This web feature was written by David Green and produced by the NZHistory.net.nz team.
Links
- New Zealand Wars (Te Ara) - a summary of the campaigns of the New Zealand Wars
- Katikara Memorial – on the Ministry for Culture and Heritage website
- Maori Wars – entry from An encyclopaedia of New Zealand (1966) which shows how the wars were thought about 60 years ago
- New Zealand Wars – a site run by Dr Danny Keenan
- Digitised texts relating to the New Zealand Wars – on the NZ Electronic Text Collection website (includes the James Cowan volumes mentioned above)
- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography – contains biographical information about many of the people mentioned in this feature
- The New Zealand Wars - documentary by James Belich (NZ On Screen)
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
- Ron Crosby, The forgotten wars: why the Musket Wars matter today, Oratia Books, Auckland, 2020
- David Green, Battlefields of the New Zealand Wars: a visitor’s guide, Penguin, Auckland, 2010
- Vincent O’Malley, The great war for New Zealand, Waikato 1800–2000, Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 2016
- 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, 1986
- Matthew Wright, Two peoples, one land, Reed, Auckland, 2006