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An end to the “musket wars”, Rawiri Taonui
Taua – Musket wars, land wars, or tikanga? Warfare in Maori society in the early nineteenth century Angela Ballara Penguin, $59.95, ISBN 0143018892 Reviewing R D Crosby’s The Musket Wars: A History of Inter-iwi Conflict 1806-1845 (New Zealand Books, March…
Tagged with: Angela Ballara, Issue 64, Penguin, Rawiri Taonui, Summer 2003
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
The shiny, soft-cover Treaty Debate, Angela Ballara
Living Relationships: Kokiri Ngatahi. The Treaty of Waitangi in the New Millennium eds Ken S Coates, P G McHugh Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0 86473 330 5 An Unsettled History Alan Ward Bridget Williams Books, $34.95, ISBN 0 908912…
Tagged with: Alan Ward, Angela Ballara, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 40, Ken S Coates, P G McHugh, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Making iwi, Jeffrey Sissons
Iwi: The Dynamics of Maori Tribal Organisation from c.1769 to c.1945 Angela Ballara Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0 86473 328 3 What a dynamic, marvellously complex world Maori kinship is! Little wonder that there were those in the past…
Tagged with: Angela Ballara, Issue 37, Jeffrey Sissons, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Playing colonists at their own game, Angela Ballard
Agents of Autonomy: Maori Committees in the 19th Century Vincent O’Malley Crown Forest Rental Trust ISBN 0 9583708 0 X Hikurangi to Homburg Helen M Hogan Clerestory Press, $39.95 ISBN 0 9583706 0 5 To review these two books together…
Tagged with: Angela Ballara, Clerestory Pres, Crown Forest Rental Trust, Helen M Hogan, Issue 34, Vincent O’Malley
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Aspects of Maori history, Angela Ballara
Te Haurapa: An Introduction to Researching Tribal Histories and Traditions Te Ahukaramu Charles Royal, Bridget Williams Books and Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, 1992, $17.95 He Rourou Iti: Selected speeches of Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu Miria Simpson (ed),…