Research Catalog

Title

When two cultures meet, the New Zealand experience / John Robinson.

Author

Robinson, John, 1940-

Publication

Wellington [N.Z.] : Tross Pub., c2012.

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Details

Description

280 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 21 cm.

Summary

"This is the story of the meeting of two very different peoples and the steady building of the one nation promised by Hobson at the first signing of the Treaty of Waitangi ... The conflict between some Māori and the government was a direct consequence of cultural stresses and the rebellion of a few tribes against the new authority, and there was little impact on Māori numbers and health from that fighting or from loss of land. Māori have profited considerably from increasing equality ... and, as this book shows, Treaty grievances are not well founded"--Back cover.

Alternative Title

New Zealand experience

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Māori (New Zealand people) > Government relations > 19th century
• Māori (New Zealand people) > Government relations
• Māori (New Zealand people) > Wars
• Noho-ā-iwi
• Kōrero nehe
• Pakanga
• New Zealand > Race relations
• New Zealand > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-275) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part one: First contact (Back to basics ; Societies and cultures ; British society at the time of meeting ; Maori at the time of meeting ; Inter-tribal wars and social collapse) -- Part two: Maori population decline (A damaged society ; The picture from early census data ; Guidance from a model ; The cause was previous war ; Was war a 'minor factor'? ; Was infanticide significant? ; Guidance of research and acceptance of authority ; Equality for women? ; The long recovery) -- Part three: A nation is born (A new and peaceful culture ; Coming together, moves towards a treaty ; The desire and promise of the Treaty of Waitangi ; Maori attacks on Europeans) -- Part four: Conflict (Troubled times ; The killing at Wairau ; Ending fighting in Northland ; Ending fighting around Wellington ; The war at Wanganui ; Land league and King movement ; Taranaki colonists' experiences ; The fatal promise ; Taranaki war ; Fighting in the Waikato ; Pai Marire ; Titokowaru's war ; Te Kooti's war ; Frontier perils, and final peace ; The causes of war) -- Part five: The twentieth century (Maori voices in Parliament ; Apirana Ngata on the Treaty ; The post-war move to the cities ; Rewriting history ; The new apartheid society) -- Part six: Two options for the future (One natiion ; Separation ; Final thoughts).

ISBN

• 9781872970318 (pbk.)
• 1872970311 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 807746884
• SCSB-13293253

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library