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Treaty of Waitangi - BWB eBooks

The BWB Treaty of Waitangi Collection is a rich online resource for Waitangi Day. This digital collection gives users access to a range of landmark resources on the history of the Treaty and its ongoing relevance today.

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  • The Treaty of Waitangi Collection

    the Online Home for Treaty Scholarship

    This collection is your first stop for any research on the Treaty of Waitangi
    eBook, 2016–Wellington, New Zealand : Bridget Williams Books, 2016- — 993.01 TRE
  • The Treaty of Waitangi

    Te Tiriti O Waitangi : An Illustrated History

    Orange, Claudia, 1938-
    In this new edition of her popular illustrated history, Dr Orange brings the narrative of Te Tiriti/Treaty up to date, covering major developments in iwi claims and Treaty settlements - including the 'personhood' established for the Whanganui River…
    Website or Online Data, 2021Wellington : Bridget Williams Books, 2021. — DIGITAL
  • Since its publication in 1987, Claudia Orange’s book has become the standard guide to one of the key documents in New Zealand history, selling over 40,000 copies.
    eBook, 2011Wellington, N.Z. : Bridget Williams Books, 2011. — 993.021 ORA
  • This book builds on Claudia Orange’s award-winning Treaty of Waitangi, using a wonderful range of photographs, maps and paintings to bring the Treaty’s history to life.
    eBook, 2004Wellington, N.Z. : Bridget Williams Books, 2004. — 993.021 ORA
  • Te Tiriti O Waitangi

    The Treaty of Waitangi.1840

    In May 2017 the exhibition He Tohu opened at the National Library in Wellington. This celebrates three founding documents in New Zealand’s history – He Whakaputanga: The Declaration of Independence (1835), the Treaty of Waitangi: Te Tiriti o…
    eBook, 2017Wellington, New Zealand : Bridget Williams Books, 2017. — DIGITAL
  • This lively account tells the story of the Treaty from its signing in 1840 through the debates and struggles of the nineteenth century to the gathering political momentum of recent decades.
    eBook, 2013Wellington, N.Z. : Bridget Williams Books, 2013. — 993.021 ORA
  • Tangata Whenua: A History presents a rich narrative of the Māori past from ancient origins in South China to the twenty-first century. The authoritative text is drawn directly from the award-winning Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History
    eBook, 2014[Wellington] : Bridget Williams Books, [2014] — 305.8994 AND
  • Who said what to whom when the Treaty was negotiated - and what lay behind subsequent misunderstandings about its wording?
    eBook, 2014Wellington, New Zealand : Bridget Williams Books, 2014. — 993.021 ORA
  • The settlement of iwi claims under the Treaty of Waitangi has drawn international attention, as other nations seek ways to build new relationships between indigenous peoples and the state.
    eBook, 2012Wellington, N.Z. : Bridget Williams Books with the New Zealand Law Foundation, 2012. — 323.11994 TRE
  • The Waitangi Tribunal

    Te Roopu Whakamana I Te Tiriti O Waitangi

    The Waitangi Tribunal sits at the heart of the Treaty settlement process, with a unique remit to investigate claims and recommend settlements. But although the claims process has been hugely controversial, little has been written about the Tribunal…
    eBook, 2004Wellington, N.Z. : Bridget Williams Books, 2004. — 346.043 WAI
  • These essays explore sidepaths and previously unexamined histories. They notably delve into the lives of powerful early Māori figures, including the prophets Rua Kenana and Te Kooti, their wives and their descendants, and the leaders of the Urewera.
    eBook, 2016Wellington, New Zealand : Bridget Williams Books, 2016. — 993.425 BIN
  • Redemption Songs

    a Life of Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki

    Binney, Judith, 1940-2011
    Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki was one of the nineteenth century’s most significant leaders. In both war and peace, he sought to redeem his people and the land. Yet his reputation as a feared opponent of colonial forces obscured his achievements for…
    eBook, 2016Wellington, New Zealand : Bridget Williams Books, 2016 — 993.022 TE
  • A monumental new account of the defining conflict in New Zealand history. It was war in the Waikato in 1863–64 that shaped the nation in all kinds of ways: setting back Māori and Pākehā relations by several generations and allowing the government to…
    eBook, 2016Wellington, New Zealand : Bridget Williams Books 2016. — 993.022 OMA
  • The Shaping of History

    Essays From the New Zealand Journal of History, 1967-1999

    The Shaping of History brings together a selection of essays from its first 30 years by some of the nation’s best-known historians, including Judith Binney, Tipene O’Regan, Claudia Orange, Barbara Brookes, Alan Ward, Jock Phillips and Jamie Belich.…
    eBook, 2017Wellington, New Zealand : Bridget Williams Books, 2017 — 993 SHA
  • For Europeans during the nineteenth century, the Urewera was a remote wilderness; for those who lived there, it was a sheltering heartland. This history documents the first hundred years of the ‘Rohe Pōtae’ (the ‘encircled lands’ of the Urewera)…
    eBook, 2016Wellington, New Zealand : Bridget Williams Books, 2016. — 333.00993 BIN
  • One of the earliest sites of Māori-Pākehā contact, Hauraki became a hotly contested region in the first 100 years of European settlement. Rich in timber, gold and other resources, it became a site of loss and devastation for Māori as the land was…
    eBook, 2016Wellington, New Zealand : Bridget Williams Books, 2016. — 993.24 MON
  • The archetypal story of Thomas Kendall, a self-torturing, struggling missionary in nineteenth century New Zealand, is also a remarkable history of cross-cultural experience. Posted to New Zealand in 1814, Kendall was immensely devout but entirely…
    eBook, 2016Wellington, New Zealand : Bridget Williams Books, 2016. — 993.01 KEN
  • Beyond the Imperial Frontier

    the Contest for Colonial New Zealand

    O'Malley, Vincent, 1967-
    Frontiers in colonial New Zealand were not simply lines on maps, but zones of contact and encounter.Beyond the Imperial Frontier explores these zones to discover the different ways Māori and Pākehā ‘fronted’ one another across the nineteenth…
    eBook, 2014Wellington, New Zealand : Bridget Williams Books, 2014. — 993.02 OMA
  • 'I Shall Not Die'

    Titokowaru's War, 1868-1869

    Belich, James, 1956-
    Leading historian James Belich presents Titokowaru, a Taranaki chief in the 1860s, as one of the great figures of New Zealand history. A leader in peace and war, he ran a stunning military campaign against colonial forces as he sought to save his…
    eBook, 2010Wellington, N.Z. : Bridget Williams Books, 2010. — 993.022 BEL
  • An Unsettled History

    Treaty Claims in New Zealand Today

    Ward, Alan, 1935-2014
    An Unsettled History squarely confronts the issues arising from the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand today. Alan Ward writes lucidly about the Treaty claims process, about settlements made, and those to come.
    eBook, 1999Wellington, N.Z. : Bridget Williams Books, 1999. — 346.043 WAR