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 indicates how the wars were thought about half a century ago
- New Zealand Wars – a site run by Danny Keenan, formerly Associate Professor of Māori Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
- Digitised texts relating to the New Zealand Wars – on the NZ Electronic Text Centre website (includes the James Cowan volumes mentioned below)
- 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)
Books
- James Belich, The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian interpretation of racial conflict, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1986
- 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, 2021
- Nigel Prickett, Landscapes of conflict: a field guide to the New Zealand Wars, Random House, Auckland, 2002
- Chris Pugsley, ‘Walking the Waikato Wars: Gate Pa’, New Zealand Defence Quarterly, no. 19 (Summer 1997), pp. 30–6
- Chris Pugsley, ‘Walking the Waikato Wars: Te Ranga’, New Zealand Defence Quarterly, no. 20 (Autumn 1998), pp. 28–33
- Tim Ryan and Bill Parham, The colonial New Zealand wars, Grantham House, Wellington, 2002