Story: New Zealand Wars

More links and websites

• New Zealand’s internal wars

  NZ History’s extensive section on the New Zealand Wars.

• The New Zealand wars: a history of the Maori campaigns and the pioneering period: volume I (1845–64)

  The first volume of James Cowan’s history of the wars, originally published in 1922.

• The New Zealand wars: a history of the Maori campaigns and the pioneering period: volume II: the Hauhau wars (1864–72)

  The second volume of James Cowan’s history of the wars, originally published in 1923.

• Te Ruapekapeka

  This multi-media site created by the Department of Conservation and Te Ruapekapeka Trust is an excellent introduction to both the Northern war and the Te Ruapekapeka site.

More suggestions and sources

• Belich, James. The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian interpretation of racial conflict. Auckland: Penguin, 1986.
• Green, David. Battlefields of the New Zealand Wars: a visitor’s guide. Auckland: Penguin, 2010.
• O'Malley, Vincent. The Great War for New Zealand: Waikato 1800–2000. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2016.
• O'Malley, Vincent. The New Zealand Wars | Ngā pakanga o Aotearoa. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2019.
• O'Malley, Vincent. Voices from the New Zealand Wars | He reo nō ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2021.
• Ryan, Tim, and Bill Parham. The colonial New Zealand wars. Wellington: Grantham House, 2002.
• Sinclair, Keith. The origins of the Maori Wars. Auckland: Auckland University Press, Oxford University Press, 1974.
• Wright, Matthew. Two peoples, one land: the New Zealand Wars. Auckland: Reed, 2006.