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Changing Times
Changing Times

Changing Times

New Zealand Since 1945

HISTORY

576 Pages, 6.25 x 9.25

Formats: EPUB, PDF, Trade Paper, Mobipocket

Trade Paper, $44.95 (US $44.95) (CA $53.99)

Publication Date: February 2014

ISBN 9781869407827

Rights: US, CA, UK, EUR, ASIA & ZA

Auckland University Press (Feb 2014)

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Overview

From the “golden weather” of postwar economic growth, through the globalization, economic challenges, and protest of the 1960s and 1970s, to the free market revolution and new immigrants of the 1980s and 1990s and beyond, this account, the most complete and comprehensive history of New Zealand since 1945, illustrates the chronological and social history of the country with the engaging stories of real individuals and their experiences. Leading historians Jennifer Carlyon and Diana Morrow discuss in great depth New Zealand’s move toward nuclear-free status, its embrace of a small-state, free-market ideology, and the seeming rejection of its citizens of a society known for the “worship of averages.” Stories of pirate radio in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf, the first DC8 jets landing at Mangere airport, feminists liberating pubs, public protests over the closing of post offices, and indigenous language nests vividly demonstrate how a postwar society famous around the world for its dull conformity became one of the most ethnically, economically, and socially diverse countries on earth.

Author Biography

Jenny Carlyon is a former teacher, researcher and writer for corporations, and small-business owner, and is now a prominent New Zealand historian. Diana Morrow has worked as an archivist, as an interpretive consultant, researcher, and writer for museums, and as a professional historian for the Waitangi Tribunal and the Office of Treaty Settlements. She is the coeditor of City of Enterprise: Perspectives on Auckland Business History and Jewish Lives in New Zealand. Carlyon and Morrow are the coauthors of A Fine Prospect: A History of Remuera, Meadowbank and St Johns and Urban Village: The Story of Ponsnby, Freemans Bay and St Mary’s Bay.