While Dragging Our Hearts Behind Us
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Atlas of the New Zealand Wars: Volume One 1834–1864
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Atlas of the New Zealand Wars: Volume One 1834–1864
Early Engagements to the Second Taranaki War
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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: Hōne Heke and FitzRoy, Te Rangitāke and Pratt, warriors and missionaries; and we go where they went: from the flagpole at Kororāreka to Kawiti’s pā at Ruapekapeka, up the Hutt River to Boulcott’s farm, across Taranaki from Waitara to Kaitake pā. Through both tāngata 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 Māori and Pākehā on these islands ever since.
Derek Leask served in New Zealand’s foreign ministry from 1969 to 2012. He was ambassador to the European Union in Brussels from 1994 to 1999, Deputy Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Wellington from 2004 to 2008, and New Zealand’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (and Ambassador to Ireland) from 2008 to 2012. Leask was born in Wellington and has degrees from Victoria University of Wellington (BCA) and the University of Canterbury (MCom, Hons-Economics).
- ISBN-13
- 9781776711291
- Publisher
- Auckland University Press
- Imprint
- Auckland University Press
- Publication date
- 10 April 2025
- Format
- Hardback
- Pages
- 384
- Dimensions
- 290 x 240 mm
- Language
- English
