Paul Star European New Zealanders have always been unsure how to deal with the western side of South Island, most of which is remote, mountainous and forested. It has never…
Review: Going Bush: New Zealanders and Nature in the Twentieth Century
Review: Kirstie Ross, Going Bush: New Zealanders and Nature in the Twentieth Century, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 2008. Paul Star Harry Orsman, in his Dictionary of New Zealand English (1997),…
Latter day ‘Imperial Careering’: L.M. Ellis – A Canadian forester in Australia and New Zealand, 1920-1941
Mike Roche Canadian born University of Toronto forestry graduate L.M. (McIntosh)[1] Ellis was appointed as the first Director of Forests in the (New Zealand) State Forest Service in 1920, a…
Exploring Trans-Tasman Environmental Connections, 1850s-1900s through the imperial ‘careering’ of Alfred Sharpe
James BeattieUniversity of Waikato As Libby Robin and Tom Griffiths observe, Australians and New Zealanders have tended to keep their backs turned to the Tasman Sea, preferring instead to foster…
Trans-Tasman Meteorology and the Production of a Tasman Airspace, 1920-1940
Matthew Henry[1] Massey University Abstract On 10-11 September 1928, the Southern Cross crewed by Charles Kingsford Smith, Charles TP Ulm, HA Lichfield and TH McWilliam successfully crossed the Tasman Sea….
Environmental history and New Zealand history
Paul Star[1] I practise environmental history. I have found that this kind of history is still often poorly understood by other historians, as well as by New Zealanders in general….