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School of Social & Cultural Studies
Albany Campus, Auckland

Emeritus Professor Kerry Howe


MA (Auck), PhD (Aust National University)

History Programme

 

 
Contact details: 
 

Email K.R.Howe@massey.ac.nz
Massey University, Albany Campus, Auckland
Private Bag 102 904
North Shore MSC
Auckland, New Zealand

 

 
Research Interests:  
 
  • Prehistory, history and cultures of New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, and Australia
  • Culture contact / race relations
  • Colonisation and decolonisation
  • Colonial and post-colonial representations
  • Historiography
 

 
Current / Recent Activities:  
 
  • Co-editor, Journal of Pacific History, 2004-2006.
  • Member, curatorial team for Vaka Moana Exhibition, Auckland War Memorial Museum.
  • Member, editorial board, New Zealand Journal of History.
 

 
Other Interests:

 

  • Outdoors/fishing
  • Sea kayaking

Coastal Sea Kayaking in New Zealand. A practical touring manual, Auckland: New Holland, 2005.

 

 
History Books: 

Vaka Moana: Voyages of the Ancestors. Discovery and Settlement of the Pacific, Ed. Kerry Howe, Auckland: Auckland Museum / David Bateman, 2006.

Winner of the Montana New Zealand 2007 Book Award - History Category.

 

 

The Quest for Origins - Who First Discovered and Settled New Zealand and the Pacific Islands?, Auckland: Penguin Books, 2003. Revised Edition 2008.

 

 

Nature, Culture and History. The 'Knowing' of Oceania, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000.

 

 

K.R.Howe, Robert C. Kiste, Brij V. Lal (eds), Tides of History. The Pacific Islands in the Twentieth Century, Sydney: Allen & Unwin, and Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994.

 

 

Singer in a Songless Land. A Life of Edward Tregear, 1846-1931, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1991.

 

 

(edited)The Verse of Edward Tregear, Palmerston North: Nagare Press, 1989.

 

 

Where the Waves Fall. A New South Seas Islands History from First Settlement to Colonial Rule, Sydney: George Allen & Unwin, 1984. US edition is under imprint of University Press of Hawaii, 1984. Reprinted 1988, 1992.

 

 

Race Relations Australia and New Zealand. A Comparative Survey 1770s-1970s, Wellington and Sydney: Methuen, 1977. Revised edition, Auckland: Longman Paul, 1982.

 

 

The Loyalty Islands. A History of Culture Contacts 1840-1900, Canberra: Australian National University Press, and Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1977. French Edition: Les Îles Loyauté, translated by G. Pisler, Noumea: Societé des Études Historiques, 1978.

 

 
 

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