COMP CLOSED | Book Giveaway | Atlas of the New Zealand Wars Volume One

Atlas of the New Zealand Wars Vol 1
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We are very pleased to be giving away three copies of Derek Leask’s book, ‘Atlas of the New Zealand Wars Volume One’, to our GrownUps members.

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Atlas of the New Zealand Wars Vol 1About Atlas of the New Zealand Wars Volume One

Mapping the nineteenth-century wars that reshaped Aotearoa New Zealand.

In the Atlas of the New Zealand Wars, five decades of maps and plans from 1834 to 1884 provide remarkable new insight into the deep conflicts running through nineteenth-century Aotearoa.

Beginning with early skirmishes off the Taranaki coast and at the Chathams, Volume One follows the tracks inland from the Bay of Islands towards the Hokianga in the Northern Wars; it reveals the web of Te Rauparaha’s influence radiating out from Kapiti to Port Nicholson and across Cook Strait to the Wairau; it takes us inside the barracks and ramparts of the colony’s new towns; and concludes as the brewing unrest around Waitara in Taranaki explodes into war.

Through the maps, we meet the people: Hōne Heke and FitzRoy, Te Rangitāke and Pratt, warriors and missionaries; and we go where they went: from the flagpole at Kororāreka to Kawiti’s pā at Ruapekapeka, up the Hutt River to Boulcott’s farm, across Taranaki from Waitara to Kaitake pā. Through both tāngata and whenua we understand the conflicts and their consequences anew.

Based on thirty years of research, the Atlas of the New Zealand Wars reveals a complex series of challenges and misunderstandings, skirmishes and negotiations, battles and wars that have profoundly shaped the lives of Māori and Pākehā on these islands ever since.

ENDORSEMENTS

‘Derek Leask’s Atlas is a magnificent labour of love. It adds a whole new — visual — dimension to our understanding of the New Zealand Wars.’ — James Belich, Beit Professor of Global and Imperial History, University of Oxford

‘In this Atlas the maps themselves tell stories: he kura i tangihia – a treasure saluted, remembered, wept over; he maimai aroha – a token of affection which weaves the heavens above and the earth below – kia tuia te rangi e tū nei, kia tuia te papa e takoto nei, and those who have fled their mortal coils – rātou i wehea atu. I await with bated breath the second volume and Derek Leask’s exploration of the war in my homelands of Waikato and Te Rohe Pōtae, the King Country. In the words of our great Rangatira Wahanui: “Hanga paitia tātou kia piri ki te piringa pono.” “Let us conduct ourselves in a proper way so that we may be bound together by a bond of unity.”’ — Tom Roa (Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato, Ngāti Apakura), Professor, University of Waikato

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Derek Leask served in New Zealand’s foreign ministry from 1969 to 2012. He was ambassador to the European Union in Brussels from 1994 to 1999, Deputy Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Wellington from 2004 to 2008, and New Zealand’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (and Ambassador to Ireland) from 2008 to 2012. Leask was born in Wellington and has degrees from Victoria University of Wellington (BCA) and the University of Canterbury (MCom, Hons-Economics).

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