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Research THESES COMPLETED 2002–2003

The University of

MLitt Sherwood, V. Hare Winiata and the Epsom Murder, 1876. Narrative and Speculation MA Barnes, W. A Cultural History of the Black Death in England and Italy Hyde, C. The Benefit of War? An Investigation into the New Zealand Nurses Who Served Abroad, 1939–1945 Johnson, M. ‘Land of the Wrong White Crowd’: Pakeha Anti-Racist Organisations and Identity Politics in Auckland, 1964–1981 Laurenson, H. ‘Going Up, Going Down!’: The Rise and Fall of Auckland Department Stores, 1920–1960 Mather, F. Negotiating With Neutrality: Britain’s Relations with Spain, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland, 1943–1945 McNamara, H. The Sole Organ of the Irish Race in New Zealand? A Social and Cultural History of the New Zealand Tablet and its Readers, 1898– 1923 Moody, N. The Promotion of New Zealand, 1950–1980 Moore, G. ‘Strangers to the Country’: An Oral History of Vietnamese Identity in Auckland Yamauchi, K. Humanizing the Enemy: Exploring the Humanity of Japanese Soldiers in the Solomons Islands During the Pacific War

University of Canterbury

PhD Ferguson, P. The Making of White New Zealand Policy: Nationalism, Citizenship and the Exclusion of the Chinese, 1880–1920 Lean, J.H. The Secret Lives of Slaves: Berbice, 1819– 1827 Lewis, K. The Mt Cook Group: A Cash Flow Analysis and Business History Reid, M. But By My Spirit: A History of the Charismatic Renewal in , 1960–1985 Smithies, J. Imaging New Zealand: Literacy Critique and Cultural Redefinition, 1940–1983 MA Bloy, L. The Past as it Appeared to those Present: ‘Class’ in the Eye of the Beholder in 1930s and 1940s New Zealand Society Campbell, E. Scottish Identity in Dunedin and Christchurch to c.1920: An Application of the New ‘British History’ to New Zealand Churton, W. Alternative Music in New Zealand, 1981–2001: Definitions, Comparisons, and History RESEARCH 225

Coleman, S. ‘Come over and help us’: White Women, Reform and the Missionary Endeavour in India 1876–1920 Gush, N. Beauty of Health: Cora Wilding and the Sunlight League Kerr, S.D. ‘Good Old Clyde’: Clyde Carr MP, and the Art of Incumbency, 1928–1962 Parsons, G. The Christchurch Community at War 1914– 1918: Society, Discourse and Power

Massey University – Albany

PhD Young, G. Nga Kooti Whenua. The Dynamics of a Colonial Encounter MA Beatson, E. Becoming a Three Tikanga Church: The Bi- Cultural Commission on the Revision of the [Anglican] Church Constitution, 1986–1992 MPhil Tutagalevao, E.J. Establishing Zion in Sauniatu Village: A Historical Analysis of a Latter-Day Saints Gathering in Samoa

Massey University – Palmerston North

MA Logan, J-M. The Wedded Soul: Mystical Marriage in Late Medieval Female Mysticism Towers, R. Land of Milk and . . . Gas? Economic Change and its Social Consequences in 1980s Taranaki School of Mäori Studies

PhD Edwards, W. Te Ihu Waka: The Interface Between Research and Mäori Development Fitzgerald, S. Te Whare Rünanga: The House of Learning MA Hayes, D. Wähine Kaihautü, Wähine Whai Mana. Navigating the Tides of Change: Whakatohea Women and Tribal Socio-Politics MacFarland, A. Te Ähua o te Poroporoaki ki a Ngäi Tühoe

University of Otago

PhD Clarke, A. A Cultural History of Public Holidays and Festivals in Early Colonial Otago Kuzma, J. Landscape Literature and Identity. New Zealand Late Colonial Literature as Environmental Text Mitchell, J. Immigration MA Bagge, M. Clyde High Dam Seal, B. A History of New Zealand Winemakers

Victoria University of Wellington

MA Dewson, E. ‘Agnes, Alex, Mag and I’: Rural Women and Sibling Relationships in New Zealand, 1870s–1930s 226 New Zealand Journal of History, 37, 2 (2003)

RESEARCH ESSAYS/DISSERTATIONS COMPLETED 2002–2003

The University of Auckland

Jeffery, C. Origins, Traditions and Journeys Connected with the Waikato River

Massey University – Albany

Deason, A. The Native Health Nursing Scheme, 1911– 1930 McKeever, H. Houses and the Real Estate Industry Post 1950: Selling the ‘New Zealand Dream’

Massey University – Palmerston North

Bell, R. The Development of a Feminist Historiography in New Zealand, 1970–1999 Duke, A. ‘A Fool’s Paradise’? New Zealand’s Reaction to the Japanese Threat in 1941–1942 Hickey, C. ‘My old frying pan is not coming back to rip the guts out of any New Zealander’: New Zealand Responses to the Sino-Japanese War, July 1937–March 1938 Knowles, H. Promoting Prohibition: The New Zealand Alliance for the Abolition of the Liquor Traffic’s Campaign, 1914–1920 Lane, S. A History of the Waikato Branch, Federation of University Women, 1955–2000 Luxford, S. ‘Partners in the Welfare of the Nation’: The Involvement of Cambridge Women in Local Patriotic Organisations During the Great War Mathieson, H. The Resumption of French Nuclear Testing in 1995 and the Response of New Zealand McIntosh, G. Mother-Christ or Lover-Christ: Masculinity, Sexuality and the Female Image in the Texts of Bernard of Clairvaux, Francis of Assisi and Richard Rolle Ridge, P. ‘The Result is Chaos’: An Examination of the 1891 Royal Commission into Native Land Laws Scarfe, A. Early Maraekakaho Station Ward, J. ‘The Interposing Barrier’: Perceptions and Expectations of the British Army in New Plymouth in 1855

University of Otago

Barton, C. The Empress Matilda in English Historical Writing, 1849–1991 RESEARCH 227

Barton, C. The Decline and Fall of Opera in Otago? The Dunedin Opera Company, 1957–1997 Broadhurst, M. Dunedin Presbyterian Children’s Homes, 1907–1939 Cooper, N. Historical Analysis of the 1981 Springbok Tour of New Zealand with Special Reference to Dunedin Deed, S. ‘A Credit to the City’: The Historical Significance of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Building, Dunedin Heritage, E. Ricoeur on History. An Investigation of the Nature of History as Proposed by Paul Ricoeur in his Time and Narrative Farr, A. Building the Machinery of Peace: New Zealand and the San Francisco Conference Greer, B. The City, Society and Golf at St Clair Greeves, C. ‘Hands off Beaumont’. The ‘Tuapeka’ Dam Controversy Hughes, S. Gender, Advertising and the Feminist Movement in 1970s New Zealand Keenan, L. For God, For King, and For Country? Factors Influencing Recruitment into the 28th (Maori) Battalion Ketchen, M. Changing Stance: National Party Policy on Nuclear Free New Zealand and ANZUS Kitto, L. Unacceptable Risk: An Analysis of the Anti-Nuclear Movement and the Anti-Food Irradiation Movement in New Zealand McKay, W. The Other Class of Women: Maternity Services Available for Destitute Women in Dunedin c.1886–1897 Milne, L. Fiordland — National Park? The Status of Fiordland Before 1952 Persen, E. The Beginnings of the ‘War on Terrorism’ Simpson, J. Te Hapa O Niu Tireni — ‘Left Out of New Zealand’? An Investigation of Maori Interactions with Pakeha in South Canterbury, 1844–1906 Wilson, C. Tatawai, Kai Tahu and the Claim Young, J. Aspects of the Thought of William Thomas Locke Travers

Victoria University of Wellington

Groshinski, L. Historical Fiction as Public History? Nelle Scanlan and the Pencarrow Novels Mercer, R. Local Mining of Nelson and Golden Bay, 1894–1904, with Special Reference to the Establishment of the Puponga Coal Mine O’Brien, R. A Woman’s Place: The Alexandra Home Buildings, 1879–1974 228 New Zealand Journal of History, 37, 2 (2003)

Reilly, H. Electrifying Wellington: How Street Lights and Trams Transformed the Capital, 1901–1930 Swarbrick, N. Conserving to this Land What Properly Belongs to it: The Cultural Significance of the Maori Antiquities Act, 1901

University of Waikato

MA/MSocSc Hapuku, C. The Maori Agricultural College, Hastings, 1913–1931 Kahu, A. From Subsistence Living to Participation in a Monetary Economy: Maori of the Taupo District, 1870–1930

THESES IN PROGRESS

The University of Auckland

PhD Albright, J. New Zealand, Canada and Anglo-French Appeasement in the 1930s Barry, R. New Zealand’s Defence Policy from the Last Years of the First World War to the End of 1975 Braren, A. A Social History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in New Zealand, 1920–1970 Callister, S. Visualising Armageddon: The Iconography of New Zealand in World War I Chapman, S. Gender, Race, Class and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict Day, A. Child Immunisation: Reactions and Responses in New Zealand Government Policy 1925– 1975 Diggelmann, L. Marriage, Inheritance, and the Balance of Power in Twelfth-Century England and France Fortune, G. War and Marriage: War Brides of New Zealand Servicemen During World War Two Frank, T. ‘About Our Father’s Business’: Fatherhood in New Zealand, 1900–1940 Harper, W. The Second Law Harris, A. E Kore e Taea Oranga mo te Tangata i te Aroha me te Pipi Anake: Maori Leadership and Representation, 1945–1975 Hoar, P. Mass Media, Mass Culture and Propaganda in New Zealand, 1914–1918 Jenkins, J. Corporations and the State in New Zealand c.1960–1975 Kolesova, E. Changing Values in Japanese Education: An Historical Study O’Shaughnessy, M. New Zealand and the Spanish Civil War Prebble, K. Psychiatric Nursing in New Zealand, 1945– 1980 RESEARCH 229

Puckey, A. Relationship of Maori to the ‘Pakeha Economy’ Reid, N. A Critical Biography of James Michael Liston Taonui, R. Nga Tatai-Whakapapa: Dynamics in Oral Tradition Twohill, N. Trade and Relations Between New Zealand and the Southern Cone of Latin America Whittle, J. Electricity and the New Zealand Landscape, 1888–1998 Wilcox, M. A Social and Cultural History of Gay Men in Auckland, 1890–1990 Wyatt, P. Maori–Pakeha Relations in Northland, 1810s– 1860s MA Atchison, A. The Role of the Scottish Parliament and Its Relationship with the Court, 1513–1560 Barnes, F. New Zealand’s Londons: The Cultural and Economic Role of the Metropole During the Inter-War Period Black, P. History of Mining and Settlement in Northern New Caledonia Bolitho, S. ‘Holy’ Bodies: Death, Desire and the Construction of Gender in Late-Medieval Hagiography Bosch, A. The Social and Cultural Construction of Renaissance Englishwomen’s Bodies, 1450– 1650 Derbyshire, A. Anyone’s But Our Own: The Teaching of New Zealand History in Secondary Schools Since 1920 Edmunds, D. Censorship and Values in New Zealand Broadcasting, 1961–1990 Flinn, L. Representations of Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century British Working-Class Autobiographies Gross, S. ‘The Time’: Its Determination, Its Standardization and Its Uses in New Zealand Until 1890 Herriman, N. The Relationship of Historical Memory and Commercial Culture: New Zealand Popular Music Since the End of World War Two Robinson, H. Compulsory Carnivores? Meat and Society in New Zealand, 1945–2005 Säuberlich, M. German Scientific Expeditions in the Pacific, 1880–1914 Shen, Y. Charles de Gaulle and Chiang Kai-Shek: Nationalism in Different Countries Stewart, K. Home and Away: Three Generations of Japanese Women in Auckland Williams, M. Iwitanga in a Changing Landscape: The People of Panguru, 1945–c.1990 Young, J. British Child Evacuees, 1939–1945 230 New Zealand Journal of History, 37, 2 (2003)

University of Canterbury

PhD Campbell, C. The Social Consequences of Political and Economic Changes Within the Cotton-Textile Industry of Bombay Presidency, 1910s to 1930s McLeod, S. The 1935 General Election and the Rural Vote Morris, M. A Social and Ecological History of the Christchurch Home Garden, 1920–1950 Nicole, R. Aspects of Resistance in Fiji from 1850 to 1945 Priestley, R. Nuclear New Zealand Richardson, M. Social Capital and Public Policy in New Zealand Wanhalla, A. Gender, Community and Identity: A History of the Ngai Tahu Whanau/Families of the Taieri Mouth, 1830s–1920s MA Allen, M. The Chiefs that Balance Met: Maori Political Authority in 1885 Boulton, L. The Native Reserves of the FitzRoy, Omata, Grey, Waiwakaiho and Hua Purchases: Crown Processes and Te Atiawa Responses, North Taranaki, 1840–1902 Brown, H. ‘A woman’s right to choose’: Second Wave Feminist Advocacy of Abortion Law Reform in New Zealand and New South Wales, 1968– 1984 Bye, K. For the Greater Good: A Comparative Study of Wallace and Southland Counties’ Reaction to Local Government Restructuring, 1873–1989 Dowling, S. Female Imperialism: The Victoria League Canterbury Branch, 1910–1989 Fergusson, J. Crusades as Anti-Heresy Strategy. The Cathaar and Hussite Crusades Gibbs, D. ‘Threads of culture in Egmont National Park: The Construction and Colonisation of a Landscape, 1900–1924 Hunt, J. Was There a Justifiable Economic Opposition to Deterrence? Miller, D. Churchill’s Diplomacy Towards the Tehran Conference Molloy, T. New Zealand Biography: Towards a National Genre Moore, L. Gender and Electoral Behaviour in New Zealand, 1893–1954 Searle, D. An Analysis of the World War II Diary of Major E.P. Davis Using Microhistory Sedgwick, J. Politicised Justice? Allied Partisanship and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), 1946–1948 Smith, M. The Electoral Behaviour in Christchurch Between the Wars RESEARCH 231

Wendelken, S. The Faces of Unacceptable Wealth — The Entrenchment of Egalitarian Ideology of New Zealand, 1906–1914

Massey University – Albany

PhD Hunter, I. Entrepreneurship in New Zealand Mincham, C. A Social History of Horsemanship in New Zealand Morrison, H. Origins of New Zealand Missionaries, 1880– 1930 Troughton, G. Representations of Jesus in New Zealand ca.1900–1940 MA Gardiner, C. Freemasonry in Auckland Hewlett, S. Evangelical Women and Churches in Late Twentieth-Century New Zealand Thomas, W. William Morley MPhil Deason, A. Ideas of Health in New Zealand, 1890–1914

Massey University – Palmerston North

PhD Foster, B. Apprenticeship in New Zealand Hucker, G. The Great War and Remembrance Newell, R. The Third Division in the South West Pacific Taylor, R. Logistics and the New Zealand Wars Yeo, C. Women and the New Zealand Wars MA Bell, R. Ruth Ross: Treaty Scholar/New Zealand Scholar Davenport, C. New Zealand External Trade, 1920–2000 Duke, A. Economic Relations Between New Zealand and Japan, 1952–1962 Gawith, B. James Reddy Clendon: The Life and Times of an Early New Zealand Entrepreneur Hickey, C. William Jordan: Politician and Diplomat Innes, C. New Zealand Firearms Policy in the 1850s and 1860s Lane, S. Women and Rural Local Body Politics Loveridge, G. The Gilfillan Murders, Wanganui, 1847 Luxford, S. Women’s Paid and Unpaid Contribution to the War Effort in the Wellington Province, 1914–1920 McIntosh, G. Man to Man: Monastic Friendship in Twelfth Century England Millar, A. The Development and Politics of New Zealand Law with Regard to Ship Desertion Reid, J-M. Maori and Pakeha Women, With Reference to the Early Years of the WCTU Ridge, P. Protest Against the 1977 SIS Amendment Bill Scarfe, A. The Maraekakaho Station, 1877–1929 Ward, J. Responsible Government in New Zealand, 1852–1856 Wright, J. Pubs in Patea 232 New Zealand Journal of History, 37, 2 (2003)

University of Otago

PhD Beattie, J. Climates of Uncertainty: Rainfall, Dessication and Drought in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand Clayton, N. New Zealanders and Their Weeds, 1770–1970 Cottle, E. Snakes and Ladders: Social Mobility Rates and Reasons in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand Grant, S. Sir George Grey: Science, Religion, Politics and Race Henning, J. The Development of Measures Establishing Statutory Minimum Conditions of Employment Heydon, S. History of the Kunde Hospital, Nepal Knudson, D. Provisions for Gifted Children in New Zealand Primary Schools from 1878 Li, K. The Global Economy and the Fall of the Ming Lockerbie, M. Catholicism in Caversham Lousberg, M. Dr Edward Shortland and the Politics of Ethnography Smith, B. Railway Commissioners’ Experiences, 1887–1894 Strack, M. The Spatial Extent of Rights in Watercourses Warbrick, P. Maori Land Court, 1960–1980 MA Budd, R. Christian Thought and History Deed, S. Cemetries: Silent Voices Findlay, A. The Campaign Against Aramoana Smelter Gilmore, H. Queen’s Gardens: A Cultural Landscape Study Green, A. History of the Town Belt, Dunedin Keenan, L. The Waitangi Tribunal Report of 1996: How Does it Tell the History of the Taranaki Maori? Mackay, D. The Significance of the New Zealand Post-War Deployment of Troops to Gallipoli in 1918 for Posterity Redwood, S. Historical Study of ‘Burnside’, Oamaru Stewart, M. William McCaw: Foreign Correspondent

Victoria University of Wellington

PhD Falkner, N. Schoolgirls of the 1940s: Young Women of the 1950s. A Study of a Cohort Nelson, L. Thorndon Foothills Motorway Community Displacement MA Brown, R. Family History: A Part of History or Apart from History? Christoffel, P. From Swill to the Café Society: Liquor Control in New Zealand, 1920–1989 Dee, E. China and the Human Rights Question: The Historical Debates Gregg, A. The Debate Over Social Welfare Benefits in the Mainstream New Zealand Media from 1990 to 1998 RESEARCH 233

Hart, W. The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (Aotearoa Section) in the Nuclear Age Heng, Y. Sino-Malay Relations and the 1969 Riots Millar, G. The New Zealand Feminist Movement, 1970–1979 Pollock, K. Botanic Gardens, Botanical Exchange and Economic Botany in New Zealand, 1860s– 1890s Power, P. Rugby Football in Wellington, 1860s–1920s Shum, L. Haining St: Wellington’s Chinatown, 1905– 1961

University of Waikato

PhD Bentley, T. Images of Pakeha–Maori in Non-Fiction Fisk, J. Pakeha Women’s Activities Outside the Home, Hamilton, c.1914–1945 Moodie, J. The Influence of the Family and its History on Life Narratives: A Colonising Family Coming to Terms with its Past Piper, C. Maori and the Catholic Church, 1879–1940 MA/MSocSc Kihi, G. Maori in the Freezing Works, 1945–1960 O’Flaherty, E. Building a Suburb: Hillcrest, 1949–1962 Shanks, A. ‘Having their cake and eating it too?’: Anti- Nuclear Sentiment and Security in New Zealand Politics, 1972–1987 Sircombe, A. The New Zealand Child Migrant Scheme Strathern, D. The Changing Health Profile in the Manukau Region of South Auckland Between 1956 and 1972