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280 pages : maps Contents: Frontier histories -- Cultural encounter on the New Zealand frontier: the meeting of Māori and Pākehā before 1840 -- Manufacturing chiefly consent? James Busby and the role of rangatira in the early colonial era -- Beyond Waitangi: post-1840 agreements between Māori and the Crown -- English law and the Māori response: a case study from Grey's New institutions in Northland -- Reinventing tribal mechanisms of governance: the emergence of Māori rūnanga and komiti in New Zealand before 1900 -- Te riri ki Waikato: the invasion of Waikato and its aftermath -- The New Zealand Settlements Act 1863 in wider context: local and international precedents for land confistication -- The East Coast petroleum wars: Raupatu and the politics of oil in 1860s New Zealand -- Frontier justice? The trial and execution of Kereopa Te Rau -- Reconsidering the origins of the Native Land Court: neo-revisionist challenges to orthodox interpretations -- The curious case of Tiritiri Matangi Island: terra nullius New Zealand-style? -- 'A living thing': the Whakakotahitanga flagstaff and its place in New Zealand history 7 MaoriLibrarian's Miscellania
Vincent O'Malley
