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The Kadazans and Sabah Politics

Luping, Herman James (Victoria University of Wellington, 1985)

The Kadazans - the indigenous non-Muslim tribal people of what was North Borneo under Chartered Company rule and is now Sabah, a state of Malaysia - have for the most part throughout their history been governed by others ...
Ka Mua, Ka Muri-Walking Backwards into the Future: An Environmental History of the South Wairarapa Region 1984-2016

Rainford, Eleanor Jane (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

‘Ka mua, ka muri’, Walking backwards into the future, is a Māori proverb that aptly describes the findings of this thesis. That we should look to the past to inform the future is arguably the purpose of history, yet we ...
Knowledge-making Endeavours of the Dutch East India Company in Malabar, 1663-1795

Gopurapillil Muralidharan, Meera (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)

The Malabar Coast of south-western India, presently comprising the modern state of Kerala, played a unique role in the history of Indian Ocean trade in the early modern period. Of the spices involved in expanding trade ...
Korero Pukapuka, Talking Books: Reading in Reo Māori in the Long Nineteenth Century

Driver-Burgess, Frith (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

The introduction of reading to New Zealand by missionaries in 1815 was a catalyst for enormous change in how Māori communicated and recorded information. Reading was quickly adopted by Māori, who learned in mission schools ...
The Labour Party after 75 years

Clark, Margaret (Victoria University of Wellington, 1992)

The 75th anniversary of the founding of the New Zealand Labour Party occurred in 1991. Needless to say the party itself was not in a notably celebratory mood, having just suffered a huge electoral defeat and all that that ...
Ladies of Empire: Governors' Wives in New Zealand, 1887-1926

Burgess, Sarah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Across the years 1887 to 1926, at a time when the British Empire was at its height, nine governors and their wives took up vice-regal office in New Zealand. This study is concerned with the public enactment of the position ...
"Lady Alcumy": Elizabethan Gentlewomen and the Practice of Chymistry

Latham, Sienna Louise (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

This thesis explores the advent of gentlewomen's chymical activities in Elizabethan England. In the sixteenth century, chymistry gained widespread currency under Queen Elizabeth I. This thesis argues that the queen's ...
Language-Games in the Later Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein

Sinclair, Michael Benjamin Warren (Victoria University of Wellington, 1974)

1.1 When I first looked, into Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations I felt not so much that this was great work, but that it was alive and exciting, a going concern. I next learned of its difficulty; it seemed to me ...
The letters of French and German soldiers in World War One

Sippel, Rebekka (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

This thesis uses letters written by French and German soldiers to investigate the mobilization of masculinity during World War One 1914-1918. Through the letters of French and German soldiers of World War One, the thesis ...
Let Them Eat Cake: Gender, Nationalism and Tyranny in Revolutionary France and Russia

Eldred-Grigg, Hugh (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

The origin of the phrase ‘let them eat cake’ is obscure. Conversely, it is widely understood that the woman whose name is most associated with the phrase, Marie Antoinette, the last pre-revolutionary Queen of France, ...
Liberalism of the Third Force in Republican China: Carsun Chang and Zhang Dongsun

Peng, Lifang (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

This study investigates the liberal thought of Carsun Chang and Zhang Dongsun who were core figures of the “Third Force”, those parties who did not align themselves either with the KMT or with the Communists in the 1940s. ...
Life After Politics? The post-leadership activities of New Zealand premiers and prime ministers, 1856-2008

Booker, Jess (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

Political leadership has been a nebulous concept in New Zealand, one that has grown and changed as we have matured as a nation. Scholarship on political leadership in New Zealand has also matured, particularly over the ...
The Life of Language: Saussure and Evolution

Gilchrist, Michael (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

The stimulus for this thesis came from a quite unexpected source. Originally I embarked on a comparative study of the two philosophers primarily responsible for the divergence of the Continental and Anglo-American ...
Lighting Up: the Social History of Smoking in New Zealand c.1920-1962

Johnston, Susie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

The period 1920-1962 saw a significant increase in tobacco consumption in New Zealand. This period was one in which there was an expansion of the tobacco industry, tobacco consumers and smoking as a part of modern society. ...
Liverpool and the Raw Cotton Trade: A Study of the Port and its Merchant Community, 1770-1815

Krichtal, Alexey (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

This thesis examines the port of Liverpool, its merchant community, and the growth of the raw cotton trade from its initial rise c. 1770 to the end of the Napoleonic period in 1815. By constructing a large database from ...
Logic-Based Conflict Analysis and Resolution

Lempp, David Frieder Georg (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

The aim of this thesis is to explore the extent to which formal logic can be applied to the topic of conflict analysis and conflict resolution. It is motivated by the idea that conflicts can be understood as inconsistent ...
Logic of Appropriateness or Logic of Consequence? Competing Explanations for the OECD Campaign against Tax Havens

Wood, Melinda (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

This thesis provides an alternative explanation to existing constructivist accounts of the OECD campaign against tax havens. It reinterprets the OECD project through a neoliberal institutionalist lens and offers a different ...
Looking Up from Down Under: New Zealand’s best options amid China’s rise and the U.S. foreign policy rebalance to the Asia-Pacific

Friesen, Ryan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

With the rise of China and the United States (US) foreign policy rebalance to the Asia-Pacific meeting in international space, small states like New Zealand have decisions to make about how to manage their balancing act ...
Loose Credit and Low Wages: A Re-examination of US Postwar Economic History in Light of the Recent Recession

Jones, Richard Henry (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

The protracted nature of the current global economic downturn, beginning in late 2007 with the crash of the US credit markets and continuing on into today, suggests that a wider range of policy responses are now required ...
Lost in translation: a comparative analysis of developing regions' receptions of the responsibility to protect norm

Gnoth, Aidan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

The way in which different regions are receiving the international norm of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has been attracting increasing attention within academia in recent years, most notably after the NATO led ...