This web feature was written by Steve Watters and produced by the NZHistory.net.nz team.
Links
- Maori Wars – entry from An encyclopaedia of New Zealand (1966) which shows how the wars were thought about half a century ago
- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography – contains biographical information on most of the people mentioned in this feature
- The New Zealand Wars – documentary narrated by James Belich (NZ On Screen)
- Ngā poropiti – Māori prophetic movements (Te Ara)
- Religion and society: Māori religion (Te Ara)
- Ngā hāhi – Māori and Christian denominations: Ringatū and Rātana (Te Ara)
- Ngāi Tūhoe: Resistance: 1866 to 1872 (Te Ara)
- East Coast region: European impact on Māori 1769 to 1869 (Te Ara)
Books
- James Belich, The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian interpretation of racial conflict, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1986
- Judith Binney, Redemption songs: a life of Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1995
- James Cowan, The New Zealand Wars, 2 volumes, reprinted by Government Printer, Wellington, 1983 (see also digitised versions of these volumes)
- David Green, Battlefields of the New Zealand Wars: a visitor’s guide, Penguin, Auckland, 2010
- Danny Keenan, Wars without end / Ngā pakanga o mua, revised edn, Penguin Random House, Auckland, 2021
- Ian McGibbon (ed.), The Oxford companion to New Zealand military history, Oxford University Press, Auckland, 2000
- Vincent O’Malley, The New Zealand Wars / Ngā pakanga o Aotearoa, Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 2019
- Nigel Prickett, Landscapes of conflict: a field guide to the New Zealand Wars, Random House, Auckland, 2002
- Tim Ryan and Bill Parham, The colonial New Zealand wars, Grantham House, Wellington, 2002