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Refocusing Ethnographic Museums Through Oceanic Lenses AND Te Papa to Berlin: The Making of Two Museums: Te Papa to Berlin. He interviews cultural specialists at the museum, Kamalu du Preez and Marques Hanalei Marzan, and then interprets their fascinating insights and responses to the collections drawing on his museum language. Gorbey and Schorch are clearly very personable, and their love of museums comes through in all the projects they work on. [Extracted from the article]

We are beginning to appreciate that here too the long-lasting frontier conflict was our most important war, fought for both sovereignty and the ownership and control of a whole continent. By the time the wars came to an end in 1872, O'Malley estimates that 'around 6,000 people had been killed or wounded, over two thirds of them Maori' (3). Until the 1960s it was common for our historians to overlook frontier war and compare our own First Nations with the Maori, the Bantu and the American Indians. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents a review of the book "The New Oxford History of New Zealand," edited by Giselle Byrnes.

A review of the book "Children of Rogernomics. A Neoliberal Generation Leaves School," by Karen Nairn, Jane Higgins, and Judith Sligo, is presented.

The article reviews the book "Home in the Howling Wilderness: Settlers and the Environment in Southern New Zealand" by Peter Holland.

Reviews the book 'Educating Feminists: Life Histories and Pedagogy,' by Sue Middleton.

The article reviews the book "Mad on Radium: New Zealand in the Atomic Age," by Rebecca Priestley.

The article reviews the book "New Zealand’s London: A Colony and Its Metropolis," by Felicity Barnes.

The article reviews the book "New Zealand in the League of Nations: The Beginnings of an Independent Foreign Policy, 1919–1939," by Gerald Chaudron.