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reflect the official record but
comprehensive overview
it doesn’t reflect the historical
of the field; foundational
reality, and the accounts of
reading for anyone interested
indigenous peoples often
in why and how we try to
read like an afterthought.
preserve heritage in the
Te Tiriti is not mentioned,
Pacific (including globally
even in comprehensive
groundbreaking approaches),
passages covering 1840, and
and how this might be
the terms ‘pakehas’ and ‘the
done better.
Māori iwi’ are telling. A casual
The book is part of a
dismissal of local histories and
global series that documents
the suggestion that analysis
architectural heritage
of US colonial history “applies
preservation throughout the
equally well to Aotearoa
world. Covering Australia,
New Zealand” represents a
New Zealand, Hawai’i,
new type of globalisation.
Micronesia, Melanesia, South
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Pacific Polynesia and the
book/9781469676555/
polar regions, the research
the-edwin-fox
and analysis take in both the big picture and its localised details. Experts share experiences, knowledge, laws and practices specific to their locales, revealing, in particular, how “the architectural conservation
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The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850–1914
the ship for one shilling in
ethos that has developed
1965, have memorialised the
in Australia and Aotearoa
vessel through preservation
has been a significant
and in the quirky museum
development in global
built around it, but it took a
heritage management”.
pair of US academics (and
Several Heritage New
their funds) to compile a
Zealand Pouhere Taonga
thorough account not only of
staff are contributors, and
the ship but also of the era of globalisation it chartered. From its novelistic opening pages, the book is a compelling read. Full of interesting biographies
Boyd Cothran and Adrian Shubert
and dense with facts and
$42.25 HB, $31.16 eBook
a conversational style;
(University of North
the authors are invested
Carolina Press)
emotionally, as well as
figures, it nonetheless retains
academically, with a deep
Architectural Conservation in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands: National Experiences and Practice
the history and values of the organisation are well relayed. A highlight is the section by Ellen Anderson, Kaiwhakahaere Tautiaki Taonga me Kāupapa Māori, on the conservation of Māori architecture, in which she gives elegant context to the trend examined throughout the book “toward increasing validation
The Edwin Fox is the oldest
respect and enthusiasm for
surviving merchant sailing
their subject matter and the
vessel in the world. After
human stories that bear it
John Stubbs, William Chapman, Julia Gatley, Ross King
decades travelling the
through time. They marvel
$141.60 HB, $120.80 eBook
globe transporting cargo,
at the capacity of humans
(Routledge)
indentured labourers,
to build, trade, travel and
immigrants and convicts,
expand, while also weighing
An academic text that
way that whare are an
then being used to store
the devastating cost of this
doesn’t pretend to be
encapsulation of the entire
coal and frozen meat, it is
insatiable drive to all the forms
otherwise, Routledge’s
history of the world, and of
now drydocked in Picton,
of life that make it possible.
Architectural Conservation
all the ancestors before us,”
just past the playground.
At times, however, this
is required reading for
she explains.
cultural value” that is being “led from the Pacific”. “It is impossible to consider Māori architecture without considering the
Maritime heritage enthusiasts,
cultural critique can feel like
anyone involved in heritage
and particularly the Edwin
box-ticking. The handful of
conservation. But it’s also
Fox Society, which bought
references to women might
a highly readable and
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of the intangible origins or