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Biography: Cowan, James

Links and sources

Websites

New Zealand Electronic Text Centre

Read books and articles by James Cowan at the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre.

Bibliography

Cowan, J. Papers. MS Papers 39. WTU

Hilliard, C. The bookmen's dominion: cultural life in New Zealand 1920–1950. Auckland, 2006

Hilliard, C. 'Island stories: the writing of New Zealand history, 1920–1940.' MA thesis, Auckland, 1997

Hilliard, C. 'James Cowan and the frontiers of New Zealand history.' New Zealand Journal of History 31, No 2 (1997): 219–233

Jones, R. 'Cowan, James'. In An encyclopaedia of New Zealand. Ed. A. H. McLintock. Wellington, 1966

Obit. Dominion. 7 Sept. 1943: 4

Obit. Evening Post. 7 Sept. 1943: 6

How to cite this page

David Colquhoun. 'Cowan, James', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1996, updated January 2012. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/126478/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).