Te Ata o Tū: The Shadow of Tumatauenga

Matiu Baker, Katie Cooper, Michael Fitzgerald and Rebecca Rice (editors)

The New Zealand Wars of 1845-72 were a series of bitter and bloody conflicts between Maori and Pakeha that extended from Wairau to the Bay of Islands, and from Taranaki to the East Cape. They are as important to New Zealand as the civil wars were to England and to the United States. Land and sovereignty...