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

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

 

 

 

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