Maori and European New Zealanders are currently engaged in intense debate about their relationship. Inevitably, part of this debate focuses on the past, in particular on the mid-nineteenth century when European colonization ...

This historical study traces the environment of regulated financial disclosure in Britain since the mid-nineteenth century. In particular, it attempts to trace the evolutionary or developmental nature of accounting measurement ...

The broad contention of this thesis, that Puritanism is a dominant social, cultural, and literary influence in New Zealand, is supported by statements made by a range of social historians, popular polemical writers, and ...

The vast majority of goldfield fiction written in New Zealand during the nineteenth and early twentieth-century was by men. The thesis studies these texts (plus one chapter on women writers and the goldfields) primarily ...