoffrey, Ed.
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The Oxford
History of Australia
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5 vols., Melbourne:
Oxford U. Press, 1986-
Vol
1, Aboriginal Australia—not yet appeared
Vol. 2, 1770-1860, by Jan Kociumbas,
1992
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