A big ol’ list of texts relevant to learning about New Zealand society. It’s all broken down by topic so there are repeats wherever a text is useful on more than one subject. I’ve also added a film section (mostly documentaries) to the arts section at the end for good measure, and I intend to expand this as a living resource in the future. I’ll be linking to my reviews of texts in question where relevant. I’ve put this together in the hope that those who stumble across this blog might find it of use in learning about New Zealand as it really is warts, contradictions, and all. My greatest hope is that this guide plays some small part in a flourishing of study groups, DIY readers, research collectives, and all manner of political education projects to deepen our understanding of and sharpen our ability to change New Zealand.
Contents
Unionism, Socialism, and Labour
Labour History
Socialism and Anarchism
Gender and Sexual Politics
Women’s Liberation and History
Sexual and Gender Non/conformity
Abortion and Contraception
The Sex Industry
Colonialism and Ethnicity
Māori History, Politics, and Society
Racism and Ethnicity
Immigration Policy
Refugee Policy
Samoa and Colonialism Abroad
New Zealand and the Pacific
Economics
Political/Economy
The Depression
Nation, State, and Institutions
Nation and State Formation
Church and Religion
Education
Labour and Arbitration
Emergency and Disaster Services
Regional History
Dissent, Intelligence, and Criminalisation
Surveillance and State Security
Prisons and the Criminal System
Militarism and Anti-Militarism
Pacifism, Peace, and War
Land Wars and Musket Wars
Spanish Civil War
Second World War
Invasion of Afghanistan
Social Movements and Extra-Parliamentary Politics
Environmentalism and the Anti-Nuclear Movement
The Occupy Movement
Youth Culture and Politics
Republicanism
The 1981 Springbok Tour and the Anti-Apartheid Movement
The Radical Right
The Healthcare System
Health and Society
Drug Policy and Use
Parliamentary Politics
The Labour Party
The Liberal Party
The National Party
NewLabour and the Alliance
The Green Party
Culture, Literature, and Media
Auto/Biographical Works
Media
Art and Culture
Documentary
Film
Unionism, Socialism, and Labour
Labour History
Never a White Flag: The Memoirs of Jock Barnes
(Jock Barnes, 1998, Victoria University Press)
Trade Unions in NZ: Past & Present
(Bert Roth, 1973, AH & AW Reed)
The Red Feds: Revolutionary Industrial Unionism and the New Zealand Federation of Labour 1908–14
(Erik Olssen, 1988, Oxford University Press)
151 Days
(Dick Scott, 1952/1977, Labour Reprint Society)
Damned Mutineers: The New Zealand Naval Mutiny of 1947
(Kevin Baker, 1997, Mirovic Pty Limited)
“Rats and Revolutionaries”: The Labour Movement in Australia and New Zealand 1890-1940
(James Bennett, 2004, Otago University Press)
The New Zealand Labour Party, 1916-2016
(Peter Franks and Jim McAloon, 2017, Victoria University Press)
The Fire Last Time: The Rise of Class Struggle and Progressive Social Movements in Aotearoa, 1968-1977
(Brian Roper, 2012, International Socialist Organisation)
On the Left: Essays on Socialism in New Zealand
(Pat Maloney & Kerry Taylor, 2002, Otago University Press)
Break Down These Bars Jim Edwards
(David Ballantyne, 1987)
John A. Lee
(Erik Olssen, 1977, University of Otago Press)
The Scrim-Lee Papers: C. G. Scrimgeour and John A. Lee Remember the Crisis Years 1930-40
(Tony Simpson, 1976, A. H. & A. W. Reed)
Revolution: The 1913 Great Strike in New Zealand
(Melanie Nolan, 2006, Canterbury University Press)
New Zealand labour’s pioneering days: the history of the labour movement in N.Z. from 1840 to 1894
(J. D. Salmond, 1950, Forward Press)
Unions in Common Cause: The New Zealand Federation of Labour 1937-88
(Peter Franks & Melanie Nolan, 2011, Steele Roberts)
Workers in the Margins: Union Radicals in Post-war New Zealand
(Cybèle Locke, 2012, Bridget Williams Books)
The Lucifer: a story of industrial conflict in New Zealand in the 1930s
(Dave Welch, 1988, Dunmore Press)
The Forgotten Worker: the rural wage earner in nineteenth century New Zealand
(John Martin, 1990, Allen and Unwin)
Days of action: May Day, eight-hour day, Labour Day
(Bert Roth, 1990, Trade Union History Project)
Industrial Unionism
(Peter Steiner & Frank Hanlon, 2007, Rebel Press)
Rediscovering the 1949 Carpenters’ Strike
(Roy Stanley, 2013, International Socialist Organisation)
Coal, Class & Community: The United Mineworkers of New Zealand, 1880–1960
(Len Richardson, 2013, Auckland University Press)
Disaster at Brunner: the coalmine tragedy at Brunnerton
(Brian Wood, 1996, self-published)
The Significance of the 1912 Waihi Strike
(Martin Gregory, 2012, International Socialist Organisation)
British Capital, Antipodean Labour: Working the New Zealand Waterfront, 1915-1951
(Anna Green, 2001, University of Otago Press)
Labour’s Path to Political Independence: Origins and Establishment of the New Zealand Labour Party, 1900-19
(Barry Gustafson, 2013, Auckland University Press)
Neoliberal Labour Governments and the Union Response: The Politics of the End of Labourism
(J. Schulman, 2015, Springer)
Tom Barker and the IWW
(E. C. Fry, 1999, Industrial Workers of the World)
Toil & Trouble: The Struggle for a Better Life in New Zealand
(Bert Roth, 1981, Methuen New Zealand)
Knights Down Under: The Knights of Labour in New Zealand
(Robert E. Weir, 2009, Cambridge Scholars Publishing)
Print and Politics: A History of Trade Unions in the New Zealand Printing Industry, 1865-1995
(Peter Franks, 2001, Victoria University Press)
Compulsory Arbitration in New Zealand: The First Forty Years
(James Holt, 2013, Auckland University Press)
Born of Hunger, Pain and Strife: 150 years of struggle against unemployment in New Zealand
(Karen Davis, 1991, Peoples Press)
Blood on the Coal: The Origins and Future of New Zealand’s Accident Compensation Scheme
(Hazel Armstrong, 2008, Trade Union History Project)
Strike: Trouble at T’ Mill
(Barbara Fill, 1989, GP Books)
Advocate, educate, control: the history of the New Zealand Engineers’ Union, 1863-1983
(Bert Roth; 1984; Engineering, Coachbuilding, Aircraft, Motor and Related Trades Industrial Union of Workers)
A small but vital union: a history of engine-driver unionism in New Zealand
(Bert Roth; 1988; Engine Drivers, Firemen, Greasers and Assistants Union)
Along the Line: 100 Years of Post Office Unionism
(Bert Roth, 1990, NZ Post Office Union)
A century of struggle: the Auckland Trades Council, 1876-1976
(Bert Roth, 1977, Auckland Trades Council)
Pioneering New Zealand Labour History: Essays in Honour of Bert Roth
(Pat Walsh, 1994, Dunmore Press)
100 years fighting back: the story of the Auckland Carpenters’ Union, 1873-1973
(Bert Roth, 1973, NZ Carpenters’ Union)
The State and the Union, An Oral History of the PSA 1984-2012
(Mary Ellen O’Connor, 2013, Steele Roberts)
Remedy for present evils: a history of the New Zealand Public Service Association from 1890
(Bert Roth and Anna Rogers, 1987, NZPSA)
The Big Blue: snapshots of the 1951 waterfront lockout
(David Grant, 2004, Canterbury University Press)
Wharfie “from hand barrows to straddles”: unionism on the Auckland waterfront
(Bert Roth, 1993, Waterfront Workers Union)
Jagged Seas: The New Zealand Seamen’s Union 1879–2003
(David Grant, 2012, Canterbury University Press)
Mutiny!: Naval Insurrections in Australia and New Zealand
(Tom Frame & Kevin Baker, 2001, Allen & Unwin)
The Rise of New Zealand Labour: A History of the New Zealand Labour Party from 1916 to 1940
(Bruce Brown, 1962, Price Milburn)
New Zealand’s Labor government at work
(WB Sutch, 1940, League for Industrial Democracy)
A History of Socialist Thought Vol. III Part II: The Second International 1889-1914
(G.D.H. Cole, 1956, MacMillan & Co. Ltd)
A History of Socialist Thought Vol. IV Part II: Communism & Social Democracy 1914-1931
(G.D.H. Cole, 1958, MacMillan & Co. Ltd)
Remains to be Seen: Tracing Joe Hill’s ashes in New Zealand
(Jared Davidson, 2011, Rebel Press)
The “Socialism” of New Zealand
(Robert Hare Hutchinson, 1916, New Review Pub. Association)
Stick Out, Keep Left
(Elsie Locke & Jacquie Matthews, 1997, Auckland University Press)
She Dared to Speak: Connie Birchfield’s story
(Maureen Birchfield, 1998, University of Otago Press)
Fifty Years of Struggle: the Story of Equal Pay
(Melanie Nolan, 1997, Trade Union History Project)
The Lion and the Wolfhound: The Irish Rebellion on the New Zealand Goldfields
(David McGill, 1990, Grantham House)
No Easy Victory: Towards Equal Pay for Women in the Government Service 1890-1960
(Margaret Corner, 1988, New Zealand Public Service Association)
Bread and Roses: Sonja Davies Her Story
(Sonja Davies, 1984, Australia and Zealand Book Company)
Marching On
(Sonja Davies, 1997, Random House)
Labour Relations in New Zealand
(John Deeks and Peter Boxall, 1989, Longman Paul)
The People’s University: A Centennial History of the Canterbury Workers’ Educational Association 1915-2015
(Ian Dougherty, 2015, Canterbury University Press)
Common Cause: Essays in Australian and New Zealand Labour History
(Eric Fry, 1986, Allen & Unwin)
The History of a Riot
(Jared Davidson, 2021, Bridget Williams Books)
Employment Contracts: New Zealand Experiences
(Raymond Harbridge, 1993, Victoria University Press)
Costly Gold: Clutha Riches and their Human Toll
(J.S. & R.W. Murray, 1981, A.H. & A.W. Reed)
The Red and the Gold: An Informal Account of the Waihi Strike, 1912
(Stanley Roche, 1982, Oxford University Press)
Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration in New Zealand
(Noel Woods, 1963, Government Printer)
Locked Out: A Chronicle of the Milton Locked Out Workers 8 Year Fight Under the Employment Contracts Act
(Helen McAra, 2003, National Distribution Union)
Milton: The Story of a Lockout
(David Tranter, 1996, Square One Press)
Against the Wind: The Story of the New Zealand Seaman’s Union
(Conrad Bollinger, 1968, New Zealand Seaman’s Union)
Those Who Can Teach: A History of Secondary Education in New Zealand from the Union Perspective
(David Grant, 2003, Steele Roberts)
The Cooks and Stewards Union: A Memoir
(Gerry Hill, 2018)
Man for all Seasons: The Life and Times of Ken Douglas
(David Grant, 2010, Random House)
Comrade Bill Anderson: A Communist, Working-Class Life
(Cybèle Locke, 2022, Bridget Williams Books)
Where Giants Dwell: A Sailor’s Tale
(Gerry Evans, 1999, David Ling)
The Scarlet Runners: Women and Industrial Action 1889-1913
(Maryan Street, 1993, Working Life Communications)
Holding the Balance: A History of New Zealand’s Department of Labour 1891-1995
(John Martin, 1996, Canterbury University Press)
Socialism and Anarchism
Break Down These Bars Jim Edwards
(David Ballantyne, 1987)
Tom Barker and the IWW
(E. C. Fry, 1999, Industrial Workers of the World)
Remains to be Seen: Tracing Joe Hill’s ashes in New Zealand
(Jared Davidson, 2011, Rebel Press)
The Red Feds: Revolutionary Industrial Unionism and the New Zealand Federation of Labour 1908–14
(Erik Olssen, 1988, Oxford University Press)
“Rats and Revolutionaries”: The Labour Movement in Australia and New Zealand 1890-1940
(James Bennett, 2004, Otago University Press)
Revolution: The 1913 Great Strike in New Zealand
(Melanie Nolan, 2006, Canterbury University Press)
Industrial Unionism
(Peter Steiner & Frank Hanlon, 2007, Rebel Press)
A History of Socialist Thought Vol. III Part II: The Second International 1889-1914
(G.D.H. Cole, 1956, MacMillan & Co. Ltd)
A History of Socialist Thought Vol. IV Part II: Communism & Social Democracy 1914-1931
(G.D.H. Cole, 1958, MacMillan & Co. Ltd)
Remains to be Seen: Tracing Joe Hill’s ashes in New Zealand
(Jared Davidson, 2011, Rebel Press)
The “Socialism” of New Zealand
(Robert Hare Hutchinson, 1916, New Review Pub. Association)
The Fire Last Time: The Rise of Class Struggle and Progressive Social Movements in Aotearoa, 1968-1977
(Brian Roper, 2012, International Socialist Organisation)
On the Left: Essays on Socialism in New Zealand
(Pat Maloney & Kerry Taylor, 2002, Otago University Press)
Rabble Rousers & Merry Pranksters: A History of Anarchism in Aotearoa/NZ from the Mid-1950s to the Early 1980s
(Toby Boraman, 2007, Katipo Books)
Sewing Freedom: Philip Josephs, Transnationalism & Early New Zealand Anarchism
(Jared Davidson, 2013, AK Press)
Fighting War: Anarchists, Wobblies & the New Zealand State 1905–1925
(Jared Davidson, 2016, Rebel Press)
Traitors to Class & Country
(Bruce Jesson, 1965, Workers Action Movement)
New Zealand in Crisis: A Socialist Perspective
(Bill Anderson, 1993, Socialist Party of Aotearoa)
Waiting for the Revolution
(James Edwards, 1998, David Ling Publishing)
Socialism in New Zealand
(John A. Lee, 1938, T.W. Laurie)
Rhetoric at the Red Dawn
(John A. Lee, 1965, Collins)
The Communist Party of New Zealand 1921-1981
(1981, Communist Party of New Zealand)
Comrade Bill Anderson: A Communist, Working-Class Life
(Cybèle Locke, 2022, Bridget Williams Books)
Rewi Alley: An Autobiography
(Rewi Alley, 1987, New World Press)
New Zealand and the Soviet Union, 1950-1991: A Brittle Relationship
(A.C. Wilson, 2004, Victoria University Press)
Lenin’s Legacy Down Under: New Zealand’s Cold War
(Alexander Trapeznik & Aaron Fox, 2004, Otago University Press)
Man for all Seasons: The Life and Times of Ken Douglas
(David Grant, 2010, Random House)
Constant Radical: The Life and Times of Sue Bradford
(Jenny Chamberlain, 2017, Fraser Books)
Gordon Watson, New Zealander, 1912-45: His Life and Writings
(Elsie Locke, 1949, Communist Party of New Zealand)
Student at the Gates
(Elsie Locke, 1981, Whitcoulls)
Looking for Answers: A Life of Elsie Locke
(Maureen Birchfield, 2009, Canterbury University Press)
Poata: Seeing Beyond the Horizon
(Tama Poata, 2012, Steele Roberts)
Gender and Sexual Politics
Women’s Liberation and History
Fighting to Choose: The Abortion Rights Struggle in New Zealand
(Alison McCulloch, 2013, Victoria University Press)
Up From Under: Women and Liberation in NZ 1970-1985
(Christine Dann, 1985, Allen & Unwin)
The Vote, the Pill and the Demon Drink: A History of Feminist Writing in New Zealand, 1869–1993
(Charlotte Macdonald, 1993, Bridget Williams Books)
Outlines: Lesbian and gay histories in Aotearoa
(Linda Evans, 2005, Lesbian & Gay Archives of New Zealand)
Stick Out, Keep Left
(Elsie Locke & Jacquie Matthews, 1997, Auckland University Press)
She Dared to Speak: Connie Birchfield’s story
(Maureen Birchfield, 1998, University of Otago Press)
Broadsheet: Twenty Years of Broadsheet Magazine
(Pat Rosier, 1992, New Woman’s Press)
Women Together: A History of Women’s Organisations in New Zealand
(Anne Else, 1993, Department of Internal Affairs)
Women With A Cause
(WB Sutch, 1974, New Zealand University Press)
The National Council of Women: A Centennial History
(Dorothy Page, 1996, Bridget Williams Books)
Women and Economics: A New Zealand Feminist Perspective
(Prue Hyman, 1996, Bridget Williams Books)
Abortion Then and Now: New Zealand Abortion Stories from 1940 to 1980
(Margaret Sparrow, 2010, Victoria University Press)
Women’s Suffrage in NZ
(Patricia Grimshaw, 1972, Auckland University Press)
Fifty Years of Struggle: the Story of Equal Pay
(Melanie Nolan, 1997, Trade Union History Project)
A Woman’s Place?
(Judith Aitken, 1975, Heinemann Educational Books)
Women in History: Essays on European Women in NZ
(Barbara Brookes, Charlotte Macdonald and Margaret Tennant; 1986; Allen & Unwin)
Feminist Thought in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Differences and Connections
(Rosemary Du Plessis & Lynne Alice, 1998, Oxford University Press Australia & New Zealand)
Hopes Dashed? The Economics of Gender Inequality
(Prue Hyman, 2017, Bridget Williams Books)
Working Girls
(Jan Jordan, 1991, Penguin)
Women in New Zealand Society
(Phillida Bunkle & Beryl Hughes, 1980, George Allen & Unwin)
No Easy Victory: Towards Equal Pay for Women in the Government Service 1890-1960
(Margaret Corner, 1988, New Zealan Public Service Association)
Bread and Roses: Sonja Davies Her Story
(Sonja Davies, 1984, Australia and Zealand Book Company)
Marching On
(Sonja Davies, 1997, Random House)
Trust: A True Story of Women & Gangs
(Pip Desmond, 2009, Random House)
The Ladies are at it Again! Gore Debates the Women’s Franchise
(Rosemarie Smith, 1993, Women’s Studies Victoria University of Wellington)
Women’s Criminalisation and Offending in Australia and New Zealand
(Victoria M. Nagy & Georgina Rychner, 2023, Routledge)
Where Did She Come From? New Zealand Women Novelists 1862-1987
(Heather Roberts, 1989, Allen & Unwin)
Student at the Gates
(Elsie Locke, 1981, Whitcoulls)
Looking for Answers: A Life of Elsie Locke
(Maureen Birchfield, 2009, Canterbury University Press)
Rocking the Cradle: Contraception, Sex and Politics in New Zealand
(Helen Smyth, 2000, Steele Roberts)
Risking Their Lives: New Zealand Abortion Stories 1900-1939
(Margaret Sparrow, 2017, Victoria University Press)
Rough on Women: Abortion in Nineteenth Century New Zealand
(Margaret Sparrow, 2014, Victoria University Press)
The Scarlet Runners: Women and Industrial Action 1889-1913
(Maryan Street, 1993, Working Life Communications)
Sexual and Gender Non/conformity
Worlds in Collision: The Gay Debate in New Zealand, 1960-1986
(Laurie Guy, 2002, Victoria University Press)
Outlines: Lesbian and gay histories in Aotearoa
(Linda Evans, 2005, Lesbian & Gay Archives of New Zealand)
Twenty Years on: Histories of Homosexual Law Reform in New Zealand
(Alison J. Laurie and Linda Evans, 2009, Lesbian & Gay Archives of New Zealand)
Best Mates: Gay Writing in Aotearoa/New Zealand
(Peter Welles & Rex Pilgrim, 1997, Reed Books)
Queer in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Lynne Alice & Lynne Star, 2004, Dunmore Publishing)
Sexuality Down Under: Social and historical perspectives
(Allison Kirkman and Pat Moloney, 2005, University of Otago Press)
Manly Affections: The Photographs of Robert Gant, 1885-1915
(Chris Brickell, 2012, Genre Books)
Mates and Lovers: A History of Gay NZ
(Chris Brickell, 2008, Random House)
Southern Men: Gay Lives in Pictures
(Chris Brickell, 2014, Genre Books)
Abortion and Contraception
Fighting to Choose: The Abortion Rights Struggle in New Zealand
(Alison McCulloch, 2013, Victoria University Press)
Up From Under: Women and Liberation in NZ 1970-1985
(Christine Dann, 1985, Allen & Unwin)
The Vote, the Pill and the Demon Drink: A History of Feminist Writing in New Zealand, 1869–1993
(Charlotte Macdonald, 1993, Bridget Williams Books)
Abortion Then and Now: New Zealand Abortion Stories from 1940 to 1980
(Margaret Sparrow, 2010, Victoria University Press)
Rocking the Cradle: Contraception, Sex and Politics in New Zealand
(Helen Smyth, 2000, Steele Roberts)
Risking Their Lives: New Zealand Abortion Stories 1900-1939
(Margaret Sparrow, 2017, Victoria University Press)
Rough on Women: Abortion in Nineteenth Century New Zealand
(Margaret Sparrow, 2014, Victoria University Press)
The Sex Industry
Working Girls
(Jan Jordan, 1991, Penguin)
The Sex Industry in New Zealand: A Literature Review
(Jan Jordan, 2005, Ministry of Justice)
Taking the Crime Out of Sex Work: New Zealand Sex Workers’ Fight for Decriminalisation
(Gillian Abel, Lisa Fitzgerald, Catherine Healy, Aline Taylor; 2010; Policy Press)
Colonialism and Ethnicity
Māori History, Politics, and Society
Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou Struggle Without End
(Ranginui Walker, 1990, Penguin)
Hikoi: Forty Years of Māori Protest
(Aroha Harris, 2004, Huia Publishers)
The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict
(James Belich, 1986, Auckland University Press)
Māori Sovereignty
(Donna Awatere, 1984)
History of Māori Activism
(Ranginui Walker, 1983)
The State of Māori Rights
(Margaret Mutu, 2011, Huia Publishers)
Wars Without End: The Land Wars in Nineteenth Century New Zealand
(Danny Keenan, 2009, Penguin Books)
Encircled Lands: Te Urewera, 1820-1921
(Judith Binney, 2009, Bridget Williams Books)
Parihaka Invaded
(Dick Scott, 2014, Bridget Williams Books)
Mihaia: The Prophet Rua Kenana and His Community at Maungapohatu
(Judith Binney, 1996, Auckland University Press)
Liberating Māori from Educational Subjugation
(Ranginui Walker, 1991)
The Political Development of the Māori People in New Zealand
(Ranginui Walker, 1984)
I Shall Not Die: Titokowaru’s War, 1868-1869
(James Belich, 2010, Bridget Williams Books)
Te Riri Pakeha: The White Man’s Anger
(Tony Simpson, 1986, Hodder and Stoughton)
Perceptions and Attitudes of the New Generation of Māoris to Pakeha Domination
(Ranginui Walker, 1981)
The Treaty of Waitangi
(Ranginui Walker, 1983)
The Meaning of Biculturalism
(Ranginui Walker, 1986, self-published)
Nga Tau Tohetohe: Years of Anger
(Ranginui Walker, 2009)
Chiefs of Industry: Māori Tribal Enterprise in Early Colonial New Zealand
(Hazel Petrie, 2013, Auckland University Press)
A Question of Honour?
(Jane Kelsey, 1990, Allen & Unwin)
The Fourth Eye: Māori Media in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Brendan Hokowhitu and Vijay Devadas, 2013, University of Minnesota Press)
Criminal Injustice: Māori, Racism and Mass Incarceration
(Derwin Smith, 2014, International Socialist Organisation)
Fragments from a Contested Past: Remembrance, Denial and New Zealand History
(Joanna Kidman, Vincent O’Malley, Liana MacDonald, Tom Roa and Keziah Wallis; 2022; Bridget Williams Books)
Voices from the New Zealand Wars/He Reo Nō Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa
(Vincent O’Malley, 2021, Bridget Williams Books)
The New Zealand Wars/Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa
(Vincent O’Malley, 2019, Bridget Williams Books)
The Great War for New Zealand: Waikato 1800-2000
(Vincent O’Malley, 2016, Bridget Williams Books)
Haerenga: Early Māori Journeys Across the Globe
(Vincent O’Malley, 2015, Bridget Williams Books)
Beyond the Imperial Frontier: The Contest for Colonial New Zealand
(Vincent O’Malley, 2014, Bridget Williams Books)
The Meeting Place: Māori and Pākehā Encounters, 1642-1840
(Vincent O’Malley, 2012, Auckland University Press)
Agents of Autonomy: Māori Committees in the Nineteenth Century
(Vincent O’Malley, 1998, Huia Publishers)
Aftermaths: Remembering Colonial Violence in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific
(Lyndall Ryan and Angela Wanhalla, 2023, Otago University Press)
Raupatu: The Confiscation of Māori Land
(Richard Boast and Richard S. Hill, 2009, Victoria University Press)
Tutu Te Puehu: New Perspectives on the New Zealand Wars
(John Crawford and Ian McGibbon, 2018, Steele Roberts)
After the Treaty: The Colonial State, Race Relations and the Exercise of Military Force in Nineteenth Century New Zealand
(Richard S. Hill and Brad Patterson, 2016, Steele Roberts)
A Show of Justice: Racial ‘Amalgamation’ in Nineteenth Century New Zealand
(Alan Ward, 1974, Australian National University Press)
Ralph Hotere: Out the Black Window
(Gregory O’Brien, 1997, Random House)
Poata: Seeing Beyond the Horizon
(Tama Poata, 2012, Steele Roberts)
Māori Health and Government Policy 1840-1940
(Derek A. Dow, 1999, Victoria University Press)
Racism and Ethnicity
Politics of Nostalgia: racism & the extreme right in NZ
(Paul Spoonley, 1987, Dunmore Press)
Dancing on Our Bones: New Zealand, South Africa, Rugby and Racism
(Trevor Lawson Richards, 1999, Bridget Williams Books)
Pacific migrant labour, class, and racism in New Zealand: fresh off the boat
(Terrence Loomis, 1990, Avebury)
Nga Patai: Racism and Ethnic Relations in Aotearoa/New Zealand
(Paul Spoonley, David G. Pearson and Cluny MacPherson; 1996; Dunmore Press)
Revival of the Right: New Zealand Politics In The 1980s
(Bruce Jesson, Paul Spoonley and Allanah Ryan; 1988; Heinemann Reed)
Apartheid is Not a Game: The Inside Story of New Zealand’s Struggle Against Apartheid Sport
(Thomas Oliver Newnham, 1975, Graphic Publications)
Old Asian, New Asian
(K. Emma Ng, 2017, Bridget Williams Books)
Refuge New Zealand: A nation’s response to refugees and asylum seekers
(Ann Beaglehole, 2013, Otago University Press)
Silent Discontent: Experiences of Everyday Racism in New Zealand
(Indra Prasad, 2000, Victoria University Press)
Racism and Ethnicity
(Paul Spoonley, 1988, Oxford University Press)
Tauiwi: racism and ethnicity in New Zealand
(Paul Spoonley, 1984, Dunmore Press)
The Lion and the Wolfhound: The Irish Rebellion on the New Zealand Goldfields
(David McGill, 1990, Grantham House)
Between the Lines: Racism and the New Zealand Media
(Paul Spoonley & Walter Hirsh, 1990, Heinemann Reed)
After the Treaty: The Colonial State, Race Relations and the Exercise of Military Force in Nineteenth Century New Zealand
(Richard S. Hill and Brad Patterson, 2016, Steele Roberts)
Immigration Policy
Pacific migrant labour, class, and racism in New Zealand: fresh off the boat
(Terrence Loomis, 1990, Avebury)
Nga Patai: Racism and Ethnic Relations in Aotearoa/New Zealand
(Paul Spoonley, David G. Pearson and Cluny MacPherson; 1996; Dunmore Press)
Old Asian, New Asian
(K. Emma Ng, 2017, Bridget Williams Books)
Silent Discontent: Experiences of Everyday Racism in New Zealand
(Indra Prasad, 2000, Victoria University Press)
Refugee Policy
Refuge New Zealand: A nation’s response to refugees and asylum seekers
(Ann Beaglehole, 2013, Otago University Press)
A Small Price to Pay: Refugees from Hitler in New Zealand 1936–46
(Ann Beaglehole, 2015, Bridget Williams Books)
The Quiet War on Asylum
(Tracey Barnett, 2014, Bridget Williams Books)
I Almost Forgot About The Moon: The Disinformation Campaign Against Ahmed Zaoui
(Selwyn Manning, Yasmine Ryan, Katie Small; 2004; Multimedia Investments)
Samoa and Colonialism Abroad
Fono: The Contest for the Governance of Samoa
(Peter Swain, 2022, Te Herenga Waka University Press)
Samoa mo Samoa: Black Saturday 1929
(Michael J Field, 2015, Bridget Williams Books)
Samoa mo Samoa: The Emergence of the Independent State of Western Samoa
(J.W. Davidson, 1967, Oxford University Press)
Mau: Samoa’s Struggle Against New Zealand Oppression
(Michael J Field, 1984, Reed)
New Zealand and the Pacific
Negligent Neighbour: New Zealand’s Complicity in the Invasion and Occupation of Timor-Leste
(Maire Leadbeater, 2006, Craig Potton Publishing)
See No Evil: New Zealand’s betrayal of the people of West Papua
(Maire Leadbeater, 2006, Craig Potton Publishing)
Economics
Political/Economy
Chiefs of Industry: Māori Tribal Enterprise in Early Colonial New Zealand
(Hazel Petrie, 2013, Auckland University Press)
Prosperity for All?: Economic, Social and Political Change in New Zealand Since 1935
(Brian Roper, 2005, Thomson Dunmore Press)
The Quest for Security
(WB Sutch, 1942, Penguin)
State Experiments in Australia & NZ
(William Pember Reeves, 1902)
Only Their Purpose is Mad
(Bruce Jesson, 1999, Dunmore Press)
Poverty and Progress in NZ
(WB Sutch, 1941, Modern Books)
The New Zealand Experiment
(Jane Kelsey, 1995, Auckland University Press)
Colony or Nation?
(WB Sutch, 1966, Sydney University Press)
To Build A Nation: Collected Writings ’75-’99
(Bruce Jesson, 2005, Penguin)
The Broken Decade: Prosperity, Depression and Recovery in New Zealand, 1928-39
(Malcolm McKinnon, 2016, Otago University Press)
The Political Economy of New Zealand
(Chris Rudd & Brian Roper, 1997, Oxford University Press)
The Slump – The 1930s Depression: Its Origins and Aftermath
(Tony Simpson, 1990, Penguin Books)
The FIRE Economy
(Jane Kelsey, 2015, Bridget Williams Books)
The State & Its Functions in NZ
(William Pember Reeves, 1896, Fabian Society)
The Responsible Society in New Zealand
(WB Sutch, 1971, Whitcombe and Tombs)
The Fletcher Challenge
(Bruce Jesson, 1980, self-published)
Behind the Mirror Glass
(Bruce Jesson, 1987, Penguin)
At The Crossroads: Three Essays
(Jane Kelsey, 2002, Bridget Williams Books)
Rolling Back the State
(Jane Kelsey, 1993, Bridget Williams Books)
Home Truths: Confronting New Zealand’s Housing Crisis
(Philippa Howden-Chapman, 2015, Bridget Williams Books)
Wealth and New Zealand
(Max Rashbrooke, 2015, Bridget Williams Books)
Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis
(Max Rashbrooke, 2013, Bridget Williams Books)
Generation Rent: Rethinking New Zealand’s Priorities
(Shamubeel Eaqub and Selena Eaqub, 2015, Bridget Williams Books)
Sovereignty under Siege?: Globalization and New Zealand
(Chris Rudd, 2017, Routledge)
The Commercialisation of New Zealand
(Brian Easton, 2013, Auckland University Press)
Who Owns New Zealand?
(WB Sutch, 1973, New Zealand University Press)
Takeover New Zealand
(WB Sutch, 1972, A. H. & A. W. Reed)
Reclaiming the Future
(Jane Kelsey, 1999, Bridget Williams Books)
Serving Whose Interests?
(Jane Kesley, 2008, Taylor & Francis)
New Zealand in Crisis: A Socialist Perspective
(Bill Anderson, 1993, Socialist Party of Aotearoa)
In Stormy Seas: The Post-War New Zealand Economy
(Brian Easton, 1997, Otago University Press)
Not in Narrow Seas: The Economic History of Aotearoa New Zealand
(Brian Easton, 2020, Victoria University Press)
Spirit of an Age: New Zealand in the Seventies: Essays in Honour of W.B. Sutch
(John L. Robson & Jack Shallcrass, 1975, A.H. & A.W. Reed)
A Southern Gentry: New Zealanders Who Inherited the Earth
(Stevan Eldred-Grigg, 1980, A.H. & A.W. Reed)
An Economic History of New Zealand
(Muriel Lloyd Prichard, 1970, Collins)
The Future of New Zealand
(Muriel Lloyd Prichard, 1964, Whitcombe & Tombs)
The Depression
Break Down These Bars Jim Edwards
(David Ballantyne, 1987)
John A. Lee
(Erik Olssen, 1977, University of Otago Press)
The Scrim-Lee Papers: C. G. Scrimgeour and John A. Lee Remember the Crisis Years 1930-40
(Tony Simpson, 1976, A. H. & A. W. Reed)
Never a White Flag: The Memoirs of Jock Barnes
(Jock Barnes, 1998, Victoria University Press)
“Rats and Revolutionaries”: The Labour Movement in Australia and New Zealand 1890-1940
(James Bennett, 2004, Otago University Press)
The New Zealand Labour Party, 1916-2016
(Peter Franks and Jim McAloon, 2017, Victoria University Press)
The Lucifer: a story of industrial conflict in New Zealand in the 1930s
(Dave Welch, 1988, Dunmore Press)
Coal, Class & Community: The United Mineworkers of New Zealand, 1880–1960
(Len Richardson, 2013, Auckland University Press)
The Rise of New Zealand Labour: A History of the New Zealand Labour Party from 1916 to 1940
(Bruce Brown, 1962, Price Milburn)
New Zealand’s Labor government at work
(WB Sutch, 1940, League for Industrial Democracy)
Prosperity for All?: Economic, Social and Political Change in New Zealand Since 1935
(Brian Roper, 2005, Thomson Dunmore Press)
The Quest for Security
(WB Sutch, 1942, Penguin)
The Broken Decade: Prosperity, Depression and Recovery in New Zealand, 1928-39
(Malcolm McKinnon, 2016, Otago University Press)
The Slump – The 1930s Depression: Its Origins and Aftermath
(Tony Simpson, 1990, Penguin Books)
Nation, State, and Institutions
Nation and State Formation
The Prickly Pair: Making Nationalism in Australia and New Zealand
(Denis McLean, 2003, Otago University Press)
Studies of a Small Democracy: Essays in Honour of Willis Airey
(Robert Chapman, 1963, Auckland University Press)
Prosperity for All?: Economic, Social and Political Change in New Zealand Since 1935
(Brian Roper, 2005, Thomson Dunmore Press)
The Quest for Security
(WB Sutch, 1942, Penguin)
A Civilised Community: A History of Social Security in New Zealand 1898-1998
(Margaret McClure, 1998, Auckland University Press)
An Economic History of New Zealand
(Muriel Lloyd Prichard, 1970, Collins)
The Future of New Zealand
(Muriel Lloyd Prichard, 1964, Whitcombe & Tombs)
In Stormy Seas: The Post-War New Zealand Economy
(Brian Easton, 1997, Otago University Press)
Not in Narrow Seas: The Economic History of Aotearoa New Zealand
(Brian Easton, 2020, Victoria University Press)
Spirit of an Age: New Zealand in the Seventies: Essays in Honour of W.B. Sutch
(John L. Robson & Jack Shallcrass, 1975, A.H. & A.W. Reed)
The State & Its Functions in NZ
(William Pember Reeves, 1896, Fabian Society)
The Political Economy of New Zealand
(Chris Rudd & Brian Roper, 1997, Oxford University Press)
State Experiments in Australia & NZ
(William Pember Reeves, 1902)
Māori Health and Government Policy 1840-1940
(Derek A. Dow, 1999, Victoria University Press)
A Show of Justice: Racial ‘Amalgamation’ in Nineteenth Century New Zealand
(Alan Ward, 1974, Australian National University Press)
Holding the Balance: A History of New Zealand’s Department of Labour 1891-1995
(John Martin, 1996, Canterbury University Press)
Those Who Can Teach: A History of Secondary Education in New Zealand from the Union Perspective
(David Grant, 2003, Steele Roberts)
Labour and Arbitration
Holding the Balance: A History of New Zealand’s Department of Labour 1891-1995
(John Martin, 1996, Canterbury University Press)
Compulsory Arbitration in New Zealand: The First Forty Years
(James Holt, 2013, Auckland University Press)
Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration in New Zealand
(Noel Woods, 1963, Government Printer)
Church and Religion
Churches & People in Australia and New Zealand, 1860-1930
(H. R. Jackson, 1987, Allen & Unwin)
Shaping Godzone: Public Issues and Church Voices in New Zealand 1840-2000
(Laurie Guy, 2011, Victoria University Press)
Destiny: The Life and Times of a Self-Made Apostle
(Peter Lineham, 2013, Penguin Books)
The New Zealand Student Christian Movement, 1896-1996: A Centennial History
(Christine Berry, 1996, SCM Aotearoa)
Education
Students and the Education Factory
(Grant Brookes, 1997, International Socialist Organisation)
Twelve Thousand Hours: Education and Poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Vicki Carpenter and Sue Osborne, 2014, Dunmore Publishing)
The New Zealand Student Christian Movement, 1896-1996: A Centennial History
(Christine Berry, 1996, SCM Aotearoa)
Players Protesters and Politicians: A History of the University of Canterbury Students’ Association
(Jean Scharfe, 1995, Clerestory Press)
Liberating Māori from Educational Subjugation
(Ranginui Walker, 1991)
Justice and Jellybeans
(Ron Chambers, 2006, Tablet Print)
By Students for Students: A History of the Otago Polytechnic Students’ Association 1964-2014
(Ian Dougherty, 2014, Otago Polytechnic Students’ Association)
The People’s University: A Centennial History of the Canterbury Workers’ Educational Association 1915-2015
(Ian Dougherty, 2015, Canterbury University Press)
Paulo Freire, Politics & Pedagogy: Reflections from Aotearoa-New Zealand
(Peter Roberts, 1999, Dunmore Press)
Tower Turmoil: Characters and Controversies at the University of Otago
(The Time Keepers, 2005, Department of History University of Otago)
Those Who Can Teach: A History of Secondary Education in New Zealand from the Union Perspective
(David Grant, 2003, Steele Roberts)
Emergency and Disaster Services
Where There’s Smoke…
(Grant Gillon, 1998, Howling at the Moon)
Regional History
The Shepherd and the Scullery-Maid, 1850-1950: Canterbury Without Laurels
(Elsie Locke, 1950, Communist Party of New Zealand)
Costly Gold: Clutha Riches and their Human Toll
(J.S. & R.W. Murray, 1981, A.H. & A.W. Reed)
The Ladies are at it Again! Gore Debates the Women’s Franchise
(Rosemarie Smith, 1993, Women’s Studies Victoria University of Wellington)
A History of Otago
(Erik Olssen, 1984, J. McIndoe)
Dissent, Intelligence, and Criminalisation
Surveillance and State Security
The Day the Raids Came: Stories of survival and resistance to the state terror raids
(Valerie Morse, 2010, Rebel Press)
Dear Neil Roberts
(Airini Beautrais, 2014, Victoria University Press)
Against Freedom: The war on terrorism in everyday NZ life
(Valerie Morse, 2007, Rebel Press)
Terror in Our Midst?: Searching for Terrorism in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Danny Keenan, 2008, Huia Publishers)
The Post-Snowden Era: Mass Surveillance and Privacy in New Zealand
(Kathleen Kuehn, 2016, Bridget Williams Books)
Complacent Nation
(Gavin Ellis, 2016, Bridget Williams Books)
Fighting War: Anarchists, Wobblies & the New Zealand State 1905–1925
(Jared Davidson, 2016, Rebel Press)
Secret Power
(Nicky Hager, 1996, Craig Potton Publishing)
Can’t Hear Me Scream
(Valerie Morse, 2008, Rebel Press)
Dead Letters: Censorship and Subversion in New Zealand 1914-1920
(Jared Davidson, 2019, Otago University Press)
I Almost Forgot About The Moon: The Disinformation Campaign Against Ahmed Zaoui
(Selwyn Manning, Yasmine Ryan, Katie Small; 2004; Multimedia Investments)
Prisons and the Criminal System
Patched: The History of Gangs in NZ
(Jarrod Gilbert, 2013, Auckland University Press)
A Punitive Society: Falling Crime and Rising Imprisonment in New Zealand
(John Pratt, 2013, Bridget Williams Books)
Criminal Injustice: Māori, Racism and Mass Incarceration
(Derwin Smith, 2014, International Socialist Organisation)
Prison Abolition
(No Pride In Prisons, 2016)
Torture in NZ Prisons: A Briefing
(No Pride In Prisons, 2017)
Unlocking Prisons: How We Can Improve New Zealand’s Prison System
(JustSpeak, 2014)
The Iron Hand in the Velvet Glove: The Modernisation of Policing in New Zealand, 1886-1917
(Richard S. Hall, 1995, Dunmore Press)
Punishment & Politics: The Maximum Security Prison in New Zealand
(Greg Newbold, 1989, Oxford University Press)
Trust: A True Story of Women & Gangs
(Pip Desmond, 2009, Random House)
Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand
(Jared Davidson, 2023, Bridget Williams Book)
Punishment in a Perfect Society: The New Zealand Penal System 1840-1939
(John Pratt, 1992, Victoria University Press)
Women’s Criminalisation and Offending in Australia and New Zealand
(Victoria M. Nagy & Georgina Rychner, 2023, Routledge)
I Almost Forgot About The Moon: The Disinformation Campaign Against Ahmed Zaoui
(Selwyn Manning, Yasmine Ryan, Katie Small; 2004; Multimedia Investments)
Militarism and Anti-Militarism
Pacifism, Peace, and War
We Will Not Cease
(Archibald Baxter, 1939, republished by various publishers)
Peace, Power and Politics
(Maire Leadbetter, 2013, Otago University Press)
We Said No To War!
(Walter Lawry, 1994, Wordspinners Unlimited)
Field Punishment No. 1: Archibald Baxter, Mark Briggs & New Zealand’s Anti-Militarist Tradition
(David Grant and Bob Kerr, 2008, Steele Roberts)
Redefining the Pacific? Regionalism Past, Present and Future
(Jenny Bryant-Tokalau & Ian Frazer, 2006, Ashgate Publishing)
Alternatives to ANZUS
(Roderick Phillips, 1977, New Zealand Foundation for Peace Studies)
Alternatives to ANZUS Vol. II
(Roderick M. Alley, 1984, New Zealand Foundation for Peace Studies)
Peace People: A History of Peace Activities in New Zealand
(Elsie Locke, 1992, Hazard Press)
Land Wars and Musket Wars
The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict
(James Belich, 1986, Auckland University Press)
Wars Without End: The Land Wars in Nineteenth Century New Zealand
(Danny Keenan, 2009, Penguin Books)
I Shall Not Die: Titokowaru’s War, 1868-1869
(James Belich, 2010, Bridget Williams Books)
Fragments from a Contested Past: Remembrance, Denial and New Zealand History
(Joanna Kidman, Vincent O’Malley, Liana MacDonald, Tom Roa and Keziah Wallis; 2022; Bridget Williams Books)
Voices from the New Zealand Wars/He Reo Nō Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa
(Vincent O’Malley, 2021, Bridget Williams Books)
The New Zealand Wars/Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa
(Vincent O’Malley, 2019, Bridget Williams Books)
The Great War for New Zealand: Waikato 1800-2000
(Vincent O’Malley, 2016, Bridget Williams Books)
Aftermaths: Remembering Colonial Violence in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific
(Lyndall Ryan and Angela Wanhalla, 2023, Otago University Press)
Tutu Te Puehu: New Perspectives on the New Zealand Wars
(John Crawford and Ian McGibbon, 2018, Steele Roberts)
After the Treaty: The Colonial State, Race Relations and the Exercise of Military Force in Nineteenth Century New Zealand
(Richard S. Hill and Brad Patterson, 2016, Steele Roberts)
Spanish Civil War
Petals and Bullets: Dorothy Morris – New Zealand Nurse in the Spanish Civil War
(Mark Derby, 2015, Sussex Academic Press)
Kiwi Companeros: New Zealand and the Spanish Civil War
(Mark Derby, 2009, Canterbury University Press)
Second World War
Guerilla Surgeon: A New Zealand Surgeon’s Wartime Experiences with the Yugoslav Partisans
(Lindsay Rogers, 1957, Collins)
The Yanks are Coming: The American Invasion of New Zealand, 1942-1944
(Harry Bioletti, 1995, Random House)
John Mulgan and the Greek Left: A Regrettably Intimate Acquaintance
(C. Dimitris Gounelas & Ruth Parkin-Gounelas, 2023, Victoria University Press)
Invasion of Afghanistan
Other People’s Wars
(Nicky Hager, 2011, Craig Potton Publishing)
Hit & Run: The New Zealand SAS in Afghanistan and the Meaning of Honour
(Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson, 2017, Potton & Burton Limited)
New Zealand’s role in the occupation of Afghanistan
(John Edmundson, 2010, Workers Party of New Zealand)
Social Movements and Extra-Parliamentary Politics
Environmentalism and the Anti-Nuclear Movement
Standing Upright Here: New Zealand in the Nuclear Age, 1945-1990
(Malcolm Templeton, 2006, Victoria University Press)
Back from the Brink: The Creation of a Nuclear-Free New Zealand
(Kevin Clements, 1988, Bridget Williams Books)
Seeds of Distrust
(Nicky Hager, 2002, Craig Potton Publishing)
Secrets & Lies
(Nicky Hager and Bob Burton, 1999, Common Courage Press)
Fri Alert
(Elsa Caron, 1974, Caveman Press)
The Occupy Movement
Occupy Christchurch: In Our Own Words
(Byron C Clark, 2021)
Youth Culture and Politics
Teenagers: The Rise of Youth Culture in New Zealand
(Chris Brickell, 2017, Auckland University Press)
Republicanism
Republicanism in New Zealand
(Luke Trainor, 1996, Dunmore Publishing)
New Zealand Republic
(Alan Whelan & Barrie Cook, 1997, Niu Pacific)
The 1981 Springbok Tour and the Anti-Apartheid Movement
1981: The Tour
(Geoff Chapple, 1984, AH & AW Reed)
By Batons and Barbed Wire
(Tom Newnham, 1981, Real Pictures Ltd)
Dancing on Our Bones: New Zealand, South Africa, Rugby and Racism
(Trevor Lawson Richards, 1999, Bridget Williams Books)
Apartheid is Not a Game: The Inside Story of New Zealand’s Struggle Against Apartheid Sport
(Thomas Oliver Newnham, 1975, Graphic Publications)
When the Tour Came to Auckland
(Geoff Chapple, 2014, Bridget Williams Books)
Babes in Verwoerds: Two New Zealanders in South Africa
(Jeya Wilson & Peter Utting, 1982, Price Milburn)
Poata: Seeing Beyond the Horizon
(Tama Poata, 2012, Steele Roberts)
The Radical Right
Politics of Nostalgia: racism & the extreme right in NZ
(Paul Spoonley, 1987, Dunmore Press)
1981: The Tour
(Geoff Chapple, 1984, AH & AW Reed)
Revival of the Right: New Zealand Politics In The 1980s
(Bruce Jesson, Paul Spoonley and Allanah Ryan; 1988; Heinemann Reed)
Everyone Wants to be Fuehrer: national socialism in Australia and New Zealand
(David Harcourt, 1972, Angus and Robertson)
Social Credit Inside & Out
(Michael Sheppard, 1981)
Mobilising the Masses: Populist Conservative Movements in Australia and New Zealand During the Great Depression
(Matthew Cunningham, 2022, ANU Press)
Histories of Hate: The Radical Right in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Matthew Cunningham, Marinus La Rooij & Paul Spoonley; 2022; Otago University Press)
The Healthcare System
Health and Society
The Dark Island: Leprosy in New Zealand and the Quail Island Colony
(Benjamin Kingsbury, 2019, Bridget Williams Books)
Black November: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in New Zealand
(Geoffrey Rice, 2005, Canterbury University Press)
A Turned on World: Drug Use in NZ
(C. R. Henwood, 1971, Hicks Smith)
Māori Health and Government Policy 1840-1940
(Derek A. Dow, 1999, Victoria University Press)
Abortion Then and Now: New Zealand Abortion Stories from 1940 to 1980
(Margaret Sparrow, 2010, Victoria University Press)
Rocking the Cradle: Contraception, Sex and Politics in New Zealand
(Helen Smyth, 2000, Steele Roberts)
Risking Their Lives: New Zealand Abortion Stories 1900-1939
(Margaret Sparrow, 2017, Victoria University Press)
Rough on Women: Abortion in Nineteenth Century New Zealand
(Margaret Sparrow, 2014, Victoria University Press)
Drug Policy and Use
A Turned on World: Drug Use in NZ
(C. R. Henwood, 1971, Hicks Smith)
Parliamentary Politics
The Labour Party
The Truth About Labour: A bosses’ party
(Daphna Whitmore and Philip Ferguson, 2006, Revolutionary Workers League)
Fragments of Labour
(Bruce Jesson, 1989, Penguin)
The New Zealand Labour Party, 1916-2016
(Peter Franks and Jim McAloon, 2017, Victoria University Press)
John A. Lee
(Erik Olssen, 1977, University of Otago Press)
The Scrim-Lee Papers: C. G. Scrimgeour and John A. Lee Remember the Crisis Years 1930-40
(Tony Simpson, 1976, A. H. & A. W. Reed)
New Zealand labour’s pioneering days: the history of the labour movement in N.Z. from 1840 to 1894
(J. D. Salmond, 1950, Forward Press)
Labour’s Path to Political Independence: Origins and Establishment of the New Zealand Labour Party, 1900-19
(Barry Gustafson, 2013, Auckland University Press)
Neoliberal Labour Governments and the Union Response: The Politics of the End of Labourism
(J. Schulman, 2015, Springer)
The Rise of New Zealand Labour: A History of the New Zealand Labour Party from 1916 to 1940
(Bruce Brown, 1962, Price Milburn)
New Zealand’s Labor government at work
(WB Sutch, 1940, League for Industrial Democracy)
The Fire Last Time: The Rise of Class Struggle and Progressive Social Movements in Aotearoa, 1968-1977
(Brian Roper, 2012, International Socialist Organisation)
On the Left: Essays on Socialism in New Zealand
(Pat Maloney & Kerry Taylor, 2002, Otago University Press)
Stick Out, Keep Left
(Elsie Locke & Jacquie Matthews, 1997, Auckland University Press)
She Dared to Speak: Connie Birchfield’s story
(Maureen Birchfield, 1998, University of Otago Press)
Bread and Roses: Sonja Davies Her Story
(Sonja Davies, 1984, Australia and Zealand Book Company)
Marching On
(Sonja Davies, 1997, Random House)
The Fourth Labour Government: Radical Politics in New Zealand
(Jonathan Boston & Martin Holland, 1987, Oxford University Press)
A Lifetime in Politics: The Memoirs of Warren Freer
(Warren Freer, 2004, Victoria University Press)
The Rise of New Zealand Labour: A History of the New Zealand Labour Party 1916 to 1940
(Bruce Brown, 1962, Price Milburn)
Humanism in Politics: New Zealand Labour Party in Retrospect
(John Thomas Paul, 1946, New Zealand Worker Printing and Publishing)
Keeping the Party in Tune: How Politics and Music Shaped My Life
(Graham Kelly, 2023, Kelly Publications)
Political Notebooks
(John A. Lee, 1973, A. Taylor)
The John A. Lee Diaries 1936-1940
(John A. Lee, 1981, Whitcoulls)
Holding the Balance: A History of New Zealand’s Department of Labour 1891-1995
(John Martin, 1996, Canterbury University Press)
The Liberal Party
The New Zealand Liberals: The Years of Power, 1891–1912
(David Hamer, 1988, Auckland University Press)
Three Party Politics in New Zealand, 1911–1931
(Michael Bassett, 1982, Historical Publications)
William Pember Reeves: New Zealand Fabian
(Keith Sinclair, 1965, Clarendon Press)
Holding the Balance: A History of New Zealand’s Department of Labour 1891-1995
(John Martin, 1996, Canterbury University Press)
The National Party
The First 50 Years: A History of the New Zealand National Party
(Barry Gustafson, 1986, Reed Methuen)
The Hollow Men
(Nicky Hager, 2006, Potton & Burton Limited)
Dirty Politics
(Nicky Hager, 2014, Potton & Burton Limited)
The Rise and Fall of a Young Turk
(Rob Muldoon, 1974, A. H. & A. W. Reed)
My Way
(Rob Muldoon, 1981, A. H. & A. W. Reed)
Muldoon
(Rob Muldoon, 1977, A. H. & A. W. Reed)
His Way: A Biography of Robert Muldoon
(Barry Gustafson, 2000, Auckland University Press)
NewLabour and the Alliance
Matt McCarten: Rebel in the Ranks
(Cathy Casey, 2002, Random House)
Anderton: His Life and Times
(David Grant, 2022, Te Herenga Waka University Press)
A Gentle Radical: The Life of Jeanette Fitzsimons
(Gareth Hughes, 2022, Allen & Unwin)
The Green Party
Constant Radical: The Life and Times of Sue Bradford
(Jenny Chamberlain, 2017, Fraser Books)
A Gentle Radical: The Life of Jeanette Fitzsimons
(Gareth Hughes, 2022, Allen & Unwin)
Culture, Literature, and Media
Auto/Biographical Works
Never a White Flag: The Memoirs of Jock Barnes
(Jock Barnes, 1998, Victoria University Press)
Break Down These Bars Jim Edwards
(David Ballantyne, 1987)
John A. Lee
(Erik Olssen, 1977, University of Otago Press)
The Scrim-Lee Papers: C. G. Scrimgeour and John A. Lee Remember the Crisis Years 1930-40
(Tony Simpson, 1976, A. H. & A. W. Reed)
Tom Barker and the IWW
(E. C. Fry, 1999, Industrial Workers of the World)
Remains to be Seen: Tracing Joe Hill’s ashes in New Zealand
(Jared Davidson, 2011, Rebel Press)
Stick Out, Keep Left
(Elsie Locke & Jacquie Matthews, 1997, Auckland University Press)
She Dared to Speak: Connie Birchfield’s story
(Maureen Birchfield, 1998, University of Otago Press)
Dear Neil Roberts
(Airini Beautrais, 2014, Victoria University Press)
Petals and Bullets: Dorothy Morris – New Zealand Nurse in the Spanish Civil War
(Mark Derby, 2015, Sussex Academic Press)
Sewing Freedom: Philip Josephs, Transnationalism & Early New Zealand Anarchism
(Jared Davidson, 2013, AK Press)
Along for the Ride: A Political Memoir
(Tony Simpson, 2017, Blythswood Press)
Dick Scott: A Radical Writer’s Life
(Dick Scott, 2004, Reed Books)
Matt McCarten: Rebel in the Ranks
(Cathy Casey, 2002, Random House)
Bread and Roses: Sonja Davies Her Story
(Sonja Davies, 1984, Australia and Zealand Book Company)
Marching On
(Sonja Davies, 1997, Random House)
White-collar Radical: Dan Long and the rise of the white-collar unions
(Mark Derby, 2013, Craig Potton Publishing)
Waiting for the Revolution
(James Edwards, 1998, David Ling Publishing)
Comrade Bill Anderson: A Communist, Working-Class Life
(Cybèle Locke, 2022, Bridget Williams Books)
Rewi Alley: An Autobiography
(Rewi Alley, 1987, New World Press)
William Pember Reeves: New Zealand Fabian
(Keith Sinclair, 1965, Clarendon Press)
Anderton: His Life and Times
(David Grant, 2022, Te Herenga Waka University Press)
The Cooks and Stewards Union: A Memoir
(Gerry Hill, 2018)
Man for all Seasons: The Life and Times of Ken Douglas
(David Grant, 2010, Random House)
Keeping the Party in Tune: How Politics and Music Shaped My Life
(Graham Kelly, 2023, Kelly Publications)
Political Notebooks
(John A. Lee, 1973, A. Taylor)
The John A. Lee Diaries 1936-1940
(John A. Lee, 1981, Whitcoulls)
Guerilla Surgeon: A New Zealand Surgeon’s Wartime Experiences with the Yugoslav Partisans
(Lindsay Rogers, 1957, Collins)
Constant Radical: The Life and Times of Sue Bradford
(Jenny Chamberlain, 2017, Fraser Books)
A Gentle Radical: The Life of Jeanette Fitzsimons
(Gareth Hughes, 2022, Allen & Unwin)
Where Giants Dwell: A Sailor’s Tale
(Gerry Evans, 1999, David Ling)
Gordon Watson, New Zealander, 1912-45: His Life and Writings
(Elsie Locke, 1949, Communist Party of New Zealand)
Student at the Gates
(Elsie Locke, 1981, Whitcoulls)
Looking for Answers: A Life of Elsie Locke
(Maureen Birchfield, 2009, Canterbury University Press)
Poata: Seeing Beyond the Horizon
(Tama Poata, 2012, Steele Roberts)
John Mulgan and the Greek Left: A Regrettably Intimate Acquaintance
(C. Dimitris Gounelas & Ruth Parkin-Gounelas, 2023, Victoria University Press)
Media
Between the Lines: Racism and the New Zealand Media
(Paul Spoonley & Walter Hirsh, 1990, Heinemann Reed)
The Fourth Eye: Māori Media in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Brendan Hokowhitu and Vijay Devadas, 2013, University of Minnesota Press)
Re-Inventing New Zealand: Essays on the Arts and the Media
(Roger Horrocks, 2016, Atuanui Press)
Politics and the Media
(Chris Rudd, Geoff Kemp, Babak Bahador, Kate McMillan; 2016; Auckland University Press)
Don’t Dream It’s Over: Reimagining Journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Emma Johnson, Sarah Illingworth, Giovanni Tiso, Barnaby W. Bennett; 2016; Freerange Press)
Truth: The Rise & Fall of the People’s Paper
(Redmer Yska, 2010, Craig Potton Publishing)
The Making of the New Zealand Press 1840-1880
(Patrick Day, 1990, Victoria University Press)
We Will Work With You: Wellington Media Collective 1978-1998
(Mark Derby, Jenny Rouse, and Ian Wedde; 2013; Victoria University Press)
Art and Culture
A Popular Vision: The Arts and the Left in New Zealand 1930-1950
(Rachel Barrowman, 1991, Victoria University Press)
Never a Soul at Home: New Zealand Literary Nationalism and the 1930’s
(Stuart Murray, 1998, Victoria University Press)
Some Justice: Political Poems and Lyrics
(Ken Vicious, 2011, Rebel Press)
Re-Inventing New Zealand: Essays on the Arts and the Media
(Roger Horrocks, 2016, Atuanui Press)
We Will Work With You: Wellington Media Collective 1978-1998
(Mark Derby, Jenny Rouse, and Ian Wedde; 2013; Victoria University Press)
Needles and Plastic: Flying Nun Records 1981-1988
(Matthew Goody, 2022, Auckland University Press)
Where Did She Come From? New Zealand Women Novelists 1862-1987
(Heather Roberts, 1989, Allen & Unwin)
Ralph Hotere: Out the Black Window
(Gregory O’Brien, 1997, Random House)
Poata: Seeing Beyond the Horizon
(Tama Poata, 2012, Steele Roberts)
Documentary
151 (2001)
A Century of Struggle (1981)
A Civilised Society (2006)
A Double Standard (1994)
A Nuclear Free Pacific (1988)
Aramoana: There Is No Smelter (2006)
Backroom Troubles (1997)
Banned – A History of Censorship in New Zealand (1994)
Bastion Point: Day 507 (1980)
Bastion Point – The Untold Story (1999)
Chinks, Coconuts, and Curry-Munchers (2002)
Children of the Revolution (2007)
Cinema of Unease (1995)
Dawn Raids (2005)
Georgie Girl (2001)
Gung Ho – Rewi Alley of China (1980)
Hiking – The Land March (2016)
Hip Hop New Zealand (2003)
Hotu Painu (1988)
In a Land of Plenty (2002)
Intersexion (2012)
I Spy (with my Five Eyes) (2016)
Islands of the Empire (1985)
Kinleith ’80 (1983)
Land of a Thousand Lovers (1977)
Mani’s Story (2002)
Mururoa 1973 (1973)
New Faces Old Fears (2004)
Nuclear Reaction (1995)
On the Road with Red Mole (1979)
Operation 8: Deep in the Forest (2011)
Our Nuclear Defense (1976)
Patu! (1983)
Rebels in Retrospect (1991)
Sale of a Nation (1991)
Sedition – The Suppression of Dissent in World War II New Zealand (2005)
Someone Else’s Country (1996)
Start Again (1972)
Syd Jackson: Life and Times of a Fully Fledged Activist (2003)
Tame Iti – The Man Behind the Moko (2005)
Tatarakihi The Children of Parihaka (2012)
Te Matakite o Aotearoa – The Māori Land March (1975)
The 5th Eye (2015)
The Hatred Campaign (1985)
The Hollow Men (2008)
The New Zealand Wars (docu-series, 1998)
The Price of Peace (2015)
The Women of Pike River (2015)
Then Again – Strongman Mine (1986)
When a Warrior Dies (1991)
Wildcat: The Struggle for Democracy in the New Zealand Timberworkers’ Union (1981)
Writing on the Wall (1981)
Film
Environment 1990 (1972)
Sleeping Dogs (1977)
The Dominant Species (1985)
The Maintenance of Silence (1985)
The Terrorist (1993)
Notes South from Nowhere 