Atlas of the New Zealand Wars. early engagements to the second Taranaki war / Derek Leask.

Author/creator Leask, Derek author.
Format Book
PublicationAuckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2025.
Copyright Date©2025.
Description384 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps (chiefly colour) ; 30 cm + 1 map (folded 25 x 9 cm)
Subjects

Contents Early engagements 1834 & 1838 -- The military and the new colony 1840-1843 -- Conflict at the Wairau 1843 -- War in the North 1845-1845 -- Auckland defences 1845-1860 -- Wellington, Whanganui and Akaroa -- defences and conflict 1840-1848 -- Settlement, conflict and the first Taranaki War 1840-1861 -- The second Taranaki War 1863-1864.
Abstract "In the Atlas of the New Zealand Wars, five decades of maps and plans from 1834 to 1884 provide remarkable new insight into the deep conflicts running through nineteenth-century Aotearoa. Beginning with early skirmishes off the Taranaki coast and at the Chathams, Volume One follows the tracks inland from the Bay of Islands towards the Hokianga in the Northern Wars; it reveals the web of Te Rauparaha's influence radiating out from Kapiti to Port Nicholson and across Cook Strait to the Wairau; it takes us inside the barracks and ramparts of the colony's new towns; and concludes as the brewing unrest around Waitara in Taranaki explodes into war. Through the maps, we meet the people: Hone Heke and FitzRoy, Te Rangitake and Pratt, warriors and missionaries; and we go where they went: from the flagpole at Kororareka to Kawiti's pa at Ruapekapeka, up the Hutt River to Boulcott's farm, across Taranaki from Waitara to Kaitake pa. Through both tangata and whenua we understand the conflicts and their consequences anew. Based on thirty years of research, the Atlas of the New Zealand Wars reveals a complex series of challenges and misunderstandings, skirmishes and negotiations, battles and wars that have profoundly shaped the lives of Maori and Pakeha on these islands ever since."-- Publisher's description.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 364-373) and index.
ISBN9781776711291
ISBN1776711297 (hardback)

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