Te puea michael king

When this book first appeared in it was hailed as the best book written by or about a New Zealander.

Te Puea Herangi () secured the survival of the Maori King movement - the nearest thing in New Zealand to nationalist organization.

Michael King was one of New Zealand's leading historians and biographers.

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Te Puea: a biography

February 1,

Michael King in an interview , he stated this was the first real book he wrote which he never intended to write but when researching there was nothing like it and persuaded by academic mentors he carried on, written 16 years after Te Puea passing in so its from others living, interviews and accounts of people still living who knew her, and partly from the many letters of correspondence with government officials she only spoke and all correspondence was in Maori. Early s Tainui were in a world of disaster landless penniless and nomads in what was once their own land, Through unprovoked settler war but they never lost heart clawed their way back through enterprise and pluck, through the sheer will of Te Puea and others, whose vision to many around her was sometimes very obscure even to herself I imagine, but anyway slippery and wriggling like a half caught eel she made gains and losses but in backing her decisions. Now in King movement is what it is

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Te Puea

A Life

by Michael King

Te Puea Herangi, whom Professor John Pocock identified as 'possibly the most influential woman in our political history', wanted an honest biography of her turbulent life. 'I want the truth told and ingenting but the truth,' she told a Pakeha reporter. Michael King has written such a book. He did so with the full support of bladte Puea's tribe, Tainui, and of her surviving family and proteges.
When this book first appeared in it was hailed as the best book written by or about a New Zealander. The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature said it was so far an advance on anything published previously that it was without precedent. It remains so.

Publisher

Penguin Group New Zealand, Limited

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Te Puea: A Life

Te Puea Herangi, whom Professor John Pocock identified as 'possibly the most influential women in our political history', wanted an honest biography of her turbulent life. 'I want the truth told and nothing but the truth', she told a Pakeha journalist. Michael Kind has written such a book. He did so with the full support of Te Puea's tribe, Tainui, and of her surviving family and proteges. Table of contents: * Early years * Return to the river * Consolidation * Conscription and Pai Marire * Turangawaewae: Preparations * Turangawaewae: The long march * An end to isolation * Mahinarangi: A coming together * Back to the land * Tohunga and parsons * A river culture * War and politics * Raupatu and other causes * Return of Ru and conflicts * Churches, schools and alcohol * Last years * Towards Te Rerenga Wairua * Epilogue: Resolution of Raupatu.