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Maori Wars of the Nineteenth Century - The Struggle of the Northern against the Southern Maori Tribes Prior to the Colonisation of New Zealand in 1840 (Paperback)
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Maori Wars of the Nineteenth Century - The Struggle of the Northern against the Southern Maori Tribes Prior to the Colonisation of New Zealand in 1840 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania
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Stephenson Percy Smith (1840-1922) arrived in New Zealand as a boy,
and in early 1858 travelled six hundred miles exploring the
volcanic interior of North Island, including Taupo, Lake Tarawera
and the Tongariro-Ruapehu area, returning via Rangitikei and
Wanganui. He also witnessed the unrest caused by the rapid European
encroachment on Maori lands. After retiring in 1900 from his career
as a government surveyor, Smith devoted himself to the study of the
Maori and co-founded the Polynesian Society, in whose journal this
study originally appeared between 1899 and 1901. Reissued here in
its enlarged second edition of 1910, it deals with the inter-tribal
'Musket Wars' of the early nineteenth century, when different Maori
communities competed for territory shortly before European
settlement began in earnest. Although Smith's interpretations do
not meet modern scholarly standards, his pioneering work still
provides fascinating insights into nineteenth-century Maori
traditions and their colonial reception.
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