I reviewed the reissued edition of Michael King's Penguin History of New Zealand -- which now has Aotearoa in the title. How did 2003 compare to 2023? What has changed? newsroom.co.nz/2024/01/25/h...

Thanks Philip - I'd like to read the O’Regan essay as that is the obvious input to cover some of the last 20 years. Is that available separately for example?

Thanks for that, those are all good points.

Thanks for the review. Agree with your points towards the end about not updating it properly. And wanted to say that the history departments are so small at our universities particularly in terms of historians of AoNZ that you can count them on one hand. Many more outside unis than in them.

Nice review Philip. I read the first edition when I first arrived to live on these shores in 2003 and it informed much of my perception of Aotearoa at the time. Re reading as an established ‘Kiwi’ from a very different Otautahi 20 years later sounds like it might be both challenging and refreshing.