Maori Wars of the Nineteenth Century
The Struggle of the Northern against the Southern Maori Tribes Prior to the Colonisation of New Zealand in 1840

This 1899–1901 publication (revised 1910) about the New Zealand 'Musket Wars' reveals how Europeans interpreted Maori oral traditions.

S. Percy Smith (Author)

9781108039901, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 December 2011

498 pages, 21 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.8 cm, 0.63 kg

Stephenson Percy Smith (1840–1922) arrived in New Zealand as a boy, and in early 1858 travelled six hundred miles exploring the volcanic interior of North Island, including Taupo, Lake Tarawera and the Tongariro-Ruapehu area, returning via Rangitikei and Wanganui. He also witnessed the unrest caused by the rapid European encroachment on Maori lands. After retiring in 1900 from his career as a government surveyor, Smith devoted himself to the study of the Maori and co-founded the Polynesian Society, in whose journal this study originally appeared between 1899 and 1901. Reissued here in its enlarged second edition of 1910, it deals with the inter-tribal 'Musket Wars' of the early nineteenth century, when different Maori communities competed for territory shortly before European settlement began in earnest. Although Smith's interpretations do not meet modern scholarly standards, his pioneering work still provides fascinating insights into nineteenth-century Maori traditions and their colonial reception.

Preface
The wars of the border-land, Nga-Puhi and others, 1795
Battle of Moremo-nui, Nga-Puha v. Ngati-Whatua, 1807
Further wars on the Border-land, 1808–13
The Great Epidemic, 1810
Early northern expedition to the south, 1810
Muru-paenga's first expedition to Taranaki, 1810
Tau-kawau's first expedition to Taranaki, 1816
Marsden's first visit to Bay of Islands, 1814
Te Morenga and Hongi visit the East Cape, 1818
Tu-whare and Te Rauparaha's expedition to Port Nicholson, 1819–20
Death of Tu-whare, 1820
The Wai-te-mata and Thames, 1820
War at Te Roto-a-Tara, 1819
Death of Nahu, fights at Te Aratipi, etc., 1820
Marsden's visit to Hauraki and Kaipara, 1820
Tareha's expedition to Kaipara, 1820
Cruise's visit to Waitemata and Hauraki, 1820
Te Morenga's visit to the Thames, 1820
Te Morenga's visit to the Tauranga, 1820
Marsden visits Katikati, 1820
Koriwhai's death, 1820
Titore and Te Wera's expedition to East Cape, and fall of Te Whetu-mata-rau, 1820–1
Waipaoa, 1820–1
Te Morenga's visit to Tamaki, death of Koperu, 1820–1
Fall of Mauinaina to Hongi, Nov. 1821
Fall of Te Totara pa to Hongi, Dec. 1821
Pomare's raid on Tuhua, 1822
Death of Te Pae-o-te-rangi at Rotorua, 1822
'Te Amio-whenua' expedition, 1821–2
Battle of Te Motu-nui, Taranaki, Nov. 1821
Fall of Matakitaki to Hongi, May 1822
Pomare's first visit to the Urewera country, 1822
Te Roto-a-Tara (Kaupapa), 1822
Fall of Mokoia, Rotorua, to Hongi, 1823
Pomare and Te Wera-Hamaki's expedition to the south, 1823
Pomare's peace with Ngati-Porou, 1823
Te Wera settles at Te Mahia Peninsula, 1823
Te Wera's doings at Heretaunga, 1824
Te Pakake, 1824
Peace between Nga-Puhi and Waikato, 1824
The 'Coquille' at the Bay of Islands, 1824
Troubles at Whangarei, 1824
Death of Te Toroa and Ragni-wai-tatao, at Wairoa, 1824
Te Mau-tara-nui visits the Bay of Islands, 1824
The fall of Titirangi, Puke-karoro, etc., pas, Hawke's Bay, 1824
Moumou-kai, Wai-kotero, Puke-karoro, 1824
Battle of Te Ika-a-ranga-nui, Kaipara, Feb. 1825
Death of Te Mau-tara-nui, 1826
Fall of Pohatu-roa, Hawke's Bay, 1826
Fall of Waihau, 1826
Fall of Noho-awatea, Waikato, 1825
Pomare's death, 1826
Death of Muru-paenga, 1826
The Wai-te-mata in 1827 (D'Urville's account), 1827
Rangi-tuke's expedition, 1827
Tawa-tawhiti fight, 1827
Rangi-tukia's expedition, 1828
Hongi Hika, his death, 1828
Taking of the 'Hawes', 1829
The death of Ngarara, 1829
The Girls' War, 1830
Ahuahu and Motiti (Te Haramiti's expedition), 1831
Pukerangi's expedition to Waikato, 1832
Titore's first expedition to Tauranga, 1831–2
Matamata, 1932
Titore's second expedition to Tauranga, 1832–3
Puckey's visit to Te Reinga, 1834
Toka-a-kuku, 1836
Expedition to Great Barrier, 1838
The coming of the white man, 1840
Index.

Subject Areas: Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM]