Tears of Rangi - Experiments Across Worlds by Salmon D Anne
65.00 NZD
Category: Maori History | Reading Level: very good
Six centuries ago Polynesian explorers, who inhabited a cosmos in which islands sailed across the sea and stars across the sky, arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand where they rapidly adapted to new plants, animals, landscapes and climatic conditions. Four centuries later, European explorers arrived with map ...Show more
Tuai: A Traveller in Two Worlds by Alison Jones; Kuni Jenkins
45.00 NZD
Category: Maori History
In early 1817 Tuai, a young Ngare Raumati chief from the Bay of Islands, set off for England. He was one of a number of Maori who, after encountering European explorers, traders and missionaries in New Zealand, seized opportunities to travel beyond their familiar shores to Australia, England and Europe ...Show more
Te Tiriti o Waitangi The treaty of Waitangi 1840 by Claudia Orange
29.99 NZD
Category: Maori History | Reading Level: near fine
Published in conjunction with the He Tohu exhibition at the National Library. Each book celebrates one of the three founding documents in New Zealand's history He Whakaputanga: The Declaration of Independence (1835), the Treaty of Waitangi: Te Tiriti o Waitangi (1840) and the Women's Suffrage Petition ( ...Show more
He Whakaputanga: The Declaration Independence 1835 by Vincent O'Malley
29.99 NZD
Category: Maori History | Reading Level: near fine
Presenting New Zealand: An Illustrated History by Temple Philip
35.00 NZD
Category: Maori History
A magnificent profile charting New Zealands geography, ecology, social and cultural history, economy and politics enriched throughout by historical artworks, maps and archive photography.
The New Zealand Wars: A Brief History (The New Zealand Series) by Matthew Wright
29.99 NZD
Category: Maori History | Series: The New Zealand Series
From 1845 to 1875, New Zealand experienced a succession of conflicts that stretched from the Bay of Islands to Wellington. What they meant has been debated ever since. To some they were land wars, to others, the Maori wars; lately we are calling them the New Zealand wars. Why were they fought? Who reall ...Show more
Turangawaewae: Identity and Belonging in Aotearoa New Zealand by Edited by Trudie Cain, Ella Kahu, Richard Shaw
50.00 NZD
Category: Maori History
A book for thinkers and participants in New Zealand and global society What is a New Zealander? What does it mean to be a citizen of or a resident in this country? How do we understand what makes New Zealand complex, and unique? And what creates a sense of belonging and identity, both here and in the ...Show more
Nga Taumata: A Portrait of Ngati Kahungunu by Ngati Huata
20.00 NZD
Category: Maori History
This collection of remarkable photographic portraits of Ngati Kahungunu 1870-1906 by Samuel Carnell is accompanied by essays in English and Maori which provide insights into the lives and times of the individuals Carnell photographed. Nga Taumata includes a wealth of historical information and whakapapa ...Show more
The Last Maopo: The Life and First World War Sacrifice of Wiremu Maopo by Tania Simpson
34.99 NZD
Category: Maori History | Reading Level: Near Fine
The incredible, moving story of Wiremu Maopo, the last of his line in an eminent South Island family, who joined the second Maori Contingent and went off to fight in the First World War. Wiremu writes regularly to his friend Virgie, and the story of Wiremu's life is woven around 40 letters that he penne ...Show more
Te Ika a Maori: The Struggle for Maori Fishing Rights by Brian Bargh
45.00 NZD
Category: Maori History | Series: 1st | Reading Level: Near Fine
Maori fishing rights were guaranteed by the Treaty of Waitangi, taken away by Crown actions, and, along with Maori land rights and other grievances, contested throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Finally, after years of struggle in the courts, through the Waitangi Tribunal and in protests, Maori fishing righ ...Show more
Nga Morehu - The Survivors by Judith Binney; Gillian Chaplin
49.99 NZD
Category: Maori History | Reading Level: very good
In eight remarkable oral histories, Ngá Mórehu brings alive the experience of Máori women from the mid-twentieth century. Heni Brown , Reremoana Koopu, Maaka Jones, Hei Ariki Algie, Heni Sunderland, Miria Rua, Putiputi Onekawaand Te Akakura Rua talked with Judith Binney and Gillian Chaplin, sharing stor ...Show more
Land and Politics Ko te Whenua te Utu / Land is the Price: Essays on Maori History by M.P.K Sorrenson
49.99 NZD
Category: Maori History | Reading Level: very good
There are essentially two histories of Aotearoa. First, a long Maori history and secondly a history of Pakeha colonisation and take-over of Aotearoa. The two histories have been repeatedly stitched together . . . . For more than half a century, Keith Sorrenson – one of New Zealand’s leading historians a ...Show more