Browsing by Supervisor "Beattie, James John"
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Birth, Death, and Marriage in the Garden: Canterbury Colonial Women Gardeners, 1850–1914
(University of Waikato, 2015)This thesis presents a study of the role of gardens in the life stages of colonial women of Canterbury. Using the framework of the expected life-cycle of middle- and upper-class Victorian women (birth, marriage, death), ... -
Marine wood borers in New Zealand: an interdisciplinary study of their origins, impacts and management
(University of Waikato, 2014)Non-indigenous marine species are a major concern worldwide. For some species, insufficient historical and biogeographical data can leave their origin and patterns of dispersal difficult to determine. Among such species ... -
National Fitness or Failure? Heredity, Vice and Racial Decline in New Zealand Psychiatry: A Case Study of the Auckland Mental Hospital, 1868-99
(University of Waikato, 2013)This thesis examines anxieties about national fitness and efficiency in nineteenth-century New Zealand through a detailed study of medical and popular ideas about the causes of mental illness. In particular, it foregrounds ... -
The Common-Health and Beyond: New Zealand Trainee Specialists in International Medical Networks, 1945-1975
(University of Waikato, 2013)In the two to three decades that followed World War Two, approximately three-quarters of all New Zealand doctors, and up to ninety per cent of New Zealand medical specialists, travelled overseas for the purposes of obtaining ... -
The Role of Medicinal Plants in New Zealand's Settler Medical Culture, 1850s-1920s
(University of Waikato, 2014)Throughout history, medicinal plants have been important components of medical practices in almost all cultures of the world. This thesis focuses specifically on the changing uses and understandings of medicinal plants in ... -
Writing the Goldfields of Victoria and Otago, 1851-1871: Australasian Narratives and Their Representations
(University of Waikato, 2015)This thesis examines thirteen published gold-rush narratives penned by authors who visited the goldfields of Victoria, Australia, and Otago, New Zealand, in the period 1851 to 1871. Through analysis of narrative representations ...
