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Contents: Introduction: Owning our history -- Remembering (and forgetting) the Waikato War -- Part 1. Before the war -- Early Waikato, 1800-1852 -- Settler government and Maori responses -- The Kingitanga -- War at Taranaki -- Isolating Waikato -- Governor Grey returns -- The Taranaki War resumes -- The decision to invade -- Part 2. Te Pakanga ki Waikato: war in Waikato -- The contending forces -- The invasion begins -- The Battle for Rangiriri -- Peace spurned (and Ngaruawahi occupied) -- The war spreads -- Rangiaowhia and Hairini -- Orakau and beyond -- Part 3. The aftermath -- An uneasy peace -- The impacts of war -- Confiscation proposals -- Legislating for confiscation -- Raupatu on the ground -- The military settlements -- The compensation court -- Lands for 'landless rebels' -- Part 4. The long search for justice -- Protests, petitions and appeals -- Legal challenges and deputations -- Political negotiations -- Towards a settlement -- Appendix: The Aotearoa flag Summary: A monumental new account of the defining conflict in New Zealand history. It was war in the Waikato in 1863-64 that shaped the nation in all kinds of ways: setting back Maori and Pakeha relations by several generations and allowing the government to begin to assert the kind of real control over the country that had eluded it since 1840. Spanning nearly two centuries from first contact through to settlement and apology, Vincent O'Malley focuses on the human impact of the war, its origins and aftermath. Based on many years of research and illustrated throughout, The Great War for New Zealand is a groundbreaking book written in the conviction that a nation needs to own its history. (Publisher)