Further information - New Zealand's 19th-century wars

This web feature was written by David Green and produced by the NZHistory.net.nz team.

Links

• Flags of the New Zealand Wars – on the Ministry for Culture and Heritage site 
• Katikara Memorial – on the Ministry for Culture and Heritage website  
• Maori Wars – entry from An encyclopaedia of New Zealand 1966, which indicates how the wars were thought about 40 years ago 
• New Zealand Wars – a site run by Dr Danny Keenan, Associate Professor of Maori Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
• Digitised texts relating to the New Zealand Wars – on the NZ Electronic Text Centre website (includes the James Cowan volumes mentioned above)
• Taranaki wars – good collection of material on the Puke Ariki website
• Dictionary of New Zealand Biography – contains biographical information on most of the people mentioned in this feature (see also the 'Our land our people' section for more general information about the 19th-century wars)
• NZLive.com's page on Rangiriri Pa

Books

• Angela Ballara, Taua: 'Musket Wars', 'Land Wars' or tikanga? Warfare in Maori society in the early nineteenth century, Penguin, Auckland, 2003
• James Belich, The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian interpretation of racial conflict, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1986
• James Cowan, The New Zealand Wars, 2 volumes, reprinted by Government Printer, Wellington, 1983 (see also digitised versions of these volumes)
• R.D. Crosby, The Musket Wars: a history of inter-iwi conflict, 1806–45, Reed, Auckland, 1999
• Prickett, Nigel, Landscapes of Conflict: A Field Guide to the New Zealand Wars, Random House, Auckland, 2002
• Ryan, Tim & Bill Parham, The Colonial New Zealand Wars, Grantham House, Wellington, 1986