Danny Keenan

A captivating and incisive account of New Zealand's Land Wars - from a Māori perspective. From the earliest days of European settlement in New Zealand, Māori have struggled to hold on to their land. Tensions began early, arising from disputed land sales. When open conflict between Māori and Imperial forces broke out in the 1840s and 1860s, the struggles only...

This is an account of the life and times of Te Whiti o Rongomai set against the politics and Crown policies of the nineteenth century. It traces the forces that shaped his life's journey from Ngamotu, where he was born, to his settling at Parihaka and his evolving sense of the injustices and disempowerment Maori experienced and his response to...

This comprehensive history of Aotearoa New Zealand, written entirely from Māori viewpoints using Māori customary structures, takes a fresh look at what Māori history is and how it differs from that formerly portrayed. As a postcolonial history, it provides a range of fresh views on past events. Written by sixteen Māori scholars, including two Knights of the Realm, all specialists...