Bibliography for HIST 381: Australia & New Zealand

 

(SU = NDSU Libraries, TI = Tom Isern's collection, TC = Tri-College)

 

Author

Title

Publication

Notes

Links

W

Abbott, G.J.

The Pastoral Age: A Re-Examination

South Melbourne: Macmillan, 1971 

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.

 

ILL

Allen, H.C.

Bush and Backwoods: A Comparison of the Frontier in Australia and the United States

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1959

Strictly a Turnerian work, useful mainly to cite as an example of comparative frontiers.

 

TC

Andrews, E.M.

Anzac Illusion

Melbourne: Cambridge U. Press, 1993 

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.”

 

SU

Arnold, Rollo

The Farthest Promised Land: English Villagers, New Zealand Immigrants of the 1870s

Wellington: Victoria U. Press, 1981

 

 

TI

Arnold, Rollo

New Zealand's Burning: The Settlers' World in the Mid 1880s

Wellington: Victoria U. Press, 1994

 

 

TI

Attwood, Bain

The Making of the Aborigines

North Sydney: Allen & Unwin,

1989

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.

Bain Attwood at Monash University

ILL

Ballara, Angela

Taua: ‘Musket Wars’, ‘land wars’ or tikanga? Warfare in Maori Society in the Early Nineteenth Century

Auckland: Penguin, 2003

 

 

ILL

Barlow, Cleve

Tikanga Whakaaro: Key Concepts in Maori Culture

Auckland: Oxford U. Press, 1991

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.

Maori Words & Concepts

ILL

Barnard, A.

The Australian Wool Market, 1840-1900

Melbourne: Melbourne U.

Press, 1958

The primary focus of this work is on marketing and the

international demand for wool. One chapter deals with wool production.

 

ILL

Bassett, Michael

Coates of Kaipara

Auckland: Auckland U. Press, 1995

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.

 

SU

Bassett, Michael

Sir Joseph Ward: A Political Biography

Auckland: Auckland

U. Press, 1993

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.

 

ILL

Beaglehole, J.C.

The Discovery of New Zealand

London: Oxford U. Press, 1939

 

2d ed., 1961

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.

J.C. Beaglehole Room, Victoria University Library

 

Biographical Sketch of John Cawte Beaglehole

 

Chronology of Beaglehole’s Career

ILL

Beaglehole, J.C.

The Exploration of the Pacific

2d Ed., London: Adam &

Charles Black, 1947

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.

SU

Beaglehole, J.C.

The Life of Captain James Cook

Stanford: Stanford U. Press, 1974

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.

TC

Beaglehole, J.C.

New Zealand: A Short History

London: Allen & Unwin, 1936

 An extended, interpretive essay, valuable for defining the state of national identity as of the time of writing.

ILL

Beaglehole, Tim

A Life of J.C. Beaglehole, New Zealand Scholar

Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2006

Biography of J.C., New Zealand’s great scholar of exploration, by Tim, his son. Includes insights about the development of J.C.’s self-conscious identity as a New Zealander.

 

 

Belich, James

I Shall Not Die: Titokowaru's War, New Zealand, 1868-1869

Wellington: Allen & Unwin NZ Ltd., 1989

 

Reprint, Wellington: Bridget Williams

Books, 1993

 

 

SU 

Belich, James

Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders from Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth Century

Auckland: Penguin Books, 1996

 

Reprint, Honolulu: U. of Hawaii Press, 1996

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.

 

SU

Belich, James

The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict

Auckland: Auckland U. Press, 1986

 

Reprint, Auckland: Penguin Books, 1988

Meticulous and powerful revisionist history of the New Zealand Wars, notable for its reconstruction of Maori strategy and of British-colonial

mythology

The New Zealand Wars

TI

Belich, James

Paradise Reforged: A History of the New Zealanders from the 1880s to the Year 2000

Honolulu: U. of Hawaii Press, 2001

 

 

 

Bell, Claudia

Inventing New Zealand: Everyday Myths of Pakeha Identity

Auckland: Penguin Books, 1996

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.

 

TI

Bell, Claudia, and John Lyall

Putting Our Town on the Map: Local Claims to

Fame in New Zealand

Auckland: HarperCollins NZ, 1995

 

 

 

Bell, Leonard

Colonial Constructs: European Images of Maori, 1840-1914

Auckland: Auckland U. Press, 1992

 

 

SU

Belshaw, Horace, Ed.

New Zealand

Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1947

 

 

SU

Bennett, Bruce, Ed.

The Literature of Western Australia

Perth: U. of Western

Australia Press, 1979

 

 

SU

Bentley, Trevor

Captured by Maori: White Female Captives, Sex and Racism on the Nineteenth-century New Zealand Frontier

Auckland: Penguin, 2004

 

 

ILL

Bioletti, Harry

The Yanks Are Coming: The American Invasion of New Zealand,

1942-1944

Auckland: Random House NZ, 1987

 

 

ILL 

Blackburn, Julia

Daisy Bates in the Desert: A Woman's Life Among the Aborigines

Martin Sacker & Warburg, 1994

 

New York: Pantheon, 1994

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.

 

 

Blainey, Geoffrey

A Game of Our Own: The Origins of Australian Football

Melbourne: Information Australia, 1990

 

Reprint, Melbourne: Black, 2003

 

 

ILL 

Blainey, Geoffrey

A Land Half Won

Rev. Ed.,

Melbourne: Sun Australia, 1995

 

 

SU

Blainey, Geoffrey

Triumph of the Nomads: A History of Aboriginal Australia

Sydney: Macmillan, 1975

 

Woodstock: Overlook Press, 1976

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.

 

TC

Blainey, Geoffrey

The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1968

 

 

SU

Boissery, Beverley

A Deep Sense of Wrong: The Treason, Trials, and

Transportation to New South Wales of the Lower Canadian Rebels after the 1838 Rebellion

Toronto: Dundern Press, 1995

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.

 

TI

Bolton, Geoffrey

A Fine Country to Starve In

Nedlands: U. of Western

Australia Press, 1972

 

New Ed., 1994

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.

 

TI

Bolton, Geoffrey, Ed.

The Oxford History of Australia

5 vols., Melbourne:

Oxford U. Press, 1986-

 

Vol 1, Aboriginal Australia—not yet appeared

 

Vol. 2, 1770-1860, by Jan Kociumbas, 1992

 

 

TC

Bowman, Isaiah

The Pioneer Fringe

New York: American Geographical Society,

Special Publication No. 13, 1931

Work derives from an intercontinental

geographic study of "the pioneer fringe," or frontier settlement, in various countries. Chapter 11 is "The Prospect in Australia." Good as a comparative work; also good for the epigrams it coins.

 

SU

Brady, E.J.

Australia Unlimited

Melbourne: George Robertson, 1918

 

 

 

Bridge, Carl, Ed.

Manning Clark: Essays on His Place in History

Melbourne:

Melbourne U. Press, 1994

A remarkable collection of comment on Clark and his

work, especially his 6-volume History. "Was ever such nonsense written?" writes one critic. Others are more kind; most are ambivalent.

 

SU

Brock, Peggy

Outback Ghettos: Aborigines, Institutionalisation and Survival

New York: Cambridge U. Press, 1993

 

 

ILL

Brooking, Tom

Lands for the People? The Highland Clearances and the Colonisation of New Zealand: A Biography of John McKenzie

Dunedin: U. of Otago Press, 1996

This is a solid biography of the great Liberal land

Reformer—notable in that it considers not only McKenzie's contributions to bursting up the great estates but also his part in acquisition of Maori lands.

 

TI

Broome, Richard

Aboriginal Australians: Black Responses to White Dominance, 1788-1994

2d Ed., St. Leonard's, 1994

 

 

SU

Brown, Nicholas

Governing Prosperity: Social Change and Social Analysis in Australia in the 1950s

New York: Cambridge U. Press, 1995

 

 

 

Brown, Patricia M.

The Merchant Princes of Fremantle: The Rise and Decline of a Colonial Elite, 1870-1900

Nedlands: U. of Western Australia Press, 1996

Despite its focus on the economic elite, or perhaps because of it, the book is an effective exploration of the society and economy of Fremantle, port city for Perth, Western Australia. Also interesting for its eastern orientation;

Fremantle faces the Indian Ocean, considered by the British a “great imperial lake.”

 

SU

Burdon, R.M.

King Dick: A Biography of Richard John Seddon

Christchurch:

Whitcombe & Tombs, 1955

 

 

 

Burns, Patricia

Fatal Success: A History of the New Zealand Company

Auckland: Heinemann Reed, 1989

 

 

ILL 

Burns, Patricia

Te Rauparaha: A New Perspective

Wellington: A.H. & A.W.

Reed, 1980

 

 

 

Buxton, G.L.

The Riverina, 1861-1891: An Australian Regional Study

Melbourne:

Melbourne U. Press, 1967

A history of settlement in the Murray-Murrumbidgee

river region. Emphasis is on the succession of squatters by selectors.

 

 

Cameron, W.J.

New Zealand

Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1965

 

 

SU

Carter, Paul

The Road to Botany Bay: An Exploration of Landscape and History

New York: Knopf, 1988

 

 

ILL 

Chatwin, Bruce

The Songlines

New York: Viking, 1987

A travel narrative that transforms into a commonplace book in midstream. Perhaps a bit self-indulgent, but nevertheless an intriguing encounter with aboriginal belief and geography.

 

SU

Chesterman, John, and Brian Galligan

Citizens Without Rights: Aborigines and Australian Citizenship

New York: Cambridge U. Press, 1997

 

 

TC

Clark, Manning

The Puzzles of Childhood

Ringwood: Viking, 1989

 

Reprint,

Penguin, 1990

The first half of Clark's autobiography, detailing the family

roots and early life of Australia's great nationalist historian.

Manning Clark and the History of Australia

SU

Clark, Manning

The Quest for Grace

Ringwood: Viking Books, 1990

 

Reprint,

Penguin, 1991

The second half of Clark's autobiography, detailing his

education, professional associations, and intellectual growth.

SU

Clark, Manning

A Short History of Australia

Ringwood: Penguin Books, 1963

 

4th Rev. Ed., 1995

Text for the course

 

Clark, C.M.H.

A History of Australia

6 vols., Carlton: Melbourne U. Press,

1962-87

 

SU

Clarke, Marcus

For the Term of His Natural Life

London: Penguin Books, 1970

 

 

TC

Cleary, Jon

The Sundowners

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952

One of the best-loved novels of the Australian bush, featuring a sheep-shearing Irish

family.

 

TC

Condliffe, J.B.

New Zealand in the Making: A Survey of Economic and Social Development

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1930

 

2d Imp. of 2d Ed., 1963

The early standard economic history, highly influential in shaping interpretations of New Zealand development, economic determinist in viewpoint.

Economic Determinism in the History of New Zealand

TC

Conway, Jill Ker

The Road from Coorain

New York: Knopf, 1989

 

Reprint, Vantage, 1990

A splendid memoir of childhood on a station on the plains of New South Wales; adolescence in the suburbs of Sydney; university life at Sydney; and Conway's own intellectual journey, grounded in her Australian experience, but leading her to academic life in America.

 

SU

Cowan, James

Settlers and Pioneers

Wellington: Department of Internal

Affairs, 1940

 

 

TI

Crawford, J.G., et al.

Wartime Agriculture in Australia and New Zealand, 1939-50

Stanford: Stanford U. Press, 1954

 

 

SU

Critchett, Jan

A "Distant Field of Murder": Western District Frontiers,

1834-1848

Carleton: Melbourne U. Press, 1990

 

 

ILL 

Crosby, R.D.

The Musket Wars: A History of Inter-Iwi Conflict, 1806-45

Wellington: Reed, 1999

 

 

ILL

Cullity, Maurice

A History of Dairying in Western Australia

Nedlands: U. of Western Australia Press, 1980

 

 

SU

Cumberland, Kenneth B.

Southwest Pacific: A Geography of Australia, New

Zealand, and Their Pacific Island Neighbors

American Ed., New York: Frederick

A. Praeger, 1968

Excellent regional geography—good maps, solid sections on agriculture.

 

SU

Davidson, B.R.

Australia, Wet or Dry? The Physical and Economic Limits to the Expansion of Irrigation

Melbourne: Melbourne U. Press, 1969

Argues that irrigation projects are uneconomical, and that resources should be used for improvement of dryland farming instead.

 

SU

Davidson, B.R.

The Northern Myth: A Study of the Physical and Economic Limits to Agricultural and Pastoral Development in Tropical Australia

Melbourne:

Melbourne U. Press, 1965

A study critical of proposals for the economic development of northern Australia. The work is mainly concerned with the agricultural potential of the area.

 

SU

Davison, Graeme

The Use and Abuse of Australian History

St. Leonards: Allen

& Unwin, 2000

A thoughtful work by a historian who has been engaged with the public application of history—essays treating myth, monument, and heritage. Particularly recommended for students entering public history as a profession.

 

SU

Day, David

Claiming a Continent: A New History of Australia

Sydney: Angus &

Robertson, 1996

 

Reprint, 1999

A new synthesis of national history that places race at the center of national development, beginning with Aboriginal

occupation of the continent and continuing through the abandonment of the White Australia policy and the influx of Asian immigration in the late twentieth century. Besides focusing on racial tensions, the author also develops the

imperative to occupy and populate the continent as a strong theme in national history.

 

TC

Day, David

The Great Betrayal: Britain, Australia and the Onset of the Pacific War, 1939-42

1st American Ed., New York: Norton, 1989

 

 

SU

Denoon, Donald

Settler Capitalism: The Dynamics of Dependent Development in the Southern Hemisphere

New York: Oxford U. Press, 1983

 

Dependency, Development, and Denoon

ILL 

Dixson, Miriam

The Real Matilda: Woman And Identity In Australia, 1788 To The Present

Ringwood: Penguin, 1976

 

4th Ed., Sydney: U. of New South Wales Press, 1999

Dixson writes women into the national identity debate in

Australia.

The Real Matilda

SU

Dominy, Michele

Calling the Station Home: Place and Identity in New Zealand’s High Country

Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 200

 

 

ILL

Duff, Alan

Once Were Warriors

Auckland: Tandem Press, 1990

 

Reprint, 1995

 

 

TC

Dunmore, John

Storms and Dreams: Louis de Bouganville: Soldier, Explorer, Statesman

Auckland: Exisle, 2005

 

 

ILL

Dunsdorfs, Edgars

The Australian Wheat-Growing Industry, 1788-1948

Melbourne: Melbourne U. Press, 1956

An authoritative work for the economic history of wheat raising, especially good for periodization of such history. Little here on cultural, environmental, or technological questions.

 

SU

Dunlap, Thomas R.

Nature and the English Diaspora: Environment and History in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

Cambridge: Cambridge U.

Press, 1999

 

 

SU

Elkin, A.P.

The Australian Aborigines

Angus & Robertson, 1938

 

Natural History Library Ed., Garden City: Doubleday, 1964

 

 

SU

Evans, B.L.

A History of Agricultural Production and Marketing in New Zealand

Palmerston North: Keeling & Mundy Ltd., 1969

 

 

SU

Facey, A.B.

A Fortunate Life

Ringwood: Penguin, 1981

 

 

TC

Fairburn, Miles

The Ideal Society and Its Enemies: The Foundations of Modern New Zealand Society

Auckland: Auckland U. Press, 1989

A startling and revisionist interpretation of New Zealand's settlement. Fairburn argues that the predominant characteristic of settler society was atomisation, that is, the lack of any coherent social organization or sense of community

Ideal Society?

TI

Fingleton, David

Kiri Te Kanawa: A Biography

London: Collins, 1982

 

 

TI

Finkelstein, Dave and Jack London

Greater Nowheres: A Journey Through the Australian Bush

New York: Harper and Row, 1988

A traveler's account of the more remote parts of the continent.

 

 

Fitzgerald, Ross

A History of Queensland: From 1915 to the 1980s

Brisbane:

U. of Queensland Press, 1985

 

 

 

Fitzpatrick, Brian

British Imperialism and Australia, 1783-1833

London:

George Allen and Unwin, 1939

 

 

 

Fitzpatrick, Brian

The British Empire in Australia: An Economic HIstory, 1834-1949

2d Ed., Carlton: Melbourne U. Press, 1941

 

 

TC

Flannery, Tim

The Future Eaters

Reed Books, 1994

 

US Ed., New York: George Braziller, 1995

 

Main Points from The Future Eaters

TC

Frost, Alan

Botany Bay Mirages: Illusions of Australia's Convict Beginnings

Melbourne: Melbourne U. Press, 1994

 

Reprint, 1995

A self-consciously revisionist work that methodically addresses what the author contends are common misconceptions about Australia's history—misconceptions about the motives for colonizing Australia, about the competence of officials managing the transportation and settlement, about aboriginal relations, and other issues.

 

SU

Garden, Donald S.

Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific: An Environmental History

Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2005

 

 

SU

Gardner, W.J.

The Amuri: A County History

Culverson: Amuri County Council,

1956

 

2d Ed., 1983

 

 

TI

Gardner, W.J.

A Pastoral Kingdom Divided: Cheviot, 1889-94

Bridget Williams Books Ltd., 1992

A close (and revisionist) look at the Liberal acquisition and resettlement of the Cheviot estate, a major advance in the movement for closer settlement.

 

TI

Garner, Jean

By His Own Merits: Sir John Hall—Pioneer, Pastoralist and

Premier

Christchurch: Dryden Press, 1995

 

 

ILL

Goodman, David

Gold Seeking: Victoria and California in the 1850s

Leonard's: Allen & Unwin, 1994

 

 

ILL

Grey, Jeffrey

A Military History of Australia

Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press,

1990

 

 

TC

Gunn, Mrs. Aeneas

We of the Never-Never

London: Hutchison, 1907

 

A Classic of the Northern Territory

TI

Guthrie-Smith, H.

Tutira: The Story of a New Zealand Sheep Station

Reprint, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999

 

 

SU

Hatch, Elvin

Respectable Lives: Social Standing in Rural New Zealand

Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1992

 

 

ILL

Hawke, G.R.

The Making of New Zealand: An Economic History

Cambridge U. Press, 1985

The standard economic history.

 

TC

Heathcote, R.L.

Back of Bourke: A Study of Land Appraisal and Settlement in Semi-Arid Australia

Melbourne: Melbourne U. Press, 1965

A historical geography that examines pastoral occupation of the plains of eastern Australia (Queensland and New South Wales). Excellent for appraisal of capacity of the land to support pastoral industries and for periodization of the history of same. Surprisingly, advocates an opportunistic, "exploitive" approach to land use.

 

 

Hirst, John B.

Convict Society and Its Enemies

Sydney, 1983

 

 

 

Horne, Donald

The Lucky Country

Ringwood: Penguin, 1964

 

5th Ed., 1998

This well-known commentary on the Australian national character and prospects is highly critical of the country's leadership; the "lucky country," Horn argues, cannot depend on being lucky forever.

 

 

Hough, Richard

James Cook: A Biography

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1994

 

Paper, 1995

 

 

SU

Howe, K.R.

Race Relations, Australia and New Zealand: A Comparative Survey, 1770s-1970s

Auckland: Longman Paul, 1977

 

Aborigine-Maori Comparisons

TI

Howe, K.R

Singer in a Songless Land: A Life of Edward Tregear, 1846-1931

Auckland: Auckland U. Press, 1991

 

 

 

Hughes, Robert

The Fatal Shore: A History of Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868

New York: Knopf, 1987

 

 

SU

Hulme, Keri

The Bone People

 

 

 

SU

Hutton, Drew, and Libby Connors

A History of the Australian Environment

Movement

New York: Cambridge U. Press, 1999

 

 

SU

Ihimaera, Witi

Bulibasha: King of the Gypsies

Auckland: Penguin Books, 1994

 

 

TI

Irving, Helen

To Constitute a Nation: A Cultural History of Australia's Constitution

New York: Cambridge U. Press, 1997

 

 

 

Jeans, D.N., Ed.

Australia: A Geography

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977

Chapters are topical and authored by specialists. Best chapter is "Climate and Primary Production." See also "Introduction" for history of geographical thought.

 

SU

Kelsey, Jane

Rolling Back the State: Privatisation of Power in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 1993

 

 

 

King, Michael

Being Pakeha Now: Reflections and Recollections of a White Native

Auckland: Penguin, 1999

King, a journalist and historian, a New

Zealander of Irish Catholic ancestry, recounts his upbringing and career (including his work in Maori history) and argues that the descendants of European immigrants, like the descendants of Polynesian immigrants, can become tangata whenua in New Zealand.

 

TI

King, Michael

The Penguin History of New Zealand

Auckland: Penguin, 2003

Immensely popular national history, the most influential such since Sinclair.

Obituary in the New Zealand Herald

TI

Kluger, James R.

Turning on Water with a Shovel: The Career of Elwood Mead

Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico Press, 1992

From 1907 to 1914 Mead, an experienced American irrigation engineer, worked on development of the Murray River basin for the state of Victoria.

 

SU

Kramer, Leonie, Ed.

The Oxford History of Australian Literature

Oxford U. Press, 1981

 

 

SU

Lines, William J.

Taming the Great South Land: A History of the Conquest of Nature in Australia

Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1991

This is a general environmental history of Oz that applies the domination-of-nature interpretation to explaining Australian development. Competent insofar as it goes, but already somewhat dated in approach at the time of publication: says the author, "The environmental history of Australia is essentially a political history. . . ."

 

SU

Lowe, David

Menzies and the “Great world Struggle”: Australia’s Cold War, 1948-1954

Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1999

Menzies was the key figure who interpreted the Cold War and its implications for Australia,” writes Lowe.  This led to “exceptional efforts both to combat Australian communists, and to put the country on a war footing.”

 

SU

McAloon, Jim

Nelson: A Regional History

Whatamango Bay: Cape Catley, 1997

An outstanding regional history.

 

TI

McAloon, Jim

No Idle Rich: The Wealthy in Canterbury and Otago, 1840-1914

Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2002

 

 

TI

McClure, Margaret

The Wonder Country: Making New Zealand Tourism

Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2004

 

 

 

Macdonald, Charlotte

A Woman of Good Character: Single Women as Immigrant Settlers in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand

Wellington: Allen & Unwin, 1990

 

Reprint, Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 1990

 

 

 

McGibbon, Ian

The Path to Gallipoli: Defending New Zealand, 1840-1915

Wellington: GP Publications, 1991

 

 

 

McLaren, Glen

Big Mobs: The Story of Australian Stockmen

South Freemantle:

Freemantle Arts Council Press, 2000

The focus here is on the folkways of pastoralism—how to work cattle, break horses, manage range, and so on—rich in detail. Includes explicit comparison with North American cattle culture.

 

SU

Macnicol, Terri

Beyond the Skippers Road

Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed,

1965

 

Reprint, 1973

 

 

TI

McQuilton, John

The Kelly Outbreak, 1878-1880: The Geographical Dimension of Social Banditry

Melbourne: Melbourne U. Press, 1979

An interpretation of the Ned Kelly gang of Victoria as social bandits, representing the grievances of selectors against squatters and callous government policies.

 

TI

McGrath, Ann

Born in the Cattle: Aborigines in Cattle Country

Sydney: Allen

& Unwin, 1987

 

 

 

Marais, J.S.

The Colonisation of New Zealand

London: Dawsons, 1968

 

 

SU

Marcus, Andrew

Australian Race Relations, 1788-1993

St. Leonards: Allen &

Unwin, 1994

 

 

 

May, Dawn

Aboriginal Labour and the Cattle Industry: Queensland from White Settlement to the Present

Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 1994

 

 

TI

Meinig, D.W.

On the Margins of the Good Earth: The South Australian Wheat Frontier, 1869-1884

Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1962

A work of historical geography focusing on settlement. Good material on pioneer appraisal of the land (including Goyder's Line) and on "domesticating the land" (methods of farming).

 

SU

Moon, Paul

 

Fatal Frontiers: A New History of New Zealand in the Decade

before the Treaty

Auckland: Penguin, 2006

Methodical survey of conditions in the 1830s, prior to planned settlement and the Treaty of Waitangi, arguing that incorporation into the British Empire was not foregone in the fluid situation of Maori politics and Pakeha activities.

 

TI

Moorehead, Alan

Cooper's Creek

New York: Harper & Row, 1963

 

 

SU

Morgan, Sally

My Place

New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1987

An autobiographical family history by a woman of mixed-aboriginal descent, seeking to uncover her aboriginal roots.

 

 

Morton, Harry

Which Way New Zealand?

Dunedin: John McIndoe, 1975

A Canadian-born historical scholar assesses recent trends in education, race relations, economic development, and other main currents of New Zealand society.

 

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Muldoon, R.D.

The Rise and Fall of a Young Turk

Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1974

 

5th Imp., 1974

The blunt autobiography of a National Party leader in mid-career.

 

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Murgatroyd, Sarah

The Dig Tree: A True Story of Bravery, Insanity, and the Race to Discover Australia’s Wild Frontier

Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2002

 

Reprint, New York: Broadway Books, 2002

Compelling retelling of the Burke and Wills expedition of 1860-61, which sought (ineptly and disastrously) to cross the continent from Victoria north to the Gulf of Carpenteria.

Burke and Wills – Terra Incognita

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Murphy, Brian

The Other Australia: Experiences of Migration

Melbourne: Cambridge U. Press, 1993

 

 

 

Nadel, George

Australia's Colonial Culture: Ideas, Men and Institutions in Mid-Nineteenth Century Eastern Australia

Cambridge: Harvard U. Press, 1957

 

 

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Oliver, W.H.

The Story of New Zealand

London: Faber & Faber, 1960

 

 

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Oliver, W.H., and B.R.Williams, Eds.

The Oxford History of New Zealand

York: Oxford U. Press, 1981

 

 

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Oliver, W.H., and Jane M.Thompson

Challenge and Response: A Study of the Development of the Gisborne East Coast Region

Gisborne: East Coast Development

Research Association, 1971

 

 

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Olssen, Erik

Building the New World: Work, Politics and Society in Caversham, 1880s-1920s

Auckland: Auckland U. Press, 1995

 

 

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Orange, Claudia

An Illustrated History of the Treaty of Waitangi

Wellington: Bridget Williams, 2004

 

 

 

Orange, Claudia

The Treaty of Waitangi

Wellington: Bridget Books Ltd., 1987

 

 

 

Park, Geoff

Nga Uruora (The Groves of Life): Ecology and History in a New Zealand Landscape

Wellington: Victoria U. Press, 1995

A blend of history, biology, and memoir that questions the assumptions of conservation in New Zealand and argues for preservation of lowland forests.

 

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Pearson, Kent

Surfing Subcultures of Australia and New Zealand

St. Lucia: U. of Queensland Press, 1979

Believe it or not, this is a scholarly and thoroughly interesting work that compares and contrasts two surfing subcultures—that of the clubbies (life saving clubs) and that of the surfies

(anti-establishment types).

 

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Perry, T.M.

Australia's First Frontier: The Spread of Settlement in New South Wales, 1788-1829

Melbourne: Melbourne U. Press, 1963

 

 

 

Phillips, Jock

A Man's Country? The Image of the Pakeha Male—A History

Auckland: Penguin Books, 1987

 

 

 

Potts, E.Daniel, and Annette Potts

Yanks Down Under, 1941-45

Melbourne: Oxford U. Press, 1985

 

 

 

Powell, Alan

Far Country: A Short History of the Northern Territory

Carlton: Melbourne U. Press, 1982

 

3rd Ed., 1996

 

Alan Powell’s Far Country

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