This book details the background to the Kingitanga and also tells the story of the first king, Potatau Te Wherowhero. It details all the momentous events of Te Wherowhero's life from around 1775 to his death in 1860, including his status as Lord of the Waikato and the famous battles and conflicts with other tribes, his raising up as the First Maori King, and Mana Motuhake, the Maori Kingship, set apart as the symbol of the spiritual and cultural life of the Maori. Pei Te Hurinui's biography of King Potatau tells this story in a Maori voice employing waiata, poetry and whakapapa as well as prose text in English and English translations so that the book is accessible to both Maori language speakers and those with no knowledge of Maori.

An authoritative and comprehensive history of the Pacific islanders from 40,000 BC to the present day.

The Maori language biographies of Maori who appear in The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography Vol 1.

This volume highlights the relevance of globalization and the insights of gender studies and religious studies for feminist theology. It focuses on the changing global contexts for the field and its movement towards new models of theology, distinct from the forms of traditional Christian systematic theology and of secular feminism.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

"Prolix but occasionally shrewd statement on Maori-European relations ... Waitara and the King movement, co-existence of both peoples in various localities, with much on the problems of Raglan, the writer's district, and Wesleyan involvement in land purchases"--Bagnall.