tross publishing 2018 wellington (4 risultati)

Softcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. ix, 160, [1 (blank)] pages + 30 illustrations on 8 plate leaves. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 209 x 146mm. Colour and black and white illustrations. New Zealand history, Maori history. "'Gate Pa and Te Ranga: the Full Story' describes the historical background for the decision of Ngaiterangi warriors to join the fighting against the British, including their attacks on South Auckland settlers and troops. Ngaiterangi fought as part of a pre-Treaty alliance, formed during the bloody inter-tribal wars of the 1820s and 1830s. The reasons why almost 2,000 British troops were sent to Tauranga in 1864 are more straightforward. Tauranga was not only an important staging post for tribesmen from the East Coast and Bay of Plenty on their way to fight alongside the Kingite rebels in the Waikato, but was also supplying the Kingites with food and gunpowder. It was to stop all this and to impose law and order in what was a rather lawless place the British carried out a military campaign, in co-operation with the loyal Arawa tribe, in and around Tauranga in the first half of 1864." - from blurb on rear cover.

Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. viii, 164 pages + 21 illustrations on 6 plate leaves. Page dimensions: 209 x 147mm. "In the course of creating the New Zealand that we have today, with its law and order, property rights, personal safety and individual freedom, numerous people -both European and friendly Maori - were killed by tribal violence. They gave their lives in the cause of creating order out of anarchy [. . .] In this book some of these brave but unfortunate people are introduced to the modern reader, together with brief details of their lives and of their untimely and brutal deaths, thus bringing to life an aspect of our early history that has been overlooked for far too long. New Zealand's history is being rewritten with a new narrative in favour of the ever growing 'grievance industry'. Int he process real historical events are being swept under the carpet and out of sight if they get in the way of this new agenda." - from blurb on rear cover.

Softcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. September 2018 fourth edition (revised) of a title first published in 2013. 359, [2], 2-47 (table of Treaty settlements), [14 (References)], [5 (Index)] pages + 27 illustrations on 8 plate leaves. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 209 x 147mm. Colour and black and white illustrations. New Zealand history, Maori history. "This is probably the most important book published in recent times as it shows how in 27 years the Treaty of Waitangi has been reinterpreted, the 'partnership' myth created, tribal corporations set up, public assets transferred to those corporations which are now on the brink of securing a special place in a new, treaty based, written constitution. [. . .] In recent years a cadre of self-interested politicians, bureaucrats, judges, lawyers, academics, journalists and tribal leaders have been feeding the public a fake history ('wicked colonialists and noble chiefs'), including a false version of the treaty, so as to feed the ever growing grievance industry and line the pockets of corporate iwi, which has amassed $36.9 billion of assets while paying less tax than other or, more often, no tax at all. Claims to culture, radio waves, petroleum and the like, let alone 'partnership' with the Crown and even sovereignty itself, are modern creations not mentioned in the treaty." - from blurb on rear cover.

Softcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 101, [1 (blank)] pages. Page dimensions: 270 x 179mm. Colour and black and white illustrations. New Zealand history, 19th century. Contents: People on the Move; How the Maori Lived Before 1840; A Treaty Sets Up a National Government; Setting Out to Govern Fairly; Land Disputes in Taranaki; The Maori King Movement; War in Taranaki; Rebellion: The Waikato War; Confiscations and Grey's Offer to Return Land; Ngata Looks Back from the 20th Century; Becoming New Zealanders; Glossary; Timeline. "For over 500 years, Polynesians had New Zealand to themselves. However, towards the end of the 1700s, Europeans started arriving to exploit the resources of the country. A technologically advanced culture began interaction with a Stone Age society, and those connections increased as more and more settlers, mainly British, arrived. This book is abvout those interactions in the 19th century and the impact of colonisation on Maori. The text starts by briefly looking at the history of world migration through to the arrival or Polynesians in the country, the evolution of written laws, and early European interest in New Zealand's seals, whales, flax, timber and other resources. Then it moves on to cover the culture the Maori had established by the early 19th century. The decades of inter-tribal wars were crucial in the reluctant decision by Britain to take on New Zealand as a colony, and the outcome was the farsighted Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. Succeeding chapters look at the extension of British law across the country, which most Maori accepted, but some resisted. Once the North Island wars had ended, peace and colonial development ultimately benefited most Maopri. This book relies heavily on the accounts of the people who were living through the events of the time." - from blurb on rear cover.