Williams: 1396 books
Up from Under
Women and Liberation in New Zealand, 19701985
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Christine Dann was an early participant in the women’s movement that swept through New Zealand in the 1970s and 80s. Up from Under is a detailed and fascinating study of the achievements and aspirations of women at that time.Dann chronicles the upheavals and events of that time, examining developments...
New Territory
The Transformation of New Zealand, 198492
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
New Territory is an analysis of the turbulent years of the late 1980s and early 1990s by one of New Zealand's leading political commentators. Colin James looks at the way Labour’s structural reforms shattered the ‘prosperity consensus’ that had gone before, setting the changes of the 1980s in a...
Reclaiming the Future
New Zealand and the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Jane Kelsey’s exploration of the effects of globalisation on the New Zealand economy was eye-opening when published in 1999. She offered a trenchantly expressed response to the neoliberal slogan of the time, ‘There is no alternative.’ Kelsey’s analysis remains a critical yardstick for current...
by Barbara Brookes
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
What would a history of New Zealand look like that rejected Thomas Carlyle’s definition of history as ‘the biography of great men’, and focused instead on the experiences of women? One that shifted the angle of vision and examined the stages of this country’s development from the points of...
In/visible Sight
The Mixed-Descent Families of Southern New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
In/visible Sight is a fascinating exploration of a little-known part of our history: the lives of part-Māori, part-Pākehā New Zealanders in the nineteenth century.Focussing on interracial intimacy between Ngāi Tahu and Pākehā settlers, it explores how intermarriage played a key role in shaping...
by Tracey Barnett, Jane Kelsey, John Pratt
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Dive into some of the big issues facing New Zealand with this bundle of hard-hitting BWB Texts. These four works are combined into one easy-to-read e-book, available direct and DRM-free from our website or from international e-book retailers. Tracey Barnett’s The Quiet War on Asylum addresses a big...
Portacom City
Reporting on the Christchurch and Kaikōura earthquakes
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
The ripples the earthquake sent across the region and down the years continue to affect our lives, our livelihoods and endeavours.
On 4 September 2010, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck 30 kilometres west of Christchurch. Half a year later, a 6.3 aftershock hit Christchurch, killing 185 people...
An Unsettled History
Treaty Claims in New Zealand Today
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
An Unsettled History squarely confronts the issues arising from the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand today. Alan Ward writes lucidly about the Treaty claims process, about settlements made, and those to come.New Zealand’s short history unquestionably reveals a treaty made and then repeatedly breached....
by Paul Callaghan, Maurice Gee, Kathleen Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
A bundle of the first four BWB Texts by Paul Callaghan, Maurice Gee, Kathleen Jones and Rebecca Macfie.A moving selection of Sir Paul Callaghan’s writing, offering eloquent narratives that will endure in this country’s literature. Published on the first anniversary of Sir Paul’s death, with a foreword...
Creeks and Kitchens
A Childhood Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Widely regarded as one of New Zealand’s greatest fiction writers, Maurice Gee has written virtually no non-fiction. The exceptions are the two exquisite childhood reminiscences combined here into a memoir in this BWB Text.In this little known work, Gee describes in fascinating detail his...
The Stolen Island
Searching for 'Ata
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
‘What had happened to the stolen islanders? Had any survived slavery?’
One day in 1863 a strange ship stopped at ‘Ata, a tiny island in the wild seas between Tonga and New Zealand, and sailed away with one hundred and forty-four men, women and children. The ‘Atans were never heard from...
Growing Apart
Regional Prosperity in New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
‘If we rank our regions internationally, Auckland, Wellington and Canterbury are comparable to France, Finland and Saudi Arabia respectively. But the smaller regions look like Timor-Leste (Northland), Greece (Manawatu-Whanganui and Gisborne) or other emerging economies such as Cyprus and the Seychelles.’The...
A Pastoral Kingdom Divided
Cheviot, 18891894
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Cheviot Hills, an 84,000 acre North Canterbury sheep run, was a symbol of vast and impregnable wealth to nineteenth-century New Zealand. But in the 1890s it became the first 'big estate’ acquired by the Liberal Government and broken up into small farms.Jim Gardner, a former Canterbury University historian,...
The First Migration
Māori Origins 3000BC AD1450
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Thousands of years ago migrants from South China began the journey that took their descendants through the Pacific to the southernmost islands of Polynesia. Atholl Anderson’s ground-breaking synthesis of research and tradition charts this epic journey of New Zealand’s first human inhabitants.Taken...