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Waitangi : a living treaty / Matthew Wright.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Auckland, New Zealand : Bateman Books, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781869539962
  • 1869539966
Other title:
  • Living treaty
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 993 23
LOC classification:
  • DU436 .W75 2019
Contents:
Foreword / Paul Moon -- Introduction : the Treay as a shared idea -- Deep history -- Worlds in collision -- Imperialism and its leakage -- A declaration of independence -- The 'artful humbug' and others at work -- Signing the treaty -- Spreading the word -- 'Little more than a legal fiction' -- Shadows on the land -- Assertions of empire -- Maoriland -- 'Look to the sun' -- 'The treaty is a fraud' -- A revolution from below -- Judgements of history.
Summary: "Historian Matthew Wright explores the evolution of New Zealand's most historically significant document, the Treaty of Waitangi, from its origins to its place in the present day. From the early cultural collisions between Māori and Pākehā that led to this landmark agreement, to the many reinterpretations that have followed, Waitangi : a living treaty brings the story and concepts of the Treaty to life in this revealing and thought-provoking read"--Back cover.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 993 WRI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A563284B
Book South Campus South Campus Main Collection 993 WRI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Issued 23/09/2024 A563288B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Paul Moon -- Introduction : the Treay as a shared idea -- Deep history -- Worlds in collision -- Imperialism and its leakage -- A declaration of independence -- The 'artful humbug' and others at work -- Signing the treaty -- Spreading the word -- 'Little more than a legal fiction' -- Shadows on the land -- Assertions of empire -- Maoriland -- 'Look to the sun' -- 'The treaty is a fraud' -- A revolution from below -- Judgements of history.

"Historian Matthew Wright explores the evolution of New Zealand's most historically significant document, the Treaty of Waitangi, from its origins to its place in the present day. From the early cultural collisions between Māori and Pākehā that led to this landmark agreement, to the many reinterpretations that have followed, Waitangi : a living treaty brings the story and concepts of the Treaty to life in this revealing and thought-provoking read"--Back cover.

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