Beyond the imperial frontier : the contest for colonial New Zealand / Vincent O'Malley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Frontier histories: an introduction -- 2. Cultural encounter on the New Zealand frontier: the meeting of Māori and Pākehā before -- 3. Manufacturing chiefly consent? James Busby and the role of rangatira in the early colonial era -- 4. Beyond Waitangi: post1840 agreements between Māori and the Crown -- 5. English law and the Māori response: a case study from Grey's New institutions in Northland -- 6. Reinventing tribal mechanisms of governance: the emergence of Māori rūnanga and komiti in New Zealand before 1900 -- 7. Te riri ki Waikato: the invasion of Waikato and its aftermath -- 8. The New Zealand Settlements Act 1863 in wider context: local and international precedents for land confistication -- 9. The East Coast petroleum wars: Raupatu and the politics of oil in1860s New Zealand -- 10. Frontier justice? The trial and execution of Kereopa Te Rau -- 11. Reconsidering the origins of the Native Land Court: neo-revisionist challenges to orthodox interpretations -- 13. 'A living thing': the Whakakotahitanga flagstaff and its place in New Zealand history.

"An exploration of the different ways Māori and Pākehā 'fronted' one another - the zones of contact and encounter - across the nineteenth century. Beginning with a pre-1840 era marked by significant cooperation, Vincent O'Malley details the emergence of a more competitive and conflicted post-Treaty world"--Publisher information.