I'm going to Auckland in February and wanted to read a little about the place before I arrived. So I put it to the members of the Association for the Social Anthropology of Oceania: What sorts of books about New Zealand and its history and culture for an intelligent general reader to read on the plane? What follows are the answers.
Alves, Dora (ed). The Maori and the Crown: An indigenous people's struggle for self-determination.
Barber, Laurie H. New Zealand : a short history.
Bassett, Judith, Keith Sinclair and Marcia Stevens. The Story of New Zealand (Revised Edition).
Belich, James. Making peoples : a history of the New Zealanders from Polynesian settlement to the end of theÊ nineteenth century.Ê
Belich, James Paradise reforged : a history of the New Zealanders from the 1880s to the year 2000.
James Belich The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict.
Binney, Judith. The people and the land = Te tangata me te whenua : an illustrated history of New Zealand, 1820-1920.
Binney, Judith (ed). The shaping of history: essays from the NZ Journal of History.
Bohan, Edmund. New Zealand : the story so far : a short history.
Duff, Allen. One We Were Warriors.
Keri Hulme, The Bone People
King, Michael. Maori : a photographic and social history.
Gordon McLauchlan, The Passionless People.
Monin, Paul. This is my Place (Hauraki Contested 1769-1875).
Anne Salmond, Two Worlds: First Meetings Between Maori and Europeans, 1642-1772.
William Schafer, Mapping the Godzone: A Primer on New Zealand Literature and Culture.
Sinclair, Keith. A history of New Zealand. Rev.ed.
Stone, R.C.J. From Tamaki-Makau-Rau to Auckland.
Walker, R. J. Struggle without end = Ka whawhai tonu matou.
The Oxford history of New Zealand.