The Meeting Place - Maori and Pakeha Encounters, 1642-1840; A Savage Country: The untold story of New Zealand in the 1820s

Abstract

The period bookended by initial Maori-Pakeha contact at one end, and the Treaty of Waitangi and the beginning of mass Pakeha migration at the other, is an under-represented stage of New Zealand history. In his study The Meeting Place, Vincent O'Malley purports to examine 1642-1840. Likewise, in a prequel to his previous studies of New Zealand in the 1830s and the 1840s, Paul Moon's A Savage Country is confined to the 1820s. It is pleasing to see this important time of change, for both Maori and Pakeha, as the focus of further historical investigation.