Encircled Lands Te Urewera, 1820-1921 By Judith Binney. First Edition

Encircled Lands Te Urewera, 1820-1921 By Judith Binney.

Publisher: Bridget Williams Books Limited, 2009, First Edition, 1st printing. SCARCE. Out of print.

Excellent hardback with jacket, no inscriptions, tiny bump to top corner and base of spine, minor marks. Minor fading & shelf-wear to the jacket. 670 pages with illustrations.

For Europeans during the nineteenth century, the Urewera was a remote and savagely enticing wilderness; for those who lived there, it was a sheltering heartland. This history documents the first hundred years of the 'Rohe Potae' (the 'encircled lands' of the Urewera) following European contact. The text describes how the idea of internal self-government for Tuhoe was born - and for a period partly realised. It provides the historical context for an idea that has come again to the 'negotiating table': Tuhoe's quest for a constitutional agreement that restores their 'nationhood'. Heavy book and will need extra shipping costs overseas.

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