Bibliography of New Zealand history

Main article: History of New Zealand

This is a bibliography of New Zealand history.

Overview

• 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.

Environment and geography

• 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.

Economics

• 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
• Hunter, Ian and Marie Wilson. "Origins and Opportunity: 150 Years of New Zealand Entrepreneurship," Journal of Management and Organization (2007) 13#4 online

Foreign affairs and wars

• McKinnon, Malcolm. Independence and Foreign Policy: New Zealand in the World since 1935 (Auckland University Press 1993) online

Government and politics

• 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)
• 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 University Press, 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.

Population, migration

• Borrie W. D. Immigration to New Zealand: 1854-1938 (Canberra: Australian National University, 1991)
• Byrnes, Giselle. "Nation and Migration: Postcolonial Perspectives," New Zealand Journal Of History (2009) 43#2 pp 123-132.
• Pool, Ian, Arunachalam Dharmalingam, and Janet Sceats. The New Zealand Family since 1840: A Demographic History (Auckland University Press, 2007). 474 pp.)

Religion and society

• 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)

Historiography

• 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
• 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

Online reference works

• 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

Primary sources

• McIntyre, W. David and W. J. Gardner, eds. Speeches and Documents on New Zealand History (1971), 489pp
• Fraser, Lyndon, and Katie Pickles, eds. Shifting Centres: Women and Migration in New Zealand History (Univ of Otago Press, 2002), 224pp; personal accounts, mostly after 1945