Download or read book The New Zealand Wars Ng Pakanga o Aotearoa written by Vincent O'Malley and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Zealand Wars were a series of conflicts that profoundly shaped the course and direction of our nation’s history. Fought between the Crown and various groups of Māori between 1845 and 1872, the wars touched many aspects of life in nineteenth century New Zealand, even in those regions spared actual fighting. Physical remnants or reminders from these conflicts and their aftermath can be found all over the country, whether in central Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin, or in more rural locations such as Te Pōrere or Te Awamutu. The wars are an integral part of the New Zealand story but we have not always cared to remember or acknowledge them. Today, however, interest in the wars is resurgent. Public figures are calling for the wars to be taught in all schools and a national day of commemoration was recently established. Following on from the best-selling The Great War for New Zealand, Vincent O'Malley's new book provides a highly accessible introduction to the causes, events and consequences of the New Zealand Wars. The text is supported by extensive full-colour illustrations as well as timelines, graphs and summary tables.
Download or read book The Great War for New Zealand written by Vincent O'Malley and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning nearly two centuries from first contact through to settlement and apology, this major work focuses on the human impact of the war in the Waikato, its origins and aftermath.
Download or read book The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict written by James Belich and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Zealand Wars is a powerful revisionist history. Revealing the enormous tactical and military skill of Maori, and the inability of the 'Victorian interpretation of racial conflict' to acknowledge those qualities, this account of the New Zealand Wars changed how the country's history was understood. Belich undertakes a complete reinterpretation of the crucial episode in New Zealand history and the result is a very different picture from the one previously given in historical works. Maori, in this new view, won the Northern War and stalemated the British in the Taranaki War of 1860-61 only to be defeated by 18,000 British troops in the Waikato War of 1863-64. The secret of effective Maori resistance was an innovative military system, the modern pa, a trench-and-bunker fortification of a sophistication not achieved in Europe until 1915. According to the author: 'The degree of Maori success in all four major wars is still underestimated - even to the point where, in the case of one war, the wrong side is said to have won.' Here, Belich sets out to show how historical distortions have arisen over time and revises our understanding of New Zealand history by using fresh evidence and a systematic re-analysis of old evidence.
Download or read book The Laws of Yesterday s Wars written by Samuel C. Duckett White and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an exploration of unique laws and customs placed around warfare throughout history, from Indigenous Australians to the American Civil War.
Download or read book The New Zealand Wars 1820 72 written by Ian Knight and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1845 and 1872, various groups of Maori were involved in a series of wars of resistance against British settlers. The Maori had a fierce and long-established warrior tradition and subduing them took a lengthy British Army commitment, only surpassed in the Victorian period by that on the North-West Frontier of India. Warfare had been endemic in pre-colonial New Zealand and Maori groups maintained fortified villages or pas. The small early British coastal settlements were tolerated, and in the 1820s a chief named Hongi Hika travelled to Britain with a missionary and returned laden with gifts. He promptly exchanged these for muskets, and began an aggressive 15-year expansion. By the 1860s many Maori had acquired firearms and had perfected their bush-warfare tactics. In the last phase of the wars a religious movement, Pai Maarire ('Hau Hau'), inspired remarkable guerrilla leaders such as Te Kooti Arikirangi to renewed resistance. This final phase saw a reduction in British Army forces. European victory was not total, but led to a negotiated peace that preserved some of the Maori people's territories and freedoms.
Download or read book Wars Without End written by Danny Keenan and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the earliest days of European settlement in New Zealand, Maori have struggled to hold on to their land. Tensions began early, arising from disputed land sales. When open conflict between Maori and Imperial forces broke out in the 1840s and 1860s, the struggles only intensified. For both sides, land was at the heart of the conflict, one that casts a long shadow over race relations in modern-day New Zealand. Wars Without End is the first book to approach this contentious subject from a Maori point of view, focusing on the Maori resolve to maintain possession of customary lands and explaining the subtleties of an ongoing and complex conflict. Written by senior Maori historian Danny Keenan, Wars Without End eloquently and powerfully describes the Maori reasons for fighting the Land Wars, placing them in the wider context of the Maori struggle to retain their sovereign estates. The Land Wars might have been quickly forgotten by Pakeha, but for Maori these longstanding struggles are wars without end.
Download or read book The New Zealand Wars written by James Cowan and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Copy in Mahi Māreikura on loan from the whanau of Maharaia Winiata. Bookmark (postcard in envelope) in volume 1 at page 105.
Download or read book The New Zealand Wars written by Matthew Wright and published by NZ Series. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the New Zealand Wars occur? Who fought them and how did they proceed? And where were these battles fought? In The New Zealand Wars, Matthew Wright answers these questions in probing text supported by fact boxes and illustrations that make navigating these protracted wars easy. Building on his 2014 book on the same subject, Wright covers all of the wars major incidents, movements and people, including the Battle of Gate Pa, Pai Marire, and figures such as Colonel G.S. Whitmore and Te Kooti. He shows that the wars, which pitted British settlers and allied Māori against other Māori over a 30-year period, really ended up as a civil war fanning flames in many regions. The book features glossaries that explain military terms, and sidebars that explore subjects like Did Māori invent trench warfare?, and Food, horrible food. There are over 70 colour images, including of battle sites that we can visit today.
Download or read book The Origins of the Maori Wars written by Keith Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kinds of Peace written by Keith Sinclair and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Admirably clear and concise in its account of the aftermath of the land wars, Kinds of Peace examines the political, religious and other reactions among M&āori towards the coming of peace. It considers the effect of the wars on the M&āori people of Waikato, Taranaki, and Hawkes Bay, and draws heavily on M&āori sources. Special emphasis is given to leaders Te Whiti and T&āwhiao. Sinclair writes a challenging and eminently readable book. It is a major contribution by New Zealand's most distinguished historian to our knowledge of nineteenth-century M&āori history.
Download or read book Maori Wars of the Nineteenth Century written by Stephenson Percy Smith and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wars of the border-land, Nga-Puhi and other -- Battle of Moremo-nui, Nga-Puhi v. Ngati-Whatua -- Further wars on the border-land -- The Great Epidemic -- Early northern expedition to the south -- Muru-paenga's first expedition to Taranaki -- Tau-kawau's first expedition to Taranaki -- Marsden's first visit to Bay of Islands -- Te Morenga and Hongi visit the East Cape -- Tu-whare and Te Rauparaha's expedition to Port Nicholson -- Death of Tu-whare -- The Wai-te-mata and Thames -- War at Te Roto-a-Tara -- Death of Nahu, fights at Te Aratipi, &c. -- Marsden's visit to Hauraki and Kaipara -- Cruise's visit to Waitemata and Hauraki -- Te Moregna's visiti to the Thames -- Te Moregna's visit to Tauranga -- Marsden visits Katikati -- Koriwhai's death -- Titore and Te Wera's expedition to East Cape, and fall of Te Whetu-mata-rau -- Waipaoa -- Te Morenga's visit to Tamaki, death of Korperu -- Fall of Mauinaina to Hongi -- Fall of Te Totara pa to Hongi -- Pomare's raid to Tuhua-- |a Death of Te Pae-o-te-rangi at Rotorua -- "Te Amio-whenua" expedition -- Battle of Te Motou-nui, Taranaki -- Fall of Matakitaki to Hongi -- Pomare's first visit to the Urewera Country -- Te Roto-a-Tara (Kaupapa) -- Fall of Mokoia, Rotorua, to Hongi -- Pomare and Te Wera-Hamaki's expedition to the south -- Pomare's pease with Ngati-Porou -- Te Wera settles at Te Mahia Peninsula -- Te Wera's doings at Heretaunga -- Te Pakake -- Peace between Nga-Puhi and Waikato -- The "Coquille" at the Bay of Islands -- Troubles at Whangarei -- Death of Te Toroa and Rangi-wai-tatao, at Wairoa -- Te Mau-tara-nui visits the Bay of Islands -- The fall of Titirangi, Puke-karoro, &c., pas, Hawke's Bay -- Moumou-kai, Wai-kotero, Puke-Karoro -- Battle of Te Ika-a-ranga-nui, Kaipara -- Death of Te Mau-tara-nui -- Fall of Pohatu-roa, Hawke's Bay -- Fall of Waihau -- Fall of Noho-awatea, Waikato -- Pomare's death -- Death of Muru-paenga -- The Wai-te-mata in 1827 (D'Urville's account-- |a Rangi-tuke's expedition -- Tawa-tawhiti fight -- Rangi-tukia's expedition -- Hongi Hika, his death -- Taking of the "Hawes" -- The death of Ngarara -- The girls' war -- Ahuahu and Motiti (Te Haramiti's expedition) -- Pukerangi's expedition to Waikato -- Titore's first expedition to Tauranga -- Matamatat -- Titore's second expedition to Tauranga -- Puckey's visit to Te Reinga -- Toka-a-kuku -- Expedition to the Great Barrier -- The coming of the white man.
Download or read book The Waikato War Together with Some Account of Te Kooti Rikirangi written by John Featon and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a detailed account of the operations of both Imperial and Colonial forces in the Waikato campaign of 1863-4, from Koheroa to the Gate Pa and Te Ranga.
Download or read book Soldiers Scouts and Spies written by Cliff Simons and published by Massey University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and detailed study of the major campaigns on the New Zealand Wars.As interest in the New Zealand Wars grows, Soldiers, Scouts andSpies offers a unique insight into the major campaigns fought between 1845 and 1864 by Britishtroops, their militia and Maori allies, and Maori iwi and coalitions.It was a time of rapid technological change. Maori were quick to adopt westernweaponry and evolve their tactics — and even political structures — as theylooked for ways to confront the might of the Imperial war machine. And Britain,despite being a military and economic super power, was challenged by a capableenemy in a difficult environment.This detailed examination of the Wars from a military perspective focuses onthe period of relatively conventional warfare before the increasingly &‘irregular'fighting of the late 1860s. It explains how and where the battles were fought, andtheir outcomes. Importantly, it also analyses the intelligence-gathering skills andprocesses of both British and Maori forces as each sought to understand andovercome their enemy.
Download or read book The New Zealand Wars written by Matthew Wright and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Zealand wars shaped the was New Zealand is today, and we can still stand where battles were fought.
Download or read book The Maori Wars written by Tom Gibson and published by London : L. Cooper. This book was released on 1974 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maori and Settler written by George Alfred Henty and published by London : Blackie ; Toronto : Copp Clark Company, [189-?]. This book was released on 1891 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Renshaws lose their property and emigrate to New Zealand. Against the odds, they succeed in establishing themselves happily in New Zealand.
Download or read book Monday s Warriors written by Maurice Shadbolt and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1992 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on fact, this tells of Kimball Bent, a Yankee who blundered into the British army in the mid-19th century, and was sent to fight in New Zealand. He deserted across battle lines to the Maori side in possibly the most ferocious colonial war ever fought.
