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.		TI
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.		TI
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	TI
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			SU
Oliver, W.H.	The Story of New Zealand	London: Faber & Faber, 1960			TI
Oliver, W.H., and B.R.Williams, Eds.	The Oxford History of New Zealand	York: Oxford U. Press, 1981			SU
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			TI
Olssen, Erik	Building the New World: Work, Politics and Society in Caversham, 1880s-1920s	Auckland: Auckland U. Press, 1995			SU
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.		TI
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).		SU
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	TC