Wars without end

From the earliest days of the European settlement of New Zealand, argues Danny Keenan, Maori struggled to hold on to their land. When bloody open warfare between Maori tribes and Imperial forces broke out in the 1840s and then again in the 1860s, the struggle for land was at the heart of the conflict. Thus the name Land Wars. This new book on the Land Wars approaches the subject from the point of view of the Maori protagonists. Written by a senior Maori historian, Wars Without End describes Maori reasons for going to war and places the fighting in the context of the struggle for land. The…