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Te Puea : a life

Title: Te Puea : a life / Michael King.
Author: King, Michael, 1945-2004.
Publication: Auckland [N.Z.] : Reed, 2003.

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Description

372 p. : ill., maps, ports.,; 24 cm.

Summary

"Te Puea Herangi, whom Professor John Pocock identified as 'possibly the most influential woman in our political history', wanted an honest biography of her turbulent life. 'I want the truth told and nothing but the truth, ' she told a Pakeha journalist. Michael King has written such a book. He did so with the full support of Te Puea's tribe, Tainui, and of her surviving family and protégés. When this book first appeared in 1977 it was hailed as the best book written by or about a New Zealander. The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature said it was so far an advance on anything published previously that it was without precedent. It remains so."--Publisher description.

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies
History

Note

Previous ed.: Sceptre, 1987.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-359) and index.

Contents

Prologue -- 1. Early years -- 2. Return to the river -- 3. Consolidation -- 4. Conscription and Pai Marire -- 5. Turangawaewae : preparations -- 6. Turangawaewae : the long march -- 7. An end to isolation -- 8. Mahinarangi : a coming together -- 9. Back to the land -- 10. Tohunga and parsons -- 11. A river culture -- 12. War and politics -- 13. Raupatu and other causes -- 14. Return of Ru and conflicts -- 15. Churches, schools and alcohol -- 16. Last years -- 17. Towards Te Rerenga Wairua -- Epilogue : resolution of Raupata.

ISBN

0790008793 (pbk.)
9780790008790 (pbk.)
9780143011422
0143011421

LCCN

2003447067

OCLC

ocm52860290
52860290
SCSB-1378872

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library