Atlas of the New Zealand Wars: Volume One 1834-1864, Early Engagements to the Second Taranaki War: 1

In the Atlas of the New Zealand Wars, five decades of maps and plans from 1834 to 1884 provide remarkable new insight into the deep
conflicts running through nineteenth-century Aotearoa.



Beginning with early skirmishes off the Taranaki coast
and at the Chathams, Volume One follows
the tracks inland from the Bay of Islands towards the Hokianga in the Northern
Wars; it reveals the web of Te Rauparaha’s influence radiating out from Kapiti
to Port Nicholson and across Cook Strait to the Wairau; it takes us inside the
barracks and ramparts of the colony’s new towns; and concludes as the brewing unrest
around Waitara in Taranaki explodes into war.



Through the maps, we meet
the people: Hone Heke and FitzRoy, Te Rangitake and Pratt, warriors and missionaries; and we go where they went:
from the flagpole at Kororareka to Kawiti’s pa at Ruapekapeka, up the Hutt
River to Boulcott’s farm, across Taranaki from Waitara to Kaitake pa. Through
both tangata and whenua we understand the conflicts and their consequences
anew.



Based on thirty years of research, the Atlas of the New
Zealand Wars reveals a
complex series of challenges and misunderstandings, skirmishes and negotiations,
battles and wars that have profoundly shaped the lives of Maori and Pakeha on
these islands ever since.

Format: Hardback
Pages: 384
Imprint: Auckland University Press
Publication date: 10/04/2025