Parihaka has become a byword for Maori refusal to yield land, culture and dignity to New Zealand's colonial government. Well after the end of the New Zealand Wars, the people of this small settlement at the foot of Mt Taranaki held out against the encroachments of Pakeha settlers in a struggle that swapped the weapons of war for the weapons of peace. Taking as their symbol the white feather, the chiefs Te Whiti and Tohu led Parihaka in one of the world's first-recorded campaigns of passive resistance. Maori ploughmen wrote ...
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Parihaka has become a byword for Maori refusal to yield land, culture and dignity to New Zealand's colonial government. Well after the end of the New Zealand Wars, the people of this small settlement at the foot of Mt Taranaki held out against the encroachments of Pakeha settlers in a struggle that swapped the weapons of war for the weapons of peace. Taking as their symbol the white feather, the chiefs Te Whiti and Tohu led Parihaka in one of the world's first-recorded campaigns of passive resistance. Maori ploughmen wrote its message across the settlers' pastures, and Maori fencers underlined the point by throwing barriers across the queen's highways. Withstanding repeated military action, the spirit of resistance born at Parihaka kept alive the flame of that supposedly 'dying race', the Maori. Ask That Mountain draws on official papers, settler manuscripts and oral history to give the first complete account of what took place at Parihaka. Now in its ninth edition, this seminal work was in 1995 named by the Sunday Star-Times as one of the ten most important books published in New Zealand.
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Add this copy of Ask That Mountain: the Story of Parihaka to cart. $36.25, very good condition, Sold by Jenson Books Inc rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Logan, UT, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Raupo Publishing (NZ) Ltd.
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Very good. A well-cared-for item that has seen limited use but remains in great condition. The item is complete, unmarked, and undamaged, but may show some limited signs of wear. Item works perfectly. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine is undamaged.
Add this copy of Ask That Mountain: the Story of Parihaka to cart. $41.50, very good condition, Sold by In Other Words Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Plymouth, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1975 by Heinemann/Southern Cross.
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Very Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. pp. 216. Book internally in clean and unmarked condition, with some light foxing around edges. Dark blue boards good. Dust jacket slightly faced, spine has a few marks on it, otherwise good. Black and white photos and drawings throughout. A fascinating history of an episode in the Maori resistance to the European colonisation of New Zealand. Two chiefs at Parihaka, at the foot of the sacred Taranake Mountain, with the white feather as their emblem, began preaching the then strange and unknown doctrine of passive resistance. It took 2000 soldiers to march on the village to destroy it, expel its inhabitants and exile its leaders-but the story has lived on in the oral testimony of Maori elders, songs and chants and a wealth of manuscripts not previously entrusted to a pakeha.
Add this copy of Ask That Mountain: the Story of Parihaka to cart. $46.86, good condition, Sold by Small World Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rochester, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Reed / Southern Cross.
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Good. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Ex-Library, Sticker On Top Left Corner Of Front Cover, Sticker On Bottom Of Spine, Bookplate On Inside Front Cover, Mild Shelfwear And Edgewear, Otherwise An Unmarked, Clean, And Solid Copy.
Add this copy of Ask That Mountain: the Story of Parihaka to cart. $129.00, very good condition, Sold by The Unskoolbookshop rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Brattleboro, VT, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by Raupo Publishing (NZ) Ltd.
