Raupatu : the confiscation of Māori land /

Raupatu : the confiscation of Māori land / edited by Richard Boast and Richard S. Hill. - Wellington, N.Z. : Victoria University Press, 2009. - ix, 299 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Overview : confiscation in New Zealand / The historiography of confiscation -- Raupatu : the punitive confiscation of Maori land in the 1860s / Confiscation of land for rebellion - Justification for confiscation - The confiscation model - A tale of six districts : raupatu in practice - Taranaki - Waikato - Tauranga - Eastern Bay of Plenty - Mohaka-Waikare - East Coast -- INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT -- Riders of the whirlwind : tribal peoples and European settlement books, 1790s-1900s / European-indigenous contact - Myth and reality of empire - Explosive settlement - Dispossession - Case studies -- Land seizures and aftershocks : a True History Lesson on Anglo-colonialism / The challenges and appeal of writing True History lessons - A True History Lesson on colonialization's core value set - Lifting the past's dead hand from a True History Lesson -- CONFISCATION IN COLONIAL NEW ZEALAND -- A Savage War of Peace? Motives for government policies towards the Kingitanga, 1857-1863 / Imperialism - Maori-European interaction - Law and war - Comparisons - The fate of Amalgamation in New Zealand - The Waitara Purchase - Kingitanga and the Crown - Governor Grey's policies - Invasions - Raupatu -- Richard Boast and Richard Hill-- Bryan Gilling-- James Belich -- John C. Weaver -- Alan Ward -- PT. ONE: INTRODUCTION -- Ch. 1 Ch. 2 PT. TWO: Ch. 3 Ch. 4 PT. THREE: Ch. 5 An illusionary power? : metropole, colony and land confiscation in New Zealand, 1863-1856 / The shift to responsible government in New Zealand - Confiscation proposals of Grey and the Domett Ministry, June-October 1863 - Grey and the Whitaker-Fox Ministry, November 1863-April 1864 - Grey and the Whitaker-Fox Ministry, April-November 1864 - Grey and the Weld Ministry, November 1864-September 1865 - Implementation of confiscation in Waikato and Taranaki -- RAUPATU AND LAW -- An Expensive Mistake : law, courts and confiscation on the New Zealand colonial frontier / Confiscation and law - Statutory confiscation in New Zealand - The Compensation Court and special commissioners - Confiscation as tenurial revolution - Confiscation and law : some reflections - Directions for research -- Strands from the afterlife of confiscation : property rights, constitutional histories and the political incorporation of Maori, 1920s / legal-historical narratives of Confiscation and the Autonomy of the Crown - Confiscation, law and politics within the Crown - Towards a Royal Commission on Confiscation, 1922-1925 : 'the ventilation of these alleged grievances before some tribunal' - 'The mote having been removed from their eyes' : the Sim Commission, 1925-1928 -- CASE STUDIES -- 'A mild sort of confiscation'? : war and raupatu on the East Coast / Arrival of Pai Marire - Taking the land - Native Land Court operations -- Te Upokokohua : the curse of confiscation on Te Urewera / The significance of Orakau - Invasion, raupatu and resistance - The second raupatu - The aftermath of raupatu -- Michael Allen -- Richard Boast -- Mark Hickford -- Vincent O'Malley -- Judith Binney -- Ch. 6 PT. FOUR: Ch. 7 Ch. 8 Introd. : PT. FIVE: Ch. 9 Ch. 10 LEGACIES OF RAUPATU -- Perpetual leasing in Taranaki, 1880-2009 / 1865-1892 - 1892-1955 - 1955-1975 - 1976-1996 - Maori Reserved Lands Amendment Act 1997 - Effects of dairy industry restructuring -- Raupatu settlement : legal finality and political reality / The background and a declaration of interest - The situation of raupatu claims in 1989 - The post-World War Two settlements - Establishing the principle of redress - Getting negotiations under way - The Deed of Settlement in 1995 - Finality under the Waikato Raupatu Claims Settlement Act 1995 -- Confiscation legislation in New Zealand / Dion Tuuta -- Alex Frame -- compiled by Richard Boast. PT. SIX: Ch. 11 Ch. 12 Appendix :

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Māori (New Zealand people)--Land tenure--History--19th century.
Confiscations--History--New Zealand--19th century.
Confiscations--Law and legislation--New Zealand.
Raupatu
Whenua raupatu
Ringa kaha
Kāwanatanga
Kōrero nehe


New Zealand--History--Confiscations and contributions.--New Zealand Wars, 1860-1872

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