Although there have been recent works on the origins and consequences of the 19th-century New Zealand Wars, this is the first thorough reexamination of their course in over sixty years. According to the author, "The degree of Maori success in all four major wars is still underestimated--even to the point where, in the case of one war, the wrong side is said to have won." Here, Belich sets out to show how historical distortions have arisen over time revises our understanding of New Zealand history.
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Although there have been recent works on the origins and consequences of the 19th-century New Zealand Wars, this is the first thorough reexamination of their course in over sixty years. According to the author, "The degree of Maori success in all four major wars is still underestimated--even to the point where, in the case of one war, the wrong side is said to have won." Here, Belich sets out to show how historical distortions have arisen over time revises our understanding of New Zealand history.
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Harris, R. M. (Sketch Maps) Good in good dust jacket. Previous owner's embossed stamp on t-p. DJ has some wear, wrinkling, and soiling. RARE FIRST NEW ZEALAND EDITION! ! ! 396 p. Maps. Glossary. References. Bibliography. Index. From Wikipedia: "James Christopher Belich, ONZM (born 1956), is a New Zealand historian, known for his work on the New Zealand Wars and New Zealand history more generally. One of his major works on the 19th century clash between Maori and Pakeha, the "revisionist" study The New Zealand Wars (1986), was also published in an American edition and adapted into a television series and DVD. He is currently Beit Professor of Imperial and Commonwealth History, and the Director of the Oxford Centre for Global History. Of Croat descent, he was born in Wellington in 1956, the son of Sir James Belich, who later became Mayor of Wellington. He gained an M.A. in history at Victoria University before being awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1978 and travelling to Oxford to complete his D. Phil at Nuffield College. He lectured at Victoria University of Wellington for several years before moving to the University of Auckland. In 2007 he was appointed Professor of History at the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies at Victoria University. The New Zealand Wars (1986) was based on his DPhil thesis, and won the international Trevor Reese Memorial Prize. It was later turned into a major documentary series for Television New Zealand. Belich has written a two-volume work A History of the New Zealanders, consisting of Making Peoples (1996) and Paradise Reforged (2001)."
