Te Wai Pounamu The Greenstone Island: A History of the Southern Maori During the European Colonization of New Zealand by Harry C. Evison.

Te Wai Pounamu: The Greenstone Island: A History of the Southern Maori During the European Colonization of New Zealand by Harry C. Evison.

Published by Aoraki Press, New Zealand, 1993 First edition.

Very good softcover, no inscriptions, minor marks to page edges, and shelf-wear. 582 pages; b/w maps.

Winner of New Zealand Book Award Non-Fiction Category 1994. When the southernmost corner of Polynesia became the most distant outpost of European expansion, what happened to the indigenous people? This book tells for the first time the story of the 19th-century penetration, annexation and colonization of southern New Zealand by Europeans, as it affected the local Maori inhabitants. This is not just a local history. The story is told in the broader context of New Zealand history and imperial politics. Base on first-hand contemporary sources it is a compelling narrative in which traders, sealers, whalers, missionaries, naval officers, Maori chiefs, colonists, government officials, Governors, judges, Royal Commissioners, politicians, ordinary Maori, academics, and the modern Waitangi Tribunal all have their say

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