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According to NZ Historian Jock Phillips, while Americans took away military/political lessons from the Vietnam War, New Zealand came away with a new sense of national identity. Opposition to the war was couched in nationalistic terms, because like many Commonwealth countries at that time, New Zealanders were carving out a post-colonial role.
Te Ara was developed between 2001 and 2014 and edited by historian Jock Phillips, who oversaw a full-time staff of about 20 writers, editors, image and resource researchers and designers during its creation. [5] In 2010 during the development of the encyclopedia, the decision was made to integrate the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography into Te ...
She was married for many years to Jock Phillips, a university colleague and noted historian. [1] The couple divorced in 1993, before Bunkle was elected to Parliament. [ 3 ]
Jock Phillips (born 1947), New Zealand historian Joel Daniel Phillips (born 1989), American artist Joker Phillips (born 1963), American football player and coach
Olssen's father was a historian and a socialist, who instilled in him a respect for evidence-based scholarship. [12]: 222 He became interested in labour politics in the 1970 and 1980s because he felt socialism offered a way toward justice and equality in New Zealand and his involvement in the working-class Caversham branch of the Labour Party, allowed him to study the development and ...
Jock is a Scottish diminutive form of the forename "John"; It is also a nickname for someone of Scottish origin, as well as being the collective name for Scottish soldiers, collectively known as "the Jocks". It corresponds to Jack in England and Wales. In London the rhyming slang "sweaty" is used, deriving from "Sweaty sock - Jock". The name ...
As historian Jock Phillips said of Scott: "although he had not met a Māori person until the age of 20 and did not know te Reo, he recognised injustice immediately when he came across it and became convinced the story should be told." [2]
Phillips received an Early Career Research Excellence Award from Auckland, and a Faculty of Arts Teaching Excellence Award. In 2015 she was nominated for the Jerry Bentley Prize in World History from the American Historical Association , for her book Before Orientalism . [ 1 ]