Atholl Anderson

I read this book as research for my blog post on Tuturau and Te Puoho.

This was a really good overview of Te Puoho's epic overland march from the top of the South Island to deep in the Otago territory of the Ngai Tahu. Atholl Anderson has synthesised a lot of disparate and often conflicting sources into a coherent narrative. He focuses a lot on the facts - the route, the numbers, the names of participants, without much focus on the background or context of the events or other more subjective matters.… (altro)

"Tangata Whenua portrays the sweep of Māori history from Pacific origins to the twenty-first century. Through narrative and images, it offers an overview of the past, grounded in specific localities and histories. The story begins with the migration of ancestral peoples out of South China, some 5,000 years ago. Moving through the Pacific, these early voyagers arrived in Aotearoa early in the second millennium AD, establishing themselves as tangata whenua in the place that would become New Zealand. By the nineteenth century, another wave of settlers brought new technology, ideas and trading opportunities ? and a struggle for control of the land. Survival and resilience shape the history as it extends into the twentieth century, through two world wars, the growth of an urban culture, rising protest, and Treaty settlements. Today, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Māori are drawing on both international connections and their ancestral place in Aotearoa."--Publisher information.

Selected pages from Google Books http://goo.gl/HJlaqx… (altro)