NZ Herald Book of the Year 2016!
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 Maori and Pakeha relations by several generations and allowing the
government to begin to assert the kind of real control over the country that had
eluded it since 1840.Spanning nearly two centuries from first contact through to
settlement and apology, Vincent O'Malley focuses on the human impact of the war,
its origins and aftermath. Based on many years of research and illustrated
throughout, The Great War for New Zealand is a groundbreaking book written in
the conviction that a nation needs to own its history.
Author Biography
Vincent O'Malley is a founding partner of HistoryWorks, a Wellington consultancy
specialising in Treaty of Waitangi research, and is the author of a number of
books on New Zealand history including The Meeting Place: Maori and Pakeha
Encounters, 1642–1840 (Auckland University Press, 2012), which was shortlisted
in the general non-fiction section at the New Zealand Post Book Awards in 2013,
and Beyond the Imperial Frontier: The Contest for Colonial New Zealand (Bridget
Williams Books, 2014).