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An award-winning writer: More than two decades of wide-ranging writing from one of Aotearoa’s most respected Māori historians. Māori history: Essays grounded in the conviction that Māori history — foundational and continuous — connects past, present and people across time. Intimate and expansive: From whānau memory...
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In this wide-ranging collection, award-winning historian Aroha Harris brings together more than two decades of writing. The essays move across time and place: from the intimate spaces of whānau memory to Māori land struggles, the quiet determination of nurses, aunties and activists, and the futures our mokopuna might inherit.
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An award-winning writer: More than two decades of wide-ranging
writing from one of Aotearoa’s most respected Māori historians.
Māori history: Essays grounded in the conviction that Māori history
— foundational and continuous — connects past, present and
people across time.
Intimate and expansive: From whānau memory and the teachings of
kuia to land struggles and Māori–Crown relationships.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781991301840
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 October 2026
Country: New Zealand
Imprint: Bridget Williams Books
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 160.0mm
Height: 230.0mm
Weight: 0g
About the Author
Dr Aroha Harris (Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi) MNZM, is an Associate Professor in History at Waipapa Taumata Rau—the University of Auckland. A founding member of Te Pouhere Kōrero, Aroha has also served as President of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association and of the New Zealand Historical Association, and as a member of the Waitangi Tribunal. She is a co-author of the award-winning Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History (BWB, 2014) and co-editor of Maranga! Maranga! Maranga! The Call to Māori History: Essays from Te Pouhere Kōrero, 1999–2023 (BWB, 2024).
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