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Historical Dictionary of New Zealand by Janine Hayward
epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Janine Hayward

PAKEHA Refers to European New Zealanders. Used by Maori originally to refer to “British Europeans,” in a contemporary context, it means a New Zealander of European descent. Opinions are often ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania January 8,2023 )
Mabo--A Symbol of Struggle by Seán Flood
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Seán Flood

Without the joint management plan, Daisy Ward’s hopes to preserve culture are dashed. The loss of Patjarr cultural heritage, along with the death of Mr Ward, is a cruel and ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand January 7,2023 )
Men from Under the Sky by Stanley Brown
epub |eng | | Author:Stanley Brown

7 U.S. Consul's Claim (1840-60) The Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition was to focus American interests on trade possibilities in Fiji. But before the arrival of traders from ...
( Category: Fiji January 7,2023 )
Before Maori by Ross Bodle
epub |eng | | Author:Ross Bodle

All our personal findings, plus positive input, combined with photographs and artifacts, suggest otherwise. It now seems that the road show is purely a propaganda machine designed to mislead the ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand January 7,2023 )
THE NEW ZEALANDERS AT GALLIPOLI--An Account of the New Zealand Forces during the Gallipoli Campaign by Major Fred Waite
epub |eng | 2017-06-14 | Author:Major Fred Waite [Waite, Major Fred]

The Bomb-proof Shelters at Quinn's Post. It was a tremendous work. Because of the pitiless heat and the incessant sniping, the troops watched and waited during the day; but as ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand January 7,2023 )
Prison Hulk to Redemption by Gerard Charles Wilson
epub |eng | | Author:Gerard Charles Wilson

Chapter 12 The Scottish and dissenter connection In April 1838, blacksmith John Burgess and his wife Barbara (nee Malney) packed their portable goods and chattels in preparation for a voyage ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania January 7,2023 )
The Pocketbook of Aussie History by Brendan Gullifer
epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Brendan Gullifer

1. Terra Australis Aborigines … had vital knowledge which Europeans, when they arrived, rarely tried to acquire. —GEOFFREY BLAINEY Popular understandings of the place of Aboriginal history in Australian history ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania January 6,2023 )
This Horrid Practice by Paul Moon
epub |eng | 2010-12-22 | Author:Paul Moon

There is an obvious motif of recurring rage in this macabre culture of warfare and its immediate aftermath. Partaking in cannibalism against an enemy would cause trauma to the relatives ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand January 5,2023 )
Behold the Moon: the European Occupation of the Dunedin District 1770-1848 by Peter Entwisle
epub |eng | 2010-01-15 | Author:Peter Entwisle

European advance around the harbour The arrival of the New Zealand Company party with its surveyors had already expanded the numbers and sites of European occupation around the harbour. On ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand January 5,2023 )
The Birth of Melbourne by Tim Flannery
epub |eng | 2010-05-16 | Author:Tim Flannery

WILLIAM KELLY The Bunghole of a Brandy-butt William Kelly’s two-volume Life in Victoria is a forgotten classic memoir of Australian life. The Irish lawyer and inveterate traveller informs us in ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand January 5,2023 )
The Turtle and the Caduceus by Professor David Brewster AM
epub |eng | 2010-01-11 | Author:Professor David Brewster AM [Brewster, David]

( Category: Fiji January 5,2023 )
Turning Points in Australian History by Martin Crotty
epub |eng | 2011-06-23 | Author:Martin Crotty

11 JANUARY 1961 THE RELEASE OF THE PILL: CONTRACEPTIVE TECHNOLOGY AND THE ‘SEXUAL REVOLUTION’ Frank Bongiorno There is a satisfying chronological convenience about the arrival of the contraceptive pill (‘the ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand January 5,2023 )
To Hell & High Water by Gregory Bryan
epub |eng | | Author:Gregory Bryan

DAY TEN Children in Henry Lawson’s Life Mrs Douglas had a hard time, with her two little girls, who were still better and more prettily dressed than any other children ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania January 5,2023 )
Journeys into the Mystery by Gary Cook
epub |eng | | Author:Gary Cook

The next find was of a crude carved face with deep set eyes. The 18 inch by 24 inch form was contained within an oval carved outer line. Lichen growing ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand January 5,2023 )
Historical Dictionary of Polynesia by Robert D. Craig
epub |eng | 2011-01-15 | Author:Robert D. Craig

– P – PĀ. A New Zealand Māori word used frequently to refer to one’s village or settlement. Traditionally, it referred to a fortified village with its houses (kainga) and ...
( Category: Oceania January 5,2023 )

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