Title & Author:

At home in New Zealand : houses, history, people / edited by Barbara Brookes.

Publication:

Wellington, N.Z. : Bridget Williams Books, 2000.

Description:

256 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-256).
A sense of place / Barbara Brookes -- At home with the past / Ian Lochhead -- The decay of home life? / Margaret Tennant -- Strangers at the hearth / Charlotte Macdonald -- The European use of Maori art in New Zealand homes c. 1890-1914 / Anna K.C. Petersen -- The European house and garden in New Zealand / Helen M. Leach -- A home in this world? / Lawrence Jones -- The justification for Labour's housing scheme / Penny Isaac and Erik Olssen -- Labour at home / Ben Schrader -- Going up rather than out / Julia Gatley -- Home away / Robin Skinner -- A woman's place? / Louise Shaw -- Sarah Campion and the modern colonial house / Xanthe Howes and Paul Walker -- Book, house, home / Justine Clark and Paul Walker -- Nostalgia for "innocent homely pleasures" / Barbara Brookes.

ISBN:

1877242047 (pbk.)
9781877242045 (pbk.)

Subject:

Housing New Zealand History.
Home New Zealand History.
Architecture, Domestic New Zealand.
Foyer Nouvelle-Zélande Histoire.
Architecture, Domestic.
Home.
Housing.
Manners and customs.
Social conditions.
Logement Nouvelle-Zélande.
Habitations Nouvelle-Zélande.
Hoahoanga whare.
New Zealand Social conditions.
New Zealand Social life and customs.
New Zealand.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Brookes, Barbara L. (Barbara Lesley), 1955-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 230170
Call No.: NA7472 .A86 2000
Status: Available