Hei Taonga Ma Nga Uri Whakatipu: Treasures for the Rising Generation: The Dominion Museum Ethnological Expeditions 1919-1923 by Wayne Ngata & Anne Salmond
74.99 NZD
Category: Māori History
From 1919 to 1923, at Sir Apirana Ngata's initiative, a team from the Dominion Museum travelled to tribal areas across Te Ika-a-Māui/the North Island to record tikanga Māori (ancestral practices) that Ngata feared might be disappearing. These ethnographic expeditions, the first in the world to be inspi ...Show more
The Forgotten Wars: Why the Musket Wars Matter Today by Ron Crosby
44.99 NZD
Category: Māori History
Ron Crosby brilliantly rewrites his seminal The Musket Wars on a thematic basis, simplifying it to a concise work full of maps and illustrations for the general reader. Distinguished author Ron Crosby outlines why the Musket Wars were a crucial phase of New Zealand history and should be taught today. ...Show more
When Darkness Stays: Hohepa Kereopa and a Tuhoe Oral History by Paul Moon
29.99 NZD
Category: Māori History
This extraordinary book – unsettling, harrowing, and ultimately redemptive – is based on the time the author spent with the Tūhoe tohunga, Hōhepa Kereopa. It plunges deep into a cultural landscape that has almost vanished, bringing to light insights that are enriching and sometimes shocking. The work ...Show more
Gottfried Lindauer's New Zealand: The Maori Portraits by Ngahiraka Mason
69.99 NZD
Category: Māori History
An exquisite piece of art publishing that showcases Bohemian artist Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand in 75 plates and detailed contextual essays. From the 1870s to the early twentieth century, the Bohemian immigrant artist Gottfried Lindauer travelled to marae and rural towns around New Zealand and – c ...Show more
The Treaty of Waitangi | Te Tiriti o Waitangi: an Illustrated History by Claudia Orange
49.99 NZD
Category: Māori History | Reading Level: very good
Claudia Orange's writing on the Treaty of Waitangi has played a central role in national understanding of this foundational document. This fully revised and updated edition (previously entitled An Illustrated History of the Treaty of Waitangi) brings the Treaty's history to life with a richly informativ ...Show more
Waitangi: A Living Treaty by Matthew Wright
39.99 NZD
Category: Māori History
Acclaimed historian Matthew Wright explores the evolution of New Zealand's most historically significant document, the Treaty of Waitangi, from its origins to its place in the present day. From the early cultural collisions between Maori and Pakeha that led to this landmark agreement, to the many reinte ...Show more
Musket Wars by Ron Crosby
74.99 NZD
Category: Māori History
First published in 1999, with an introduction by the late Michael King, The Musket Wars established Ron Crosby's reputation as a daring, original chronicler of New Zealand history. This best-selling history provides the first comprehensive account of the wars that ravaged the country in the early 1800s, ...Show more
Te Pouhere Kōrero 10 by Edited by Arini Loader and Nēpia Mahuika
30.00 NZD
Category: Māori History
Te Pouhere Kōrero 10 focuses on the new history curricula launched across all schools in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2023. A number of Pouhere historians have been involved in this process as advisors, writers and developers. The editors of this volume had a particular engagement throughout, and other contr ...Show more
Pacific History by Brent Coutts, Nicholas Fitness
79.99 NZD
Category: Māori History
Pacific History presents to New Zealand students significant events and issues in Pacific history. Each context includes contested events that have impacted on the people in the Pacific and shaped their place in the modern world. These issues stimulate inquiry and enable students to achieve excellence. ...Show more
Wars, Laws and Policies: Sovereignty vs Rangatiratanga by Ruth Naumann
30.99 NZD
Category: Māori History
People in canoes voyage south down the Pacific to begin a human history in a resource-rich land. These people form a relationship with the land and create a type of government, authority, laws, policies, organisation. Several centuries later ships sail down and bring a new people to this land. They say ...Show more
The Fate of the Land | Ko ngā Ākinga a ngā Rangatira — Māori Political Struggle in the Liberal Era, 1891-1912 by Danny Keenan
65.00 NZD
Category: Māori History
In the second half of the nineteenth century, settlers poured into Aotearoa demanding land. Millions of acres were acquired by the government or directly by settlers; or confiscated after the Land Wars. By 1891, when the Liberal government came to power, Maori retained only a fraction of their lands. An ...Show more