Awards

• Short-listed for W. H. Oliver Prize for the Best Book on New Zealand History 2015
• Shortlisted for Ernest Scott Prize for History 2014.
• Shortlisted for W. H. Oliver Prize for the Best Book on New Zealand History 2015.
• Winner of Ernest Scott Prize for History 2014
• Winner of Ernest Scott Prize for History 2014.

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‘Exploring a surprisingly unspoken part of New Zealand’s history, Wanhalla’s book is, by turns, heart-warming and heart-rending. Love, when it comes with colonial strings, can hurt. This important book, with its detailed research and long time span, tells why. It is powerful history.’ – Charlotte Macdonald Exploring a surprisingly unspoken part of New Zealand’s history, Wanhalla’s book is, by turns, heart-warming and heart-rending. Love, when it comes with colonial strings, can hurt. This important book, with its detailed research and long time span, tells why. It is powerful history. – Charlotte Macdonald [Wanhalla’s] aim is to demonstrate that interracial marriage “was neither a pre-1840 nor post-World War II phenomenon ... [it] has been a feature of life from first contact through the colonial period and beyond”. – Anne Else, Listener NZ Matters of the Heart is richly documented through original research in a wide range of primary sources and innovative deployment of local histories and genealogies. The photographs are beautiful and carefully interpreted. – Bettina Bradbury

""A surprisingly unspoken part of New Zealand's history, Wanhalla's book is, by turns, heart warming and heart rending. Love, when it comes with colonial strings, can hurt. This important book, with its detailed research and long time span, tells why. It is powerful history."" --Charlotte Macdonald, professor, Victoria University of Wellington ""This important book is on a compelling subject, told in a smart and accessible form and shows a great depth and breadth of research."" --Damon Salesa, author, Racial Crossings

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Angela Wanhalla is a Kai Tahu historian and senior lecturer in history at the University of Otago. She is the author of In/visible Sight: The Mixed-Descent Families of Southern New Zealand and co-editor of Early New Zealand Photography: Images and Texts.

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