Browsing by Supervisor "Mahuika, Nepia"
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Key concepts in Māori and iwi histories: A critique of Te Takanga o te Wā (2015)
(The University of Waikato, 2022)In 2019, the New Zealand government announced a “reset” of the national history curriculum, with the intention of including more Māori content and addressing ongoing petitions to make the New Zealand Wars compulsory in all ... -
The Waikato invasion 1863-1864: A counter-insurgency approach
(The University of Waikato, 2022)Counter-insurgency as a strategy has only been explicitly espoused in American and British military tactical manuals in recent decades. It is anachronistic to military terminology before the last half century, but as this ... -
Waata Kukutai: Rangatira o Ngaati Tiipa 1822-1867
(The University of Waikato, 2020)This thesis examines the life of Ngaati Tiipa rangatira Waata Kukutai (1822-1867), and critiques historical perspectives that have narrowly identified him as merely a Kuupapa loyalist. This study argues that Kukutai’s ... -
Breaking the Barrier: Maori religious and spiritual entanglements at Aotea
(The University of Waikato, 2019)In 1889, Ngāti Rehua converted en masse to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS). This surprising conversion is remarkable for various reasons. Māori across the country had not only converted to Christianity ... -
Imaging and Imagining the Waikato: A Spatial History c.1800-c.1914
(The University of Waikato, 2018)This thesis reframes the history of the Waikato from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries through a spatial history approach using a visual archive. I argue that Pākehā images of the Waikato were both ... -
‘Novels are not Nonsense’: 1920s and 1930s New Zealand reflected through the Fiction of Jean Devanny and John A. Lee.
(University of Waikato, 2013)John Mulgan’s Man Alone (1939) has often been considered by historians and literary scholars as ‘the fullest prose rendering of what the New Zealand twenties and thirties felt like.’¹ This thesis argues that other contemporary ... -
Beneath the Golden Facade: A History of the Early Years on the Thames Goldfields
(University of Waikato, 2013)The story of Thames has been told and retold by many authors since the area was proclaimed a goldfield in 1867. These histories often glamourise the prosperity and wealth that gold brought to the town and its people. This ...
