Secret History: State Surveillance in NZ, 1900-1956

Author:   Richard S. Hill ,  Steven Loveridge
Publisher:   Auckland University Press
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9781869409852


Pages:   448
Publication Date:   13 July 2023
Format:   Book
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The first volume in a history of spies and spying in New Zealand. In 1900, a handful of New Zealand police detectives watched out for spies, seditionists and others who might pose a threat to state and society. The Police Force remained the primary instrument of such human intelligence in New Zealand until 1956 when, a decade into the Cold War, a dedicated Security Service was created. Over the same period, New Zealand's role within signals intelligence networks evolved from the Imperial Wireless Chain to the UKUSA intelligence alliance (now known as Five Eyes). The first of two volumes chronicling the history of state surveillance in New Zealand, Secret History opens up the 'secret world' of security intelligence through to 1956. It is the story of the surveillers who – in times of war and peace, turmoil and tranquillity – monitored and analysed perceived threats to national interests. It is also the story of the surveilled: those whose association with organisations and movements led to their public and private lives being documented in secret files. Secret History explores a hidden and intriguing dimension of New Zealand history, one which sits uneasily with cherished national notions of an exceptionally fair and open society.

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Author:   Richard S. Hill ,  Steven Loveridge
Publisher:   Auckland University Press
Imprint:   Auckland University Press
ISBN:  

9781869409852


ISBN 10:   186940985
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   13 July 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Book
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Steven Loveridge is a historian whose research focuses on governance, security intelligence and war and society. Richard S. Hill is the author of four books on the history of policing in New Zealand and two on Crown- Maori relations in the twentieth century (including State Authority, Indigenous Autonomy and Maori and the State, Victoria University Press, 2004, 2009).

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