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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Small 10mm crease to upper corner of rear cover and some leaves at rear. ; 130 pages + 4 plate leaves. Page dimensions: 210 x 146mm. Contents: What were the Musket Wars?; Tribal Conflict; Weapons and Tactics; First Contact with Europeans; Continuing Inter-Tribal War, to 1815; Fighting Increases, 1816-1820; Organised Tribes: Two Great Amiowhenua (Round the Land) Taua, and Conquest of Kawhia; Hongi Hika in England; Explosion of Fighting with Muskets; The Beginning of Cultural Change among Ngapuhi; Bloody Fighting in the South; Continuing Tangle of War: Waikato to Bay of Plenty; Two Local Squabbles; Calls for Help and Transformation of a Culture; Consequences; Appendix; Glossary; References; Endnotes. "This is a brief account for the general reader of the deadliest and most gruesome chapter in New Zealand's history - the Musket Wars in which around one third of the Maori population were killed. The wars were a continuation of the inter-tribal fighting that had been a feature of native life ever since the tribes arrived in New Zealand in their canoes but the introduction of muskets increased the killing to an industrial scale. Tribes were decimated and forced from their homelands, usually to poorer land, and to attack others, bringing bloodshed, widespread insecurity and social breakdown. Deaths demanded revenge (utu) and more killing. The resulting arms race created an economy based on the frantic production of flax and other goods to be traded for ever more muskets as a matter of self-presevation. Eventually northern chiefs, who had had the most contact with European traders, sea captains, etc., realised the futility of the constant fighting which, had it continued, might well have driven the tribes to extinction. They began to listen to the missionaries and sought a single sovereign power that would be strong enough to keep the peace among tribes; that could only be the British Crown. They themselves became part of the massive cultural change in Maoridom, starting the movement away from the old divisive and tribal ways towards a more collective and peaceful approach to issues." - from blurb on rear cover.

Softcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 130 pages + 4 plate leaves. Page dimensions: 210 x 146mm. Contents: What were the Musket Wars?; Tribal Conflict; Weapons and Tactics; First Contact with Europeans; Continuing Inter-Tribal War, to 1815; Fighting Increases, 1816-1820; Organised Tribes: Two Great Amiowhenua (Round the Land) Taua, and Conquest of Kawhia; Hongi Hika in England; Explosion of Fighting with Muskets; The Beginning of Cultural Change among Ngapuhi; Bloody Fighting in the South; Continuing Tangle of War: Waikato to Bay of Plenty; Two Local Squabbles; Calls for Help and Transformation of a Culture; Consequences; Appendix; Glossary; References; Endnotes. "This is a brief account for the general reader of the deadliest and most gruesome chapter in New Zealand's history - the Musket Wars in which around one third of the Maori population were killed. The wars were a continuation of the inter-tribal fighting that had been a feature of native life ever since the tribes arrived in New Zealand in their canoes but the introduction of muskets increased the killing to an industrial scale. Tribes were decimated and forced from their homelands, usually to poorer land, and to attack others, bringing bloodshed, widespread insecurity and social breakdown. Deaths demanded revenge (utu) and more killing. The resulting arms race created an economy based on the frantic production of flax and other goods to be traded for ever more muskets as a matter of self-presevation. Eventually northern chiefs, who had had the most contact with European traders, sea captains, etc., realised the futility of the constant fighting which, had it continued, might well have driven the tribes to extinction. They began to listen to the missionaries and sought a single sovereign power that would be strong enough to keep the peace among tribes; that could only be the British Crown. They themselves became part of the massive cultural change in Maoridom, starting the movement away from the old divisive and tribal ways towards a more collective and peaceful approach to issues." - from blurb on rear cover.