A First Year in Canterbury Settlement
Author | : Samuel Butler |
Publisher | : London : J. Cape ; New York : E.P. Dutton |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Canterbury (N.Z. : Provincial District) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Samuel Butler |
Publisher | : London : J. Cape ; New York : E.P. Dutton |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Canterbury (N.Z. : Provincial District) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Henry Thomas Purchas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Bishops |
ISBN | : |
Henry John Chitty Harper was born in 1804 in Gosport, Southampton, England and married Emily Wooldridge in 1829. They immigrated to Canterbury, New Zealand in 1856 and he died in 1893.
Author | : Canterbury Association for Founding a Settlement in New Zealand |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1850 |
Genre | : Canterbury (N.Z.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Wilfrid R. Prest |
Publisher | : UNSW Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Actions and defenses |
ISBN | : 9780868405506 |
Litigation does not have a good press - in fact, it is usually viewed very negatively. Rates of litigation in Western countries are claimed to be spiralling beyond control, and this is said to indicate a fundamental crisis in contemporary Western societies. "Litigation: Past and Present" sheds some much-needed light on these views, by examining actual patterns of litigation, both historical and contemporary, and considering the many ways in which courts provide strategies for social change and social justice. Topics surveyed include the long-range recording of litigation rates, the social uses of legal action, the effectiveness of procedural reforms in reducing litigation, and the impact of legal proceedings and activism on Indigenous rights, and on marriage and family issues. Litigation and its impact are too often discussed in excessively rhetorical and pragmatic terms. This volume, with contributions from internationally recognised scholars, adds much needed empirical research and theoretical perspectives to the discussion.
Author | : Katie Pickles |
Publisher | : Bridget Williams Books |
Total Pages | : 103 |
Release | : 2016-03-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0908321309 |
The devastating earthquake that hit Christchurch in 2011 did more than rupture the surface of the city, argues historian Katie Pickles. It created a definitive endpoint to a history shaped by omission, by mythmaking, and by ideological storytelling. In this multi-layered BWB Text, Pickles uncovers what was lost that February day, drawing out the different threads of Christchurch’s colonial history and demonstrating why we should not attempt to knit them back together. This is an incisive analysis of the way a city’s character is interlinked with its geo-spatial appearance: when the latter changes, so too must the former.
Author | : Samuel Butler |
Publisher | : Erewhon Books |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2022-10-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1645660508 |
A utopian classic with a rich legacy–influencing authors from Huxley to Herbert and beyond–Erewhon satirizes Victorian society with biting insight still relevant today. When Higgs, a young traveler, stumbles upon the beautiful land of Erewhon, he soon discovers that its seemingly ideal culture is founded upon bizarre, unsettling beliefs. Crime is a sickness, while sickness is a crime; the greatest scholarly achievement is unreason, and all machines have been eliminated for fear of artificial intelligence. In a society that suppresses originality, the traveler and his values are a threat. Torn between escape and Arowhena, the woman he has grown to love, Higgs must contend with Erewhon's strange ways–and with the challenges they pose to his own beliefs. Engaging with the work of Charles Darwin and inspired by the author’s time in colonial New Zealand, Erewhon is a bright, irreverent, and enduring text about technology, religion, crime, and institutional rigidity. This new edition of the 1872 classic arrives in honor of its 150th anniversary, featuring a brilliant introduction contextualizing the book from one of New Zealand’s great academic thinkers in science fiction, Dr. Octavia Cade.
Author | : Michael D. Jackson |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2018-04-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0231546440 |
What does it mean to live in time, between the unforeseeable and the irreversible? In The Varieties of Temporal Experience, Michael Jackson demonstrates the significance of a phenomenology of time for ethnography, philosophy, and history through a multifaceted consideration of the gap between our cultural representations of temporality and the bewildering multiplicity of our experience of being-in-time. Jackson explores temporality in a subjective mode as a form of literary anthropology. The first part of the book tells the story of John Joseph Pawelka, whose 1910 escape from prison and subsequent disappearance became one of New Zealand’s great unsolved mysteries, discussing what it reveals about the interplay of popular stories, hidden histories, and media narratives in constructing allegories of national and moral identity. In the second, Jackson reflects on journeys up and down the islands of New Zealand, touching on the ways that personal stories are interwoven with social and historical events. Throughout this groundbreaking book, Jackson juxtaposes philosophy, history, and ethnography in an attempt to do justice to the extraordinary variety of temporal experience, at the same time exploring the ethical and existential quandaries that arise from the complexity of lived time.