A bloody difficult subject : Ruth Ross, Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the making of history / Bain Attwood.

By:

Attwood, Bain [author.]

Material type: Text

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

1869409825
9781869409821

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Contents:

Part 1: Ruth Ross --The Government Printer -- School Publications -- The New Zealand Journal of History -- Part 2: Te Tiriti -- Reading 'Te Tiriti o Waitangi' -- The Waitangi Tribunal, the legal scholars and the historians -- Part 3: History -- Politics, public history and juridicial history -- Revisionist histories -- The advantages and disadvantages of history.

Summary: "Ruth Ross is hardly a household name, yet most New Zealanders today owe the way they understand the Treaty of Waitangi - or te Tiriti o Waitangi as Ross called it - to this remarkable woman's path-breaking historical research. Taking us on a journey from small university classes and a lively government department in the nation's war-time capital to an economically poor but culturally rich Maori community in the far north, and from tiny schools and cloistered university offices to parliamentary committees and a legal tribunal, Attwood enables us to grasp how and why the place of the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand law, politics, society and culture has been transformed in the last seven decades. A frank and moving meditation on the making of history and its advantages and disadvantages for life in a democratic society, A Bloody Difficult Subject is a surprising story full of unforeseen circumstances, unexpected twists, unlikely turns and unanticipated outcomes."--Publisher's description.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	DISPLAY 993 ATT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	A562805B
Book	North Campus North Campus Main Collection	993 ATT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	A562806B
Book	South Campus South Campus Main Collection	993 ATT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	A537116B

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"Ruth Ross is hardly a household name, yet most New Zealanders today owe the way they understand the Treaty of Waitangi - or te Tiriti o Waitangi as Ross called it - to this remarkable woman's path-breaking historical research. Taking us on a journey from small university classes and a lively government department in the nation's war-time capital to an economically poor but culturally rich Maori community in the far north, and from tiny schools and cloistered university offices to parliamentary committees and a legal tribunal, Attwood enables us to grasp how and why the place of the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand law, politics, society and culture has been transformed in the last seven decades. A frank and moving meditation on the making of history and its advantages and disadvantages for life in a democratic society, A Bloody Difficult Subject is a surprising story full of unforeseen circumstances, unexpected twists, unlikely turns and unanticipated outcomes."--Publisher's description.

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