At home in New Zealand
Subtitle: houses, history, people
By: edited by Barbara Brookes.
Contributors: Brookes, Barbara L. 1955-
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Wellington, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic -- New Zealand.; Housing -- New Zealand.; Dwellings -- New Zealand.
Notes: Includes bibliographcal references (p. 226-256).
Table of contents: title: A sense of place / Barbara Brookes; title: At home with the past / Ian Lochhead; title: The decay of home life? / Margaret Tennant; title: Strangers at the hearth / Charlotte Macdonald; title: The European use of Maori art in New Zealand homes c. 1890-1914 / Anna K.C. Petersen; title: The European house and garden in New Zealand / Helen M. Leach; title: A home in this world? / Lawrence Jones; title: The justification for Labour's housing scheme / Penny Isaac and Erik Olssen; title: Labour at home / Ben Schrader; title: Going up rather than out / Julia Gatley; title: Home away / Robin Skinner; title: A woman's place? / Louise Shaw; title: Sarah Campion and the modern colonial house / Xanthe Howes and Paul Walker; title: Book, house, home / Justine Clark and Paul Walker; title: Nostalgia for "innocent homely pleasures" / Barbara Brookes.