This web feature was written by Steve Watters and produced by the NZHistory.net.nz team.
Links
Books
- James Belich, Making peoples: a history of the New Zealanders from Polynesian settlement to the end of the nineteenth century, Penguin, Auckland, 1996
- Trevor Bentley, Pākehā Māori: the extraordinary story of the Europeans who lived as Māori in early New Zealand, Penguin, Auckland, 1999
- Trevor Bentley, Captured by Māori: white female captives, sex and racism on the nineteenth-century New Zealand frontier, Penguin, Auckland, 2004
- Bronwyn Dalley and Gavin McLean (eds), Frontier of dreams: the story of New Zealand, Hodder Moa Beckett, Auckland, 2005
- Paul Moon and Peter Biggs, The Treaty and its times: the illustrated history, Resource Books, Auckland, 2004
- Anne Salmond, Between worlds: early exchanges between Maori and Europeans 1773–1815, Viking, Auckland, 1997