Research Catalog

Title

Dancing with the King : the rise and fall of the King Country, 1864-1885 / Michael Belgrave.

Author

Belgrave, Michael

Publication

• Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Description

viii, 428 pages : illustrations (some colour); 25 cm

Summary

After the battle of Orakau in 1864 and the end of the war in the Waikato, Tawhiao, the second Maori King, and his supporters were forced into an armed isolation in the Rohe Potae, the King Country. For the next twenty years, the King Country operated as an independent state - a land governed by the Maori King where settlers and the Crown entered at risk of their lives. Dancing with the King is the story of the King Country when it was the King's country, and of the negotiations between the King and the Queen that finally opened the area to European settlement. For twenty years, the King and the Queen's representatives engaged in a dance of diplomacy involving gamesmanship, conspiracy, pageantry and hard headed politics, with the occasional act of violence or threat of it. While the Crown refused to acknowledge the King's legitimacy, the colonial government and the settlers were forced to treat Tawhiao as a King, to negotiate with him as the ruler and representative of a sovereign state, and to accord him the respect and formality that this involved. Colonial negotiators even made Tawhiao offers of settlement that came very close to recognising his sovereign authority.

Subject

• Taawhiao Pootatau Te Wherowhero, 1822-1894
• 1800-1899
• Māori (New Zealand people) > King Country > Government relations
• Tainui (New Zealand people) > Government relations
• Māori (New Zealand people) > King Country > Politics and government > 19th century
• Kīngitanga
• Aukati
• Kōrero nehe
• Kāwanatanga
• Noho-ā-iwi
• Tino rangatiratanga
• Mana whenua
• Taipūwhenuatanga
• King Country (N.Z.) > History > 19th century

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Awards (note)

• Okham New Zealand Book Award for General Non-Fiction, Longlist 2018.

Contents

Stalemate, 1864 -- Making the King Country, 1864-1869 -- 'Kati-Kati-Kati me mutu': Accommodation with violence, 1869-1873 -- The first steps: McLean and Tāwhiao, 1875-1876 -- Impasse: Four hui with Grey, 1878-1879 -- Resisting the court and courting the townsfolk: Rewi and Tāwhiao, 1879-1882 -- Tāwhara Kai Atua: A bridge to nowhere -- 'In the place of the King': Bryce and the leaders of Rohe Pōtae -- The dance of the petitions -- Tāwhiao goes to London -- John Ballance: Paternalist and land activist -- Finale: Turning the sod.

ISBN

• 1869408691
• 9781869408695

OCLC

• 990435338
• SCSB-12536380

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library