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What is The meeting place : Māori and Pākehā encounters, 1642-1840 about?

An account focusing on the encounters between the Maori and Pakeha—or European settlers—and the process of mutual discovery from 1642 to around 1840, this New Zealand history book argues that both groups inhabited a middle ground in which neither could dictate the political, economic, or cultural rules of engagement. By looking at economic, religious, political, and sexual encounters, it offers a strikingly different picture to traditional accounts of imperial Pakeha power over a static, resistant Maori society. With fresh insights, this book examines why mostly beneficial interactions between these two cultures began to merge and the reasons for their subsequent demise after 1840.

Author

Vincent O'Malley

Publisher

Auckland University Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781775581956

Subjects

History, Humanities