Migration, Ethnicity, and Madness (Migrations and Identities, #5)
by Angela McCarthy
This book provides a social, cultural, and political history of migration, ethnicity, and madness in New Zealand between 1860 and 1910. Its key aim is to analyse the ways that patients, families, asylum officials, and immigration authorities engaged with the ethnic backgrounds and migration histories and pathways of asylum patients and why. Exploring such issues enables us to appreciate the difficulties that some migrants experienced in their relocation abroad, hardships that are often elided in...
Production Flow Analysis for Planning Group Technology (Oxford Series on Advanced Manufacturing, #8)
by John L. Burbidge
This book is being reissued in paperback to coincide with the publication of Burbidge's new book, Period Batch Control. In recent years there has been much effort directed towards a critical examination and reappraisal of traditional methods in manufacturing plants. Group technology and production flow analysis have emerged from this reappraisal as one of the major strategic tools available to manufacturing analysts. Instead of basing the classification and coding of parts into families by analy...
A detailed study of the 19th-century Irish Catholic immigrants in Christchurch. The text explores issues of ethnicity, kinship and community in colonial contexts, and makes comparisons to the North American experience. It uses a variety of government, local body and church records to track individuals and families, and to show how they adjusted to a new environment by forging durable social networks based on ethnic ties.
"New Zealand's past has been a rollercoaster ride of hopes, dreams, wars and peace." In his fully revised Illustrated History, noted historian Matthew Wright brings New Zealand's turbulent, exciting past to life, tracing our journey from the arrival of Polynesians over 800 years ago, to the discovery by Europe, race relations, jingoism, devastating world wars, the age of the pavlova paradise, the turbulence of the Springbok tour protests and beyond. Nearly 600 paintings, maps, sketches and photo...
R. G. Menzies Scholarships to Harvard 1968-2010
Transcending the Culture-Nature Divide in Cultural Heritage (Terra Australis)
The New Zealand Official Yearbook, 1898, Vol. 7 (Classic Reprint)
by E J Von Dadelszen
Half a Century of Australasian Progress, a Personal Retrospect
by William Westgarth