Dissent from normalcy: progressives in Congress, 1918–1925 (1970)
Academic work
Discipline
History
Sub-discipline
Labour and social history of New Zealand
History of Otago
Institutions
University of Otago
Notable works
John A. Lee (1977)[1]
A History of Otago (1983)[2]
The Red Feds : Revolutionary Industrial Unionism and the New Zealand Federation of Labour 1908–14 (1988)[3]
Building the New World: Work, Politics and Society in Caversham 1880s–1920s (1995)[4]
Notable ideas
Relationships between politics, society, ideas, culture, and economics shape the lives of individuals and their societies
Erik Newland OlssenONZM FRSNZ (born 14 December 1941) is a New Zealand historian whose research focuses on the linkages between social structures, politics, and the world of ideas at four spatial domains – the local, provincial, national and global. His early research examined labour history, especially the working-class mobilisation in New Zealand from 1880 to 1940 and included a study of Caversham, regarded as one of the most industrialised areas of New Zealand at that time. He has published several articles and monographs, including a biography of John A. Lee, and a history of Otago. Olssen was an academic in the Department of History at the University of Otago from 1969 until his retirement in 2002, when he was conferred with the title of emeritus professor.
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Erik Newland Olssen ONZM FRSNZ (born 14 December 1941) is a New Zealand historian whose research focuses on the linkages between social structures, politics...
Mitchell, Daily Life in Victorian England (Greenwood: 1996), p. 60. ErikOlssen, Building the New World: Work, Politics, and Society in Caversham, 1880s–1920s...
Michael King, "The Penguin History of New Zealand" (2003) pp 171–172 ErikOlssen, "Mr. Wakefield and New Zealand as an Experiment in Post-Enlightenment...
differences. Others, such as Larry Peterson and ErikOlssen, disagree with this broad definition. According to Olssen, this understanding has a "tendency to blur...
the subsequent development of the party for decades. Lee's biographer ErikOlssen stated that the Lee Affair "marked a key battle in the triumph of authority...
for the centrality of the urban in New Zealand’s evolving identity". ErikOlssen writing in the New Zealand Journal of History noted some "scholarly issues"...
another on Pākehā missionary Thomas Kendall. With Judith Bassett and ErikOlssen she wrote People and the Land, a history of New Zealand aimed at readers...
1922. Walter Thomas Mills died May 7, 1942, in Los Angeles, California. ErikOlssen, "Walter Thomas Mills, 1856-1942: Labour Reformer, Political Organiser...
Feminism and the ideology of motherhood in New Zealand, 1896-1930 (1985) Academic advisors ErikOlssen Academic work Institutions University of Otago...
the Compulsory Arbitration Court of New Zealand. New York: Doubleday. ErikOlssen The Red Feds: Revolutionary Industrial Unionism and the New Zealand Federation...
selfish greed, and tyranny of unscrupulous capital", leading historian ErikOlssen to conclude that the paper "played a major role in shaping a sense of...
about the Great Depression, Songs to Uncle Scrim. Radio in New Zealand ErikOlssen, John A. Lee, University of Otago Press, Dunedin, 1977, p. 189 Davidson...
Australian Dictionary of Biography Page on Victorian Parliament website Olssen, Erik. "Henry Gilbert Scott Bennett". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography....
Zealand seaman and unionist. He was born in London, England on c.1860. Olssen, Erik. "William Belcher". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for...
Riccarton and the Deans Family, page 188 Bob Deans at AllBlacks.com Olssen, Erik (7 April 2006). "Deans, Robert George 1884–1908". Dictionary of New Zealand...
to at least before the Second World War. A year ago a jogger called John Olssen reported seeing the bird as he was running by the arts centre. And a woman...
Archived from the original on 3 March 2012. Retrieved 22 November 2011. Olssen, Erik (1996). "Sidey, Thomas Kay". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Retrieved...
time-migrant, Ekebergparken Sculpture Park victim Kristine Hartgen as Nessie Olssen/Olsen: 19th-century time-migrant, hotel victim After creating the show Lilyhammer...
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