Wars Without End: New Zealand's Land Wars - A Maori Perspective

Author(s): Danny Keenan

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From the earliest days of European settlement in New Zealand, Māori have struggled to hold on to their land. Tensions began early, arising from disputed land sales. When open conflict between Māori and Imperial forces broke out in the 1840s and 1860s, the struggles only intensified. For both sides, land was at the heart of the conflict, one that casts a long shadow over race relations in modern-day New Zealand.
Wars Without End is the first book to approach this contentious subject from a Māori point of view, focusing on the Māori resolve to maintain possession of customary lands and explaining the subtleties of an ongoing and complex conflict.
Written by senior Māori historian Danny Keenan, Wars Without End eloquently and powerfully describes the Māori reasons for fighting the Land Wars, placing them in the wider context of the Māori struggle to retain their sovereign estates. The Land Wars might have been quickly forgotten by Pakeha, but for Māori these longstanding struggles are wars without end.

This is a completely revised and updated edition of a book first published in 2009.

 


Ihumatao is the latest chapter in this ongoing war. 

 


Dame Whina Cooper's hikoi, Bastion Point, Eva Rickard's battle for the golf course at Raglan are other recent examples. 

 


The point of contention is always the land.

 


In the 1840s the Maori approach of guardianship over the land came up against the settlers' desire to purchase the title to a certain piece of land. The surveyors were moving in. In this book Danny Keenan discusses the intricacies of the maori approach to land ownership.

 


He is from Taranaki so most of the detailed examples used are from that area.

With a public service background [which shows in his writing!] he went on to attain a Fulbright Senior Scholar award to teach New Zealand history in the US. He is now a full time writer living in Whanganui. Required reading really. David

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Danny Keenan is of Ngati Te Whiti ki Te Atiawa descent. He was born in New Plymouth and educated at Pungarehu Primary, New Plymouth Boys’ High School and MasseyUniversity.Keenan has a public service background, mainly the Department of Maori Affairs from1981 to 1989. When the Department was disestablished in 1989, he returned to Massey University, completing a PhD in history in 1994. Appointed lecturer in New Zealand history, he became senior lecturer in 2004.He was a founding member of Te Pouhere Korero, the Maori historians network. In 1995, he was granted a Fulbright Postdoctoral Award to study in the Centre for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library, Chicago. Keenan was granted a further Fulbright Senior Scholar Award in 2009 to teach New Zealand history at Georgetown University, Washington DC.Keenan has published widely on Maori and New Zealand history. His most recent book, TeWhiti O Rongomai and the Resistance of Parihaka, received a Nga Kupu Ora Maori BookAward in 2016. He is now a full-time writer, living in Whanganui.

General Fields

  • : 9780143774938
  • : Penguin Group New Zealand, Limited
  • : UNKNOWN
  • : 0.396
  • : July 2020
  • : 2.8 Centimeters X 15.4 Centimeters X 23.4 Centimeters
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Danny Keenan
  • : Paperback
  • : 2007
  • : 993.02
  • : 288