Unrestrained slaughter : the Māori Musket Wars 1800-1840 / John Robinson.
Publisher: Wellington, New Zealand : Tross Publishing, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 130 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cmISBN:- 9781872970684
- 1872970680
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Panapa Māori Resources | John Kinder Theological Library | DU423.W35 ROB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | A42346191 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-127).
What were the Musket Wars? -- Tribal conflict -- Weapons and tactics -- First contact with Europeans -- Continuing Inter-tribal war, to 1815 -- Fighting increases, 1816-1820 -- Organised tribes : two great amiowhenua (round the land) taua, and conquest of Kawhia -- Hongi Hika in England -- Explosion of fighting with muskets -- Beginning of cultural change among Ngapuhi -- Bloody fighting in the South -- Continuing tangle of war : Waikato to Bay of Plenty -- Two local squabbles -- Calls for help and transformation of a culture -- Consequences.
"This is a brief account for the general reader of the deadliest and most gruesome chapter in New Zealand's history - the Musket Wars in which around one third of the Maori population were killed. The wars were a continuation of the inter-tribal fighting that had been a feature of native life ever since the tribes arrived in New Zealand in their canoes but the introduction of muskets increased the killing to an industrial scale"--Page 4 of cover.
Contains words and terms in te reo Māori with English translations.