Ask that Mountain
Ask that Mountain

Author: Dick Scott

Publisher: Raupo

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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Journalist and historian Dick Scott broke new ground with ASK THAT MOUNTAIN. The book draws on official papers, settler manuscripts and oral histories to give the first complete account of what took place at Parihaka, the small settlement at the foot of Mount Taranaki where the chiefs Te Whiti and Tohu opposed the colonial government in the latter half of the nineteenth century - making one of the world's first recorded campaigns of passive resistance.

Parihaka
Parihaka

Author: Te Miringa Hohaia

Publisher: Victoria University Press

Published: 2006-04

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780864735201

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"Drawing on previously unpublished manuscripts, many of the teachings and sayings of Te Whiti and Tohu - in Maori and English - are reproduced in full with extensive annotation by Te Miringa Hohaia. Parihaka: The Art of Passive Resistance reaches beyond the art and literary worlds to engage with cultural issues important to all citizens of Aotearoa New Zealand."--Jacket.

Parihaka Invaded
Parihaka Invaded

Author: Dick Scott

Publisher: Bridget Williams Books

Published: 2014-10-02

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 1927277795

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The non-violent defiance of Te Whiti-o-Rongomai, Tohu Kakahi and their followers at Parihaka is one of the great New Zealand narratives. This extract from the book by journalist Dick Scott that brought the story to the wider Pākehā world describes what happened when troops and settler volunteers invaded the village of Parihaka on 5 November 1881.

The Parihaka Woman
The Parihaka Woman

Author: Witi Ihimaera

Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

Published: 2011-10-07

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1869797302

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A wonderfully surprising, inventive and deeply moving riff on fact and fiction, history and imagination from one of New Zealand's finest and most memorable storytellers. There has never been a New Zealand novel quite like The Parihaka Woman. Richly imaginative and original, weaving together fact and fiction, it sets the remarkable story of Erenora against the historical background of the turbulent and compelling events that occurred in Parihaka during the 1870s and 1880s. Parihaka is the place Erenora calls home, a peaceful Taranaki settlement overcome by war and land confiscation. As her world is threatened, Erenora must find within herself the strength, courage and ingenuity to protect those whom she loves. And, like a Shakespearean heroine, she must change herself before she can take up her greatest challenge and save her exiled husband, Horitana.

The Fox Boy
The Fox Boy

Author: Peter Walker

Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 9780747558057

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Mutual kidnapping between the Maori and the English inhabitants in New Zealand had dated back to the 1760s. In 1869, After an English defeat in battle in the Taranaki forest, one more Maori boy, aged five, was captured and adopted by the Prime Minister, and educated to become a lawyer and an 'English gentleman'. As the story of this little Maori unfolded Peter Walker discovered that he had played a crucial role in New Zealand's history. More surprisingly as he followed Ngataua Omahuru (or little 'William Fox') out of the forest and into the drawing rooms of Wellington and London, he found himself on a personal journey which converged unexpectedly with tale he had uncovered.

The Laws of Yesterday’s Wars
The Laws of Yesterday’s Wars

Author: Samuel C. Duckett White

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-12-20

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9004464298

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This book offers an exploration of unique laws and customs placed around warfare throughout history, from Indigenous Australians to the American Civil War.

The Spirit of Colin McCahon
The Spirit of Colin McCahon

Author: Zoe Alderton

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2015-02-27

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 1443875937

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The Spirit of Colin McCahon provides a vivid historical contextualisation of New Zealand’s premier modern artist, clearly explaining his esoteric religious themes and symbols. Via a framework of visual rhetoric, this book explores the social factors that formed McCahon’s religious and environmental beliefs, and justifications as to why his audience often missed the intended point of spiritual his discourse – or chose to ignore it. The Spirit of Colin McCahon tracks the intricate process by which the artist’s body of work turned from optimism to misery, and explains the many communicative techniques he employed in order to arrest suspicion towards his Christian prophecy. More broadly, The Spirit of Colin McCahon outlines a model of analysis for the intersection of art and religion, and the place of images as rhetorical devices within Antipodean culture. The emerging field of religion and visual culture is important not only to students of New Zealand art history, but also to a growing field of appreciation for the communicative power of images. This book provides a helpful model for examining art and literature as social and religious tools, and advances the importance of visual rhetoric within studies of art and social expression.

Nonviolent Action
Nonviolent Action

Author: Ronald M. McCarthy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-07-04

Total Pages: 762

ISBN-13: 1135067538

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This comprehensive guide to research, sources, and theories about nonviolent action as a technique of struggle in social and political conficts discusses the methods and techniques used by groups in various encounters. Although violence and its causes have received a great deal of attention, nonviolent action has not received its due as an international phenomenon with a long history. An introduction that explains the theories and research used in the study provides a practical guide to this essential bibliography of English-language sources. The first part of the book covers case-study materials divided by region and subdivided by country. Within each country, materials are arranged chronologically and topically. The second major part examines the methods and theory of nonviolent action, principled nonviolence, and several closely related areas in social science, such as conflict analysis and social movements. The book is indexed by author and subject.

The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict
The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict

Author: James Belich

Publisher: Auckland University Press

Published: 2015-02-16

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1775582000

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First published in 1986, James Belich's groundbreaking book and the television series based upon it transformed New Zealanders' understanding of New Zealand's great "civil war": struggles between Maori and Pakeha in the 19th century. Revealing the enormous tactical and military skill of Maori, and the inability of the Victorian interpretation of racial conflict to acknowledge those qualities, Belich's account of the New Zealand Wars offered a very different picture from the one previously given in historical works. This bestselling classic of New Zealand history and Belich's larger argument about the impact of historical interpretation resonates today.