This web feature was written by Steve Watters and produced by the NZHistory.net.nz team.
Links
- Maori Wars – entry from An encyclopaedia of New Zealand (1966) which shows how the wars were thought about half a century ago
- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography – contains biographical information on most of the people mentioned in this feature
- The New Zealand Wars – documentary narrated by James Belich (NZ On Screen)
- Ngā poropiti – Māori prophetic movements (Te Ara)
- Religion and society: Māori religion (Te Ara)
Books
- James Belich, The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian interpretation of racial conflict, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1986
- James Belich, ‘I shall not die’: Titokowaru’s War, New Zealand, 1868–9, Allen & Unwin New Zealand/Port Nicholson Press, Wellington, 1989
- James Cowan, The adventures of Kimble Bent, Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd, London, 1911 (see also digitised version of this text)
- James Cowan, The New Zealand Wars, 2 volumes, reprinted by Government Printer, Wellington, 1983 (see also digitised versions of these volumes)
- David Green, Battlefields of the New Zealand Wars: a visitor’s guide, Penguin, Auckland, 2010
- Danny Keenan, Wars without end / Ngā pakanga o mua, revised edn, Penguin Random House, Auckland, 2021
- Ian McGibbon (ed.), The Oxford companion to New Zealand military history, Oxford University Press, Auckland, 2000
- Vincent O’Malley, The New Zealand Wars / Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa, Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 2019
- Nigel Prickett, Landscapes of conflict: a field guide to the New Zealand Wars, Random House, Auckland, 2002
- Tim Ryan and Bill Parham, The colonial New Zealand wars, Grantham House, Wellington, 2002
