The Ideal Society and Its Enemies
The Ideal Society and Its Enemies

Author: Miles Fairburn

Publisher: Auckland University Press

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 177558187X

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In this challenging and provocative study of the nature of settler society in 19th-century New Zealand, Fairburn focuses on the lives of the common people and presents a rigorous and original description of the place and time which is radically different from those of previous historians. An important book that will have a major impact on our understanding of New Zealand's past, it is also a significant contribution to the study of new societies.

Justice, Ethics, and New Zealand Society
Justice, Ethics, and New Zealand Society

Author: Graham Oddie

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 9780195582413

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A group of philosophers from, or connected with, New Zealand, discuss a variety of issues relating to the territory. These include moral issues relating to the Treaty of Waitangi, sovereignty, collective responsibility, and the value of an ecosystem.

Exploring Society
Exploring Society

Author: Gregor McLennan

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 2003-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781877258749

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An introductory text for New Zealand tertiary students examining major themes in contemporary sociology such as health, gender, ethnicity and culture.

A Punitive Society
A Punitive Society

Author: John Pratt

Publisher: Bridget Williams Books

Published: 2013-12-10

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 1927277272

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‘New Zealand has one of the highest levels of imprisonment in the Western world. Yet the growth of imprisonment in New Zealand has occurred when the crime rate here, as in most other Western societies, has been in significant decline. Why, then, the disjuncture?’ In this penetrating BWB Text, John Pratt describes the dramatic transformation in penal thought that has recently taken place in this country. Rising imprisonment in New Zealand, against the background of a falling crime rate, is connected with changes in how we, as a society, think about the purpose and function of punishment. This growth of ‘penal populism’, Pratt asserts, has caused enormous and lasting damage to New Zealand’s social fabric.

New Zealand And The World: Past, Present And Future
New Zealand And The World: Past, Present And Future

Author: Robert G Patman

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2017-12-28

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 9813232412

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The aim of this book is to provide the reader with an overview of New Zealand's international relations. It is a country that has often shown an international presence that is out of proportion to the modest spectrum of national economic, military and diplomatic capabilities at its disposal.In this volume, the editors have called upon a range of specialists representing a range of views drawn from the worlds of academia, policy-making, and civil society. It is an attempt to present a rounded picture of New Zealand's place in the world, one that does not rely exclusively on any particular perspective. The book does not claim to be exhaustive. But it does seek to present a more wide-ranging treatment of New Zealand's foreign relations than has generally been the case in the past.Five broad themes help shape and organize the contributions to the text:

Fairness and Freedom
Fairness and Freedom

Author: David Hackett Fischer

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2012-02-10

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 0199832706

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From one of America's preeminent historians comes a magisterial study of the development of open societies focusing on the United States and New Zealand