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Exploring The Shadows Of Colonialism: Days Of Darkness Returns In A New Edition
Monday, 4 December 2023, 1:47 pm | Bridget Williams Books
A pivotal work on the history of Aotearoa returns with Hazel Riseborough’s Days of Darkness: Taranaki 1878–1884 , offering a stark examination of the period that saw the invasion of Parihaka and the subsequent stand of Māori communities against ... More >>
New BWB Text On Loneliness And Social Isolation In Aotearoa
Friday, 3 November 2023, 7:03 pm | Bridget Williams Books
Social isolation and loneliness is an increasing global phenomenon. A new BWB Text examines this issue in Aotearoa, against the background of the Covid-19 pandemic. Reconnecting Aotearoa addresses the importance of nurturing and fortifying emotional ... More >>
A History Of Te Tiriti For All New Zealanders By Dame Claudia Orange, One Of Our Most Distinguished Historians
Friday, 27 January 2023, 2:00 pm | Bridget Williams Books
The Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti o Waitangi is a central document in New Zealand history. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2301/23ca63f6ab4f1bb0d93f.jpeg" width="561" height="720"> This meticulously updated new ... More >>
Shifting Grounds Wins The 2022 Ernest Scott Prize
Friday, 20 May 2022, 5:02 pm | Bridget Williams Books
Lucy Mackintosh’s acclaimed book, Shifting Grounds: Deep Histories of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland , was last night jointly awarded the 2022 Ernest Scott Prize for History. The prestigious prize is awarded annually to the most distinguished written ... More >>
Too Much Money: How Wealth Disparities Are Unbalancing Aotearoa New Zealand
Monday, 15 November 2021, 8:08 am | Bridget Williams Books
Max Rashbrooke’s widely anticipated new book shows how wealth disparities are unbalancing Aotearoa New Zealand – and why we should care. Presently, someone in the wealthiest 1 per cent of adults – now a roughly 40,000-strong club – has ... More >>
Voices From The New Zealand Wars | He Reo Nō Ngā Pakanga O Aotearoa
Friday, 5 November 2021, 7:22 am | Bridget Williams Books
The New Zealand Wars profoundly shaped the course and direction of our nation's story. A new book by acclaimed historian Vincent O'Malley takes us into the heart of these conflicts through the voices of the people who lived through them. Drawn ... More >>
A Rare Account Of Class And Conflict In Colonial New Zealand
Friday, 13 August 2021, 1:32 pm | Bridget Williams Books
In the latest book in the acclaimed BWB Texts series , historian Jared Davidson recounts a pivotal struggle in the settlement of Nelson, and sheds light on working-class lives often overlooked in traditional histories. In 1843, the New Zealand Company’s ... More >>
Margaret Wilson’s Activism, Feminism, Politics And Parliament Released
Tuesday, 10 August 2021, 3:10 pm | Bridget Williams Books
This is the story of one of New Zealand’s most eminent political actors. Margaret Wilson has always lived a political life. From her days as a child growing up in the Waikato in a Catholic family attuned to fairness, an unlikely law student in ... More >>
Māui Street' by Morgan Godfery – BWB Texts
Wednesday, 31 October 2018, 2:17 pm | Bridget Williams Books
Everyone lives a messy, unusual life. There is no normal. The sooner our politics understands this, the better off we will all be. More >>
NZ and the Sea – A major new history
Friday, 19 October 2018, 1:00 pm | Bridget Williams Books
New Zealand’s history has been dominated by the presence of the ocean. Until very recently, everyone who came to New Zealand did so after long weeks at sea. Even today, most people live near the coast. The sea provides employment, transport and leisure; ... More >>
Vincent O'Malley talks about New Zealand history
Friday, 14 September 2018, 12:12 pm | Bridget Williams Books
Author Vincent O'Malley is speaking to students in secondary schools around the country about the history of the New Zealand Wars. His speaking tour is organised by Bridget Williams Books , supported by Te Pūtake o te Riri , the fund established to encourage ... More >>
Government for the Public Good
Tuesday, 11 September 2018, 2:35 pm | Bridget Williams Books
The global financial crisis shattered many people’s faith in unregulated markets. However, there has been no corresponding swell in enthusiasm for more active government, partly because its effectiveness has been widely denigrated in recent decades. More >>
New BWB Text on Parihaka by Rachel Buchanan
Thursday, 6 September 2018, 1:10 pm | Bridget Williams Books
New BWB Text on Parihaka by Rachel Buchanan Parihaka was a place and an event that could be lost and found, over and over. It moved into view, then disappeared, just like the mountain. More >>
Truth in a Post-Truth World
Thursday, 9 August 2018, 1:41 pm | Bridget Williams Books
In a digital world consumed by fake news and toxic social media, conspiracy and rumour spread faster than ever and are increasingly hard to debunk. Manipulation of information and the spread of misinformation on online platforms is now widely recognised as ... More >>
An Insider's Account of New Zealand Political Campaigning
Thursday, 2 August 2018, 6:56 pm | Bridget Williams Books
An Insider's Account of New Zealand Political Campaigning: New from BWB Texts While I’ve spent enough time in universities to understand the meaning of various freedoms, I’ve also spent enough time in the world to see the opposite of freedom: persecution, ... More >>
Tuai: A Traveller in Two Worlds wins Ockham Book Award
Wednesday, 16 May 2018, 2:40 pm | Bridget Williams Books
Social Investment: A New Zealand Policy Experiment
Tuesday, 30 January 2018, 11:25 am | Bridget Williams Books
The idea of social investment has obvious intuitive appeal. But is it robust? Is it built on sound philosophical principles and secure analytical foundations? Will it deliver better outcomes? More >>
New BWB Text about reporting on Canterbury Earthquakes
Tuesday, 5 December 2017, 3:46 pm | Bridget Williams Books
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 and causing widespread damage throughout the city. More >>
Island Time: New Zealand's Pacific Futures
Monday, 4 December 2017, 7:13 pm | Bridget Williams Books
The task of living in modern New Zealand – and especially in modern Auckland – is not just to understand how to live with different peoples, but how to adapt to the future that has already happened. More >>
New Book by Martin Edmond - 'The Expatriates'
Thursday, 9 November 2017, 11:37 am | Bridget Williams Books
Martin Edmond ’s deft and illuminating new book, The Expatriates , is a compelling history of four extraordinary New Zealanders. Their inclinations, expertise and circumstances led them to lives and careers in Europe, where for the most part they remained. They ... More >>
