Waitangi: a Living Treaty

by Matthew Wright

Paperback

Published January 1, 2019

About the author

Matthew Wright has qualifications in music, history and anthropology, among other fields, holds postgraduate degrees in history, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society at University College, London. He published his first short story in 1976 and since the early 1980s has worked extensively as a writer, professional historian, reviewer and journalist. His work includes more than 500 articles, academic papers and reviews, and over 50 books on topics from travel guides to biography, engineering, earthquakes, transport, military and social history. He has a particular interest in the sciences.

Reviews

[James · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fantastically well-written survey of the Treaty which engages particularly well with the reasons the British and Maori chiefs decided to sign it. Any scholar of News Zealand history would benefit from giving this a read.