Voices from the New Zealand wars = he reo nō ngā pakanga o Aotearoa / Vincent O'Malley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Malley, Vincent, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Maori

Subjects (All):

Māori (New Zealand people)--History.

Māori (New Zealand people).

Maori (New Zealand people)--History.

Maori (New Zealand people).

New Zealand--History--New Zealand Wars, 1843-1847.

New Zealand.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 439 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color), ; 27 cm

Other Title:

Reo nō ngā pakanga o Aotearoa

Place of Publication:

Wellington, New Zealand : Bridget Williams Books Ltd, 2021.

Language Note:

In English with some Māori.

Summary:

"Welcome to our story, this history. Wherever in the world the bones of your ancestors lie, wherever their ashes may have been dispersed, here you will find traces of them, and of yourself.... It is, of course, a story of colonisation and resistance - and a history that has never stopped repeating. Arama Rata. The New Zealand Wars of the mid-nineteenth century profoundly shaped the course and direction of our nation's history. This book takes us to the heart of these conflicts with a series of first-hand accounts from Māori and Pākehā who either fought in or witnessed the wars that ravaged New Zealand between 1845 and 1872. From Heni Te Kiri Karamu's narrative of her remarkable exploits as a wahine toa, through to accounts from the field by British soldiers and powerful reports by observers on both sides, we learn about the wars at a human level. The often fragmentary, sometimes hastily written accounts that make up Voices from the New Zealand Wars vividly evoke the extreme emotions - fear, horror, pity and courage - experienced during the most turbulent time in our country's history. Each account is expertly introduced and contextualised, so that the historical record speaks to us vividly through many voices"--Publisher information.

Contents:

Foreword by Arama Rata

Introduction

The Northern War, 1845-46

Central New Zealand, 1843-47

Taranaki, 1860-64

The Waikato War, 1863-64

Tauranga, 1863-67

Pai Mārire and the West Coast, 1864-66

The East Coast Wars, 1865-66

Titokowaru, 1868-69

Te Kooti, 1868-72

Timeline

Further Reading

Bibliography

Map sources

Editorial note

Iwi and Hapū names.

Notes:

Edited by Nancy Swarbrick.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Voices from the New Zealand wars

ISBN:

9781988587790

1988587794

OCLC:

1265005101

Publisher Number:

99993104751