Fragments from a contested past : remembrance, denial and New Zealand history / Joanna Kidman, Vincent O'Malley, Liana MacDonald, Tom Roa and Keziah Wallis.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-177).

Introduction / Joanna Kidman and Vincent O'Malley -- Captain Cook, Tuia 250 and the making of public memory / Joanna Kidman -- Notes from the field: visiting Boulcott's Farm and Battle Hill / Liana MacDonald -- Contested memory: Rā Maumahara and Pākeha backlash / Vincent O'Malley and Joanna Kidman -- Remembering the past on the road to war: journeying down the Great South Road / Keziah Wallis and Liana MacDonald -- Little town, big histories: remembrance and denial on the Waikato frontier / Vncent O'Malley -- Te Waha Ngū: sitting with the silence / Tom Road and Joanna Kidman.

"'What a nation or society chooses to remember and forget speaks to its contemporary priorities and sense of identity. Understanding how that process works enables us to better imagine a future with a different, or wider, set of priorities.' History has rarely felt more topical or relevant as, all across the globe, nations have begun to debate who, how and what they choose to remember and forget. In this BWB Text addressing 'difficult histories', a team of five researchers, several from iwi invaded or attacked during the nineteenth-century New Zealand Wars, reflect on these questions of memory and loss locally. Combining first-hand fieldnotes from their journeys to sites of conflict and contestation with innovative archival and oral research exploring the gaps and silences in the ways we engage with the past, this group investigates how these events are remembered - or not - and how this has shaped the modern New Zealand nation."--Publisher description.