'It's a type of reorganization or infection of humanity's thought system, the way humanity talks to itself, the way a society thinks. It's like everyone simultaneously is taking LSD.' Julian Assange 'No one is more hopelessly enslaved than those who think they're free.' Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ever since Edward Snowden's NSA disclosures, the might of the secret services and the helplessness of everyday citizens are there all around us for everyone to see. But who is taking up the fight ...

'Whistleblower, Internetaktivisten, Coder, Cyberpunks, Geeks. Es sind die Nerds, die derzeit die Kultur der Welt bewegen. Sie haben uns die Augen geöffnet, uns aufgeklärt im besten und wörtlichsten Sinne eines westlichen Wertesystems.' Angela Richter Für ihr neues Projekt "Die Avantgarde der Supernerds" hat die Theaterregisseurin Angela Richter ausführliche Interviews mit den Whistleblowern und Netzaktivisten Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Daniel Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers), Jesselyn Radac...

A tale of the wild west, of gunfighters, of bounty hunters, of satanic forces, of the fight between good and evil – and maybe, just maybe, of the Second Coming.Nevada 1869, only four years after the American Civil War had ended, the rule of law was still so often replaced by the rule of the gun.Into one of the small towns clinging tenuously to the rule of law, came a bounty hunter, a man who made his living by delivering outlaws wanted dead or alive to the authorities and co...

Tangata Whenua: A History presents a rich narrative of the Māori past from ancient origins in South China to the twenty-first century, in a handy paperback format. The authoritative text is drawn directly from the award-winning Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History; the full text of the big hardback is available in a reader-friendly edition, ideal for students and for bedtime reading, and a perfect gift for those whose budgets do not stretch to the illustrated edition. Maps and diagrams c...

A long-awaited reprint of a book that has remained in steady demand since publication in 1995.Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki was one of the nineteenth century’s most significant leaders. In both war and peace, he sought to redeem his people and the land. Yet his reputation as a feared opponent of colonial forces obscured his achievements for generations. The causes of Te Kooti’s struggles are larger than personal injustice: he fought a war against land confiscation and illegal land ...

This book is a visual and narrative history of two communities, Māori and Pākehā, during a hundred years of settlement in New Zealand.It reveals how the two cultures saw their history through very different eyes: for Pākehā, it was a story of establishing an ‘English island’ in the Pacific; for Māori, a tale of loss and exclusion. But by setting out these conflicting understandings of the past, the book also seeks to bridge cultural differences through the sharing of knowledge....

Stories Without End is a testament to nearly 40 years of groundbreaking historical research by one of New Zealand’s leading scholars.Sitting alongside her major works including the 2010 Book of the Year, Encircled Lands these essays explore sidepaths and previously unexamined histories. They notably delve into the lives of powerful early Māori figures, including the prophets Rua Kenana and Te Kooti, their wives and their descendants, and the leaders of the Urewera.Binney br...

Foreword by Damon Salesa.'Story telling is an art deep within human nature.' A timely collection of writings on history, from one of Aotearoa New Zealand's most distinguished scholars. These essays bring forth important questions for New Zealand history about autonomy, restoration and power that continue to reverberate today. They also serve as a pathway into the rigorous and imaginative scholarship that characterised Judith Binney's acclaimed historical writing.

The archetypal story of Thomas Kendall, a self-torturing, struggling missionary in nineteenth century New Zealand, is also a remarkable history of cross-cultural experience.Posted to New Zealand in 1814, Kendall was immensely devout but entirely unprepared for dealing with Māori. He nonetheless helped produce the first Māori Grammar, but was hindered by rumours of an affair with a Māori chief’s daughter. Dismissed from his duties in 1823, he continued studying Māori culture until h...

For Europeans during the nineteenth century, the Urewera was a remote wilderness; for those who lived there, it was a sheltering heartland. This history documents the first hundred years of the ‘Rohe Pōtae’ (the ‘encircled lands’ of the Urewera) following European contact.After large areas of land were lost, the Urewera became for a brief period an autonomous district, governed by its own leaders. But in 192122, the Urewera District Native Reserve was abolished in law. Its very exi...

The writing of history will only flourish if there is a vehicle for its publication: such was Sir Keith Sinclair’s vision when he founded The New Zealand Journal of History in 1967. Since then the journal has been the conduit for a flow of remarkable history writing. The Shaping of History brings together a selection of essays from its first 30 years by some of the nation’s best-known historians, including Judith Binney, Tipene O’Regan, Claudia Orange, Barbara Brookes, Alan Ward, Jock Phil...