Bibliography of New Zealand history: Difference between revisions

This is a bibliography of New Zealand history.

• Michael King (2003) The Penguin History of New Zealand. Immensely popular, this well-written and comprehensive single volume history is probably the best place to start for those new to New Zealand history.
• James Belich, Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders from the Polynesian settlement to the end of the nineteenth century (1996) and Paradise Reforged: A History of the New Zealanders from 1880 to the Year 2000 (2001). Although Belich’s history of New Zealand appears in two large volumes, it is not heavy going as it is full of anecdote and humour. The two books are the most academically respected histories in decades; they are very comprehensive and include several new and important theories. They are required reading for anyone making a serious study of New Zealand history.
• Ranginui Walker (2004), Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou: Struggle Without End. The only general history written from a Māori perspective; fair, informative and interesting.
• Keith Sinclair, ed., (1996) The Oxford Illustrated History of New Zealand. Shorter than most recent general histories and with lots of good illustrations.
• Keith Sinclair, A History of New Zealand. First published in 1959, this is a classic of New Zealand history. Its updates consist mostly of what has happened since the previous edition, so it is seriously dated. in Questia
• Giselle Byrnes, ed. (2009). The New Oxford History of New Zealand. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-558471-6.
• Smith, Philippa Mein. A Concise History of New Zealand (Cambridge Concise Histories) (2nd ed. 2012) 368pp; a survey by a leading scholar. excerpt and text search

• Beavan, Peter, and John Stacpoole. New Zealand Art and Architecture, 1820-1970 (1973)
• Eggleton, David. Towards Aotearoa: A Short History of 20th Century New Zealand Art (2007)
• Evans, Patrick. The Penguin History of New Zealand Literature (Auckland: Penguin, 1990)
• Feeney, Warren. "The Establishment of the Canterbury Society of Arts: Forming the Taste, Judgement and Identity of a Province, 1850-1880," New Zealand Journal of History (2010) 44#2 pp 174-189. Explores the influence of British art, the links of the CSA to the Royal Academy in London, the role of Enlightenment ideals of liberalism and individualism, how imperial nationmalism influence art and helped form a New Zealand identity, and establishment of the Canterbury College School of Art.
• McCormick, E. H. Letters and art in New Zealand (1940)
• Murray, Stuart. Never a Soul at Home: New Zealand Literary Nationalism and the 1930's (Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1998)
• Pound, Francis. The Invention of New Zealand: Art and National Identity, 1930-1970 (2009)
• Robinson, Roger, and Nelson Wattie, eds. The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998)
• Sturm, Terry, ed. The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English (Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1991)
• Williams, Mark, and Michele Leggott, eds. Opening the Book: New Essays on New Zealand Writing (Auckland University Press, 1995)

• Hawke, Gary R., and Richard W. Baker. Anzus Economics: Economic Trends and Relations among Australia, New Zealand, and the United States (Praeger Publishers, 1992) online
• Hawke, Gary R. The Making of New Zealand: An Economic History (1985) excerpt and text search
• Hunter, Ian and Marie Wilson. "Origins and Opportunity: 150 Years of New Zealand Entrepreneurship," Journal of Management and Organization (2007) 13#4 online
• Lloyd-Prichard, Muriel Florence. An economic history of New Zealand to 1939 (1970)
• McLauchlan, Gordon. The Farming of New Zealand: The People and the Land (2006)
• Riseborough, Hazel. Shear Hard Work: A History of New Zealand Shearing (2009)
• Stewart, William Downie. " Land Tenure and Land Monopoly in New Zealand: I," Journal of Political Economy (1909) 17#2 pp. 82-91, 144-52 in JSTOR

• Brooking, Tom, and Eric Pawson. Seeds of Empire: The Environmental Transformation of New Zealand (2010)
• Brooking, Tom, and Eric Pawson. Environmental Histories of New Zealand (2002)
• Dunlap, Thomas R. Nature and the English Diaspora: Environment and History in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (1999)
• Grey, Alan H. Aotearoa & New Zealand: A Historical Geography (Canterbury University Press 1994) online
• Hamer D.A. "Towns in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand," New Zealand Journal of History (1979) 13#1 pp 5-24.
• McKinnon, Malcolm. Bateman New Zealand historical atlas (1997)

• Belich, James. The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict (1989)
• Buchanan, Paul G. "Lilliputian in Fluid Times: New Zealand Foreign Policy after the Cold War," Political Science Quarterly (2010) 125#2 pp 255-279
• McGibbon, Ian, and Paul Goldstone. The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Military History (2001)
• McKinnon, Malcolm. Independence and Foreign Policy: New Zealand in the World since 1935 (Auckland University Press 1993) online

• Coleman, Peter J. "New Zealand Liberalism and the Origins of the American Welfare State," Journal of American History (1982) 69#2 pp. 372-391 in JSTOR
• Coleman, Peter J. Progressivism and the World of Reform: New Zealand and the Origins of the American Welfare State (1987) online
• Davidson, Alexander. Two Models of Welfare: The Origins and Development of the Welfare State in Sweden and New Zealand, 1888-1988 (1989)
• Fischer, David Hackett. Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States (2012) a search for fairness infuses N.Z. politics, compared to freedom in the U.S. excerpt and text search
• Grimshaw, Patricia. Women's Suffrage in New Zealand (1988), the standard scholarly study
• Grimshaw, Patricia. "Women’s Suffrage in New Zealand Revisited: Writing from the Margins," Caroline Daley, and Melanie Nolan, eds. Suffrage and Beyond: International Feminist Perspectives (New York U.P., 1994) pp 25–41.

• Martin, John E. Holding the Balance. A History of New Zealand's Department of Labour 1891-1995 (1997)
• Nolan, Melanie. "Classic Third Way or Before its Time? The New Zealand Labour Party in Local and Transnational Context," Labour History Review (2010) 75#1 pp 98-113.
• Olssen, Erik. The Red Feds: Revolutionary Industrial Unionism and the New Zealand Federation of Labour 1908-1914 (1988)

• Davidson, Janet M. The Prehistory of New Zealand (1987)
• Hill, Richard S. Maori and the State: Crown-Maori Relations in New Zealand/Aotearoa, 1950-2000 (2010)
• Iho, Taonga Tuku. Encyclopedia of Maori Culture (2002)
• Pool, D. Ian. Maori Population of New Zealand, 1769-1971(1989)
• Williams, Adrian. Politics of the New Zealand Maori: Protest and cooperation, 1891-1909 (1969)

• Fairburn, Miles. The Ideal Society and Its Enemies: The Foundations of Modern New Zealand Society, 1850-1900 (1989)
• Gustafson, Barry, His Way, a biography of Robert Muldoon, Auckland University Press, 2000, ISBN 1-86940-236-7 online, National prime minister 1975-84
• Hamer, David A. The New Zealand Liberals: The Years of Power, 1891-1912 (1988)
• Ryan, Greg. "Drink and the Historians: Sober Reflections on Alcohol in New Zealand 1840-1914," New Zealand Journal of History (2010) 44#1 pp 35-53. Examines drinking patterns, why men drank, whether drinking was excessive compared to other countries, how drinking behavior evolved, and the social role of brewers and the pub owners.
• Sinclair, Keith. Walter Nash (Auckland University Press, 1976) online, Labour prime minister 1957-60
• Watson, James, and Lachy Paterson, eds. A Great New Zealand Prime Minister? Reappraising William Ferguson Massey (2010), essays by scholars on the Reform Party Prime Minister 1912-25

• Else, Anne, ed. Women Together A History of Women's Organizations in New Zealand (Wellington: Daphne Brasell, 1993)
• Morrison, Hugh. "Globally and Locally Positioned: New Zealand Perspectives on the Current Practice of Religious History," Journal of Religious History (2011) 35#2 pp 181-198; historiography
• Morrison, Hugh. "The 'joy and heroism of doing good': The New Zealand Missionary" Record and Late-Nineteenth-Century Protestant Children's Missionary Support," Journal of New Zealand Literature: JNZL (2010) No. 28, Part 2: Special Issue: Cultures of Print in Colonial New Zealand pp. 158-182
• Simpson, Jane. "Women, Religion and Society in New Zealand: A Literature Review," Journal of Religious History (1994) 18#2 pp 198-218; historiography
• Tennant, Margaret. The Fabric of Welfare: Voluntary Organisations, Government and Welfare in New Zealand, 1840–2005 (2007)

• Adams, Peter. Fatal Necessity: British Intervention in New Zealand, 1830-47 (1978)
• Arnold, Rollo. The farthest promised land: English villagers, New Zealand immigrants of the 1870s (1981)
• Borrie W. D. Immigration to New Zealand: 1854-1938 (Canberra: Australian National University, 1991)
• Bueltmann, Tanja. "'No Colonists are more Imbued with their National Sympathies than Scotchmen,'" New Zealand Journal of History (2009) 43#2 pp 169-181. Covering the period from 1841 to 1930, the article examines the many Caledonian societies. They organized sports teams to entice the young and preserved an idealized Scottish national myth (based on Robert Burns) for the elderly. They gave Scots a path to assimilation and cultural integration as Scottish New Zealanders.
• Byrnes, Giselle. "Nation and Migration: Postcolonial Perspectives," New Zealand Journal Of History (2009) 43#2 pp 123-132.
• Gandar, J.M. "New Zealand Net Migration in the Latter Part of the Nineteenth Century," Australian Economic History Review (1979) 19:151-68
• Neville, R. J. Warwick and C.James O'Neill, eds. Population of New Zealand: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (1979)
• Pool, Ian, Arunachalam Dharmalingam, and Janet Sceats. The New Zealand Family since 1840: A Demographic History (Auckland University Press, 2007). 474 pp.

• Boyack, Nicholas. Behind the lines: The lives of New Zealand soldiers in the First World War (1989)
• Crawford, John. New Zealands Great War: New Zealand, the Allies and the First World War (2010)
• Pugsley, Christopher. The ANZAC experience: New Zealand, Australia and Empire in the First World War (2004)

• Baker, J. V. T. War Economy (1965) NZ official history
• Montgomerie, Deborah. The Women's War: New Zealand Women 1939-45 (2001) argues that the Second World War was not a major turning point in the status of women
• Taylor, Nancy M. The Home Front Volume I NZ official history (1986); Volume II
• Whitfeld, Frederick Lloyd. Political and External Affairs (1958) NZ official history
• Hall, D. O. W. "Women at War," in Episodes & Studies Volume 1 (Historical Publications Branch, Wellington, New Zealand, 1948) pp 1-33 online

• Austrin, Terry, and John Farnsworth. "Assembling Histories: J. G. A. Pocock, Aotearoa/New Zealand and the British World," History Compass (Sep 2009), 7#5 pp 1286-1302
• Hunter, Philippa. "Disturbing History's Identity in the New Zealand Curriculum to Free Up Historical Thinking," Curriculum Matters (2011) Vol. 7 online
• Pickles, Katie. "The Obvious and the Awkward: Postcolonialism and the British World," New Zealand Journal of History (2011) 45#1 pp 85-101; looks at metropole and colony
• Pollock, Jacob. "Cultural Colonization and Textual Biculturalism," New Zealand Journal of History (2007) 41#2 pp 180-198. Compares the approaches in James Belich's Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders. From Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth Century (1996) and Paradise Reforged: A History of the New Zealanders. From the 1880s to the Year 2000 (2001) with those of Michael King's The Penguin History of New Zealand (2003). Responding to Maori arguments that the colonial narrative of Pakeha history was a device to privilege the legitimacy of British colonization, Belich wrote a radically bicultural story. He says the two peoples --both immigrants--developed their mother cultures inside New Zealand. King takes a more traditional approach that portrays a new unified state in which there are not two distinct and equal cultures but two principal varieties of New Zealanders.

• The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies As well as all the Prime Ministers, Māori chiefs, early settlers and sporting legends, this also includes con artists, adventurers and other lesser known but interesting characters from New Zealand's past.
• Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. www.teara.govt.nz A work still in progress, this will eventually offer short but comprehensive snapshots of most aspects of New Zealand, past and present.
• nzhistory.net.nz An authoritative and fairly comprehensive online source, produced by the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
• The Cyclopedia of New Zealand 1897–1908. Encyclopedia covering people, organisations and places.
• Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 50-volume set now digitised by the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
• Campaign histories and the regimental histories covering New Zealand's involvement in the First World War by a variety of authors, digitised by the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
• New Zealand history at the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
• The Year-book of the Imperial Institute of the United Kingdom, the colonies and India: a statistical record of the resources and trade of the colonial and Indian possessions of the British Empire (2nd. ed. 1893) 880pp; New Zealand = pp 719-754 online edition

• Fraser, Lyndon, and Katie Pickles, eds. Shifting Centres: Women and Migration in New Zealand History (U. of Otago Press, 2002), 224pp; personal accounts, mostly after 1945
• McIntyre, W. David and W. J. Gardner, eds. Speeches and Documents on New Zealand History (1971), 489pp
• Parr, Alison. Home: Civilian New Zealanders Remember the Second World War (2010)
• Simpson, Tony, ed. The Sugarbag Years: An Oral History of the 1930s Depression in New Zealand (2009)