Belich, James, 1956-

Making peoples : a history of the New Zealanders : from Polynesian settlement to the end of the nineteenth century / James Belich. - 497 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Examines Māori and Pākehā backgrounds, Māori settlement and pre-contact history ... re-interprets Māori-European relations from 1642 to the early 1900s ... traces European settlement ... the colonisation ... the colonial economy and society and re-examines the origins of Pākehā"--Jacket.

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Māori (New Zealand people)--History
Māori (New Zealand people)--First contact with Europeans


New Zealand--History--To 1840
New Zealand--History--19th century
New Zealand--Colonization

DU420 / .B444 1996

993.01