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Round about a Pound a Week
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Round about a Pound a Week" by Mrs. Pember Reeves. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
State Experiments in Australia and New Zealand
Published in 1902, Reeves' scholarly account surveys the experimental legislation in Australia and New Zealand during this period.
Eugenics at the Edges of Empire
This volume explores the history of eugenics in four Dominions of the British Empire: New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and South Africa. These self-governing colonies reshaped ideas absorbed from the metropole in accord with local conditions and ideals. Compared to Britain (and the US, Germany, and Scandinavia), their orientation was generally less hereditarian and more populist and agrarian. It also reflected the view that these young and enterprising societies could potentially show Britain the way — if they were protected from internal and external threat. This volume contributes to the increasingly comparative and international literature on the history of eugenics and to several ongoing historiographic debates, especially around issues of race. As white-settler societies, questions related to racial mixing and purity were inescapable, and a notable contribution of this volume is its attention to Indigenous populations, both as targets and on occasion agents of eugenic ideology.
The New Zealand Whisky Book
"From the crudest of firewaters such as Owen McShanes "Chained lightning" to Southland's famous Hokonui which gained a solid reputation in the hands of "Chief" Murdoch McRae and others, the history of illegal whisky distillation in New Zealand is as much a part of our folklore as the tales of American moonshine. Government approved distillation is also part of Stuart Perry's story as he traces the history of legitemate whisky from the days of Howden's in Dunedin and Cawkwells in Auckland in the 1870s (An Auckland whisky actually won a medal at a Vienna International Exhibition of that period). Prohibition and its rise and decline also makes an important and often humorous contribution to the story of New Zealand whisky, and the book culminates with the establishment of two brands of excellent home grown whisky on the market in this country ..." -- Inside front cover.
The Shaping of History
In this collection of essays, writers explore the construction of history within a political process: the changing impact of the Treaty of Waitangi. Judith Binney looks at Maori oral narratives from colonial times, and Angela Ballara reinforces the importance of using Maori language sources.
The Story of New Zealand
Thomson's two-volume account published in 1859, deals with both the Maori and the effects of discovery and settlement by Europeans.
The Cowkeeper's Wish
In the 1840s, a young cowkeeper and his wife arrive in London, England, having walked from coastal Wales with their cattle. They hope to escape poverty, but instead they plunge deeper into it, and the family, ensconced in one of London’s “black holes,” remains mired there for generations. The Cowkeeper’s Wish follows the couple’s descendants in and out of slum housing, bleak workhouses and insane asylums, through tragic deaths, marital strife and war. Nearly a hundred years later, their great-granddaughter finds herself in an altogether different London, in southern Ontario. In The Cowkeeper’s Wish, Kristen den Hartog and Tracy Kasaboski trace their ancestors’ path to Canada, u...
