Author: George ClarkePublisher:
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Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Pamphlet in Answer to Mr. James Busby's On the Taranaki Question and the Treaty of Waitangi by Sir William Martin
Author: George ClarkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
The Rise and Fall of James Busby
Author: Paul MoonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135011667X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
One of the British Empire's most troubling colonial exports in the 19th-century, James Busby is known as the father of the Australian wine industry, the author of New Zealand's Declaration of Independence and a central figure in the early history of independent New Zealand as its British Resident from 1833 to 1840. Officially the man on the ground for the British government in the volatile society of New Zealand in the 1830s, Busby endeavoured to create his own parliament and act independently of his superiors in London. This put him on a collision course with the British Government, and ultimately destroyed his career. With a reputation as an inept, conceited and increasingly embittered person, this caricature of Busby's character has slipped into the historical bloodstream where it remains to the present day. This book draws on an extensive range of previously-unused archival records to reconstruct Busby's life in much more intimate form, and exposes the back-room plotting that ultimately destroyed his plans for New Zealand. It will alter the way that Britain's colonisation of New Zealand is understood, and will leave readers with an appreciation of how individuals, more than policies, shaped the Empire and its rule.
The Political Philosophy of Property Rights
Author: Lindsey Te Ata o Tu MacDonaldPublisher: VDM Publishing
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This mongraph reasserts the primacy of property in political theorising. Arguing that the determination of property rights is part of the justification of the state, MacDonald notes the failure of much current philosophising to take account of this role when setting out the normative arguments for legitimate political authority. MacDonald criticises current philosophical definitions of property as a bundle-of-rights, arguing that for normative purposes, property is a right of exclusion in rem. Thereby MacDonald escapes the interminable moral and legal arguments over property - such as questions of Lockean labour theory, self-ownership, and indigenous historical injustice - that have dominated recent political philosophy. Instead, the book focuses on the failure of libertarian and liberal egalitarian theories of justice to produce a plausible account of both legitimate political authority's right to regulate property, and the principles upon which that regulation ought to occur. The book will be of interest to scholars of political philosophy and theory, especially those engaged in the contemporary ideas of justice, legitimacy and the justification of the state.
The Treaty of Waitangi and the Acquisition of British Sovereignty in New Zealand, 1840
Author: James RutherfordPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Pamphlet in Answer to Mr. James Busby's on the Taranaki Question and the Treaty of Waitangi by Sir William Martin (late Chief Justice of New Zealand)
Author: George ClarkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maori (New Zealand people)
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
The Island Broken in Two Halves
Author: Jean Elizabeth RosenfeldPublisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
"The Maori "history of struggle" is unique only in its relative success. The British enterprise of colonization and Christianization stimulated the formation of Maori renewal movements to hold fast to their threatened land. The study of these movements elucidates how human beings in general use the sacred to bridge the abyss between old and new worlds during the trauma of invasion and why people turn to religion as a paramount means of salvation from despair."--BOOK JACKET.
The New Zealand Journal of History
Author: New Zealand National Bibliography to the Year 1960
Author: Austin Graham BagnallPublisher: Wellington : A.R. Shearer, Government printer, 1969 [i.e. 1970]-(80)
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Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Te Rauparaha
Author: Patricia BurnsPublisher: Raupo
ISBN:
Category : Maori (New Zealand people)
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
"Te Rauparaha's notoriety was established even before the first British settlers arrived in New Zealand, and the myth of Te Rauparaha the murderous savage was one which few Europeans felt inclined to explode. It is only in recent years that official documents from the colonial period have become readily available ... and these throw a very different light on the events surrounding the colonisation of the Cook Strait area and the latter part of Te Rauparaha's life from much that had been accepted in the past. What they reveal is the astonishing gap between Maori and European views of colonisation - and of Te Rauparaha. [He] was a man of extraordinary ability ... there could be no denying his achievements as a physically unprepossessing warrior-chief who assumed leadership of a small tribe in a time of danger, led them on a long and hazardous journey to the Kapiti coast and from there conquered vast terrritories. His victories changed for ever life in the southern half of New Zealand ... He was, however, a man of many parts - a leader as skilled in the arts of peace as the arts of war"--Publisher's description.
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