Research Catalog

Title

Gilbert Mair : Te Kooti's nemesis / Ron Crosby.

Author

Crosby, R. D. (Ron D.)

Publication

Auckland [N.Z.] : Reed, 2004.

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Details

Description

352 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (chiefly col.); 25 cm.

Summary

Mair was one of the stand-out figures of nineteeth- and early twentieth-century New Zealand.

Subject

• Mair, Gilbert
• Te Kooti, 1830?-1893
• 1860-1872
• Soldiers > New Zealand > Biography
• Surveyors > New Zealand > Biography
• New Zealand > Ethnic relations
• New Zealand > Race relations
• New Zealand > History > New Zealand Wars, 1860-1872
• New Zealand > History > 19th century

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 336-338) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

List of maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Part 1. Youth and early career -- 1. The Mair family -- 2. The outbreak of war -- 3. First Rotorua engagement -- 4. Te Kooti -- Part 2. The pursuit of Te Kooti -- 5. Whakatane conflicts -- 6. First Urewera campaign -- 7. Second Rotorua engagement -- 8. No. 1 Arawa flying column -- 9. Waipaoa -- 10. The aftermath of Waipaoa -- 11. The transition to peace -- Part 3. The postwar years -- 12. Land purchase -- 13. Years of hope and sadness -- 14. Mair's roles in history and with Maori -- Appendix I. Retracing the steps of Gilbert Mair in the Urewera -- Appendix II. Mair -- Deveron, Banffshire, Scotland -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index.

ISBN

0790009692 (pbk.)

LCCN

2004444335^^

OCLC

• 56778056
• SCSB-11791573

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library