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  • Dead Letters

    Censorship and subversion in New Zealand 1914–1920

    by Jared Davidson ...
    Uncover the hidden stories of wartime New Zealand. In 1918, a miner's letter to his sweetheart was intercepted, leading to his imprisonment. This is just one of the many remarkable stories revealed in Dead Letters, a deep dive into the world of wartime censorship and subversion in New Zealand.Using previously unseen confiscated mail, Jared Davidson unveils the lives of ordinary people caught in ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sewing Freedom

    Philip Josephs, Transnationalism & Early New Zealand Anarchism

    by Jared Davidson ...
    Sewing Freedom is the first in-depth study of anarchism in New Zealand during the turbulent years of the early 20th century-a time of wildcat strikes, industrial warfare, and a radical working class counter-culture. Interweaving biography, cultural history, and an array of archival sources, this engaging account unravels the anarchist-cum-bomber stereotype by piecing together the life of Philip ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blood and Dirt

    Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand

    by Jared Davidson ...
    Picture, for a minute, every artwork of colonial New Zealand you can think of. Now add a chain gang. Hard-labour men guarded by other men with guns. Men moving heavy metal. Men picking at the earth. Over and over again. This was the reality of nineteenth-century New Zealand.Forced labour haunts the streets we walk today and the spaces we take for granted. The unfree work of prisoners has shaped ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Introducing Te Tiriti o Waitangi

    He Tohu

    Edited by Jared Davidson ...
    Series series BWB Texts
    Introduced by Claudia OrangeIn 1840, over 500 Māori leaders put their names to a significant new document: Te Tiriti o Waitangi or the Treaty of Waitangi. Through their signatures, moko or marks they were making an agreement with the British Crown. At stake was the sovereignty of the country, the governance of the land. The history of this agreement is a remarkable one, told here in rich and ... Read more

    $4.02 CAD

  • Introducing He Whakaputanga

    He Tohu

    Edited by Jared Davidson ...
    Series series BWB Texts
    Introduced by Vincent O'MalleyHe Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni/The Declaration of Independence of New Zealand was signed by fifty-two rangatira from 1835 to 1839. It was a powerful assertion of mana and rangatiratanga, made after decades of Māori and European encounters that had been steadily expanding both within Aotearoa New Zealand and elsewhere on the globe as Māori travelled ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Introducing The Women's Suffrage Petition

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    Edited by Jared Davidson ...
    Series series BWB Texts
    Introduced by Barbara BrookesIn 1893 New Zealand became the first country in the world with universal suffrage: all New Zealand women now had the right to vote. This achievement owed much to an extraordinary document: the 1893 Women’s Suffrage Petition. Over 270 metres long, with the signatures of some 24,000 women (and at least twenty men), the Suffrage Petition represents the culmination of many ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The History of a Riot

    by Jared Davidson ...
    'Class lines between settlers and labourers had been drawn...What follows is a microhistory of collective revolt.'In 1843, the New Zealand Company settlement of Nelson was rocked by the revolt of its emigrant labourers. Over 70 gang-men and their wives collectively resisted their poor working conditions through petitions, strikes and, ultimately, violence. Yet this pivotal struggle went on to be ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD