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NZJPH Book Review: Origins of an Experimental Society

Posted on December 4 2025

The New Zealand Journal of Public History is delighted to share Hazel Petrie’s review of Erik Olssen, The Origins of an Experimental Society: New Zealand, 1769–1860, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 2025. 584 pp. $65. ISBN 9781776711130.

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New Zealand Journal of Public History: New Book Review by Sophie Loy-Wilson

Posted on September 4 2025

In the latest from the New Zealand Journal of Public History, this week we have a review of Phoebe Li’s Golden Enterprise: New Zealand Chinese Merchants, 1860s–1970s by Sophie Loy-Wilson. Sophie Loy-Wilson is a historian of Chinese Australian communities. Her first book was a study of China-Australia relations in the interwar years, seen through the prism of Chinese Australian communities

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