Story: North Americans

More links and websites

• The ‘American invasion’: American forces and the New Zealand people

  This exhibition on the NZ History website examines the experiences of American soldiers in New Zealand during the Second World War, and their impact on New Zealand culture.

• Canadian High Commission in Wellington, New Zealand

  This is the site for the Canadian High Commission in New Zealand. It contains information about travel to Canada. trade and investment between Canada and New Zealand, and services for Canadians travelling or living in New Zealand.

• Hocken Library bulletin

  An article by George Griffiths, ‘From seals to social laboratory: 19th century American material in the Hocken Library,’ printed in the Hocken Library’s Welcome to the Hocken, bulletin 13 (September 1995).

• United States Embassy in New Zealand

  This is the site for the United States of America embassy in New Zealand. It contains information about the work of the embassy and news from America.

More suggestions and sources

• Lissington, M. P. New Zealand and the United
  States, 1840–1944. Wellington: Government
  Printer, 1972.
• McKinnon, Malcolm, ed. The American
  connection. Wellington: Allen & Unwin,
  1988.
• Phillips, Jock, ed. New Worlds? the
  comparative history of New Zealand and the United
  States. Wellington: Stout Research Centre,
  1989.
• Phillips, Jock, and Ellen Ellis. Brief
  encounter: American forces and the New Zealand
  people, 1942–1945. Wellington: Historical
  Branch, Dept of Internal Affairs, 1992.
• Trotter, Ann, ed. New Zealand, Canada and
  the United States: the papers of the twenty-second
  foreign policy school, 1987. Dunedin:
  University Extension, University of Otago,
  1987.
• Wood, Val. War brides. Auckland: Random
  Century, 1991.