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	James Belich (historian) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Professor James Belich ONZM is a New Zealand historian known for his work on the New Zealand Wars.
		Of Yugoslav descent, he was born in 1956 in Wellington, the son of Jim Belich, who later became the Labour Mayor of Wellington.
		Belich was made and Officer of New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours List for service to historic research.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Belich_(historian) (226 words)

	A History of the New Zealanders (James Belich) - review
		James Belich's two volume History of the New Zealanders is insightful, involving, and inspired.
		One example is the use of colours to label different stereotypes of Maori — red for warlike, green for environmentally sensitive, white for almost-European (even literally Aryan, in one of the more bizarre inventions of racial science), grey for "a dying race", fl for unsalvageably bestial, brown for loyal subordinates, and so forth.
		Belich is often very funny, with a fondness for puns and a straightforward and sometimes unsubtle humour.
	dannyreviews.com /h/New_Zealanders.html (672 words)

	EJANZH: Articles: Veracini: Revising Revisionist History
		Whereas Belich had insisted on its efficiency and a flattering assessment of British firepower had been a constituent element of his account of the ‘Maori achievement’, Gates insists on how defective this weapon was in the 1860s in the New Zealand theatre of operation, especially when compared to later improvements.
		Belich’s detection of a widespread ideological failure to recognise Maori potential, and that this should be related more to the general interpretation of conflict in colonialist milieus than to individual inability, remains convincing despite Gates’ new evidence.
		After all, Belich’s notion that it was the military effort of the federated Maori tribes against the Anglo-settler endeavors that had created the conditions for the establishment of a tradition of racial partnership has underpinned the transformation of tribe-Crown relationship in the last two decades.
	www.jcu.edu.au /aff/history/articles/veracini.html (3562 words)

	Paradise Reforged: A History of the New Zealanders From the 1880s to the Year 2000 Pacific Affairs - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Belich's core contention-that between the 1880s and 1970s New Zealand was a virtual Scotland-may be captured in the words of the late Ngaio Marsh in 1964: "New Zealanders are over 90 per cent of British descent.
		Belich's recit is that with the advent (in 1881) of refrigerated shipping, New Zealand surrendered a growing Australasian identity and market-relations, and re-committed itself to becoming a 'Little England' and Britain's outlying dairy farm, inter-relating via a protein bridge and delaying its functional independence until that forced 'decolonization' of 1973.
		Belich's account of the Kiwi 'Austral-Britishers,' as well as the book's title, shockingly begs the important question as to what extent the Pakeha (= dominant Euro-British) hegemony was a 'paradise' of any sort for the indigenous Maori-let alone for the struggling Pakeha ('white drudges' in the words of another historian).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3680/is_200304/ai_n9206083 (541 words)

	The New Zealand Wars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Historians like John Pocock have argued that the term is divisive - it sets up a 'them and us' situation.
		Belich used the term in the title of his important 1985 book of course; and he justified its use towards the end of that significant and challenging narrative.
		The name was also used earlier by James Cowan, when he published his two volume narrative of war on the edges of empire in the early 1920s.
	www.newzealandwars.co.nz /index.htm (1959 words)

	BELICH, James
		Belich’s writing is confident in its broad sweep and vigorous in its detail.
		BELICH, James (1956–), historian, is recognised as a writer of merit as well as for significantly reinterpreting nineteenth-century New Zealand history, especially Maori/Pakeha relations.
		Belich’s writing is confident in its broad sweep and vigorous in its detail, whether he writes about Maori techniques of trench warfare or the courting rituals of the society elite of Tauranga in the late nineteenth century.
	www.bookcouncil.org.nz /writers/belichjames.html (350 words)

	James Did You Mean james? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		James I of England (James VI of Scotland) (1566?1625) was king of England, Scotland and Ireland, and was the first Sovereign to reign in the three realms simultaneously
		James I of Aragon (1208?1276), surnamed the Conqueror, was the king of Aragon, count of Barcelona and Lord of Montpellier from 1213 to 1276
		James, mayor of Newport News, Virginia from 1936 to 1940.
	www.did-you-mean.com /James.html (975 words)

	The Treaty of Waitangi - Key People - Māori Leaders 1840-1900 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		James Carroll was born at Wairoa, in northern Hawke's Bay, in 1857.
		One of her daughters, Heni Materoa, married James Carroll, the long-standing Liberal Member of Parliament for Eastern Māori and Minister of Māori Affairs between 1899 and 1912.
		One historian has noted that the judge’s decision was "powerfully assisted" by Te Keepa's threats of further action.
	www.treatyofwaitangi.govt.nz /people/maorileaders1840.php (11931 words)

	PSSM Conference
		It is rare for an historian like myself to have an audience like this one and I want to cover quite a lot of ground.
		I will sketch my understanding of the history of modern New Zealand since 1840 and will try to slant this summary towards what I assume to be your interests, namely, the State and that nether end of history colloquially known as the present.
		The problem that a historian faces, of course, is that commentators at both extremes tend to suggest that either all growth was reasonable or all growth was unreasonable.
	pssm.ssc.govt.nz /previous/1999/papers/jbelich.asp (3047 words)

	Amazon.com: "James Belich": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The historian James Belich observes that this was convenient because it extended New Zealand's European history back from the nineteenth century to the seventeenth.
		Partly as a result, there occurred what historians Gordon Parsonson and James Belich have labeled an agricul- tural revolution, enabling iwi to move to new locations nearer whaling stations, especially in the colder...
		James Belich's Making Peoples is subtitled a 'history of the New Zealanders', yet neither 'missionaries' nor 'Christianity' make the index.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/James-Belich (546 words)

	Amazon.com: Profile For Bevan Lewis: Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The concluding volume of distinguished New Zealand historian James Belich's general history of New Zealand is an engaging, tightly bound look at the 20th century.
		Belich writes with an engaging style, mixing humour and deft usage of example with the broad brushstroke of well formed arguments.
		Belich quotes Jame Mander; [New Zealand was] "afflicted with the 'awful disease' of puritanism and conformism - 'barren wastes of Victorian philistinasm', 'brain-numbing, stimulus-stifling, soul-searing silence'".
	www.amazon.com /gp/cdp/member-reviews/A3OZOMDHZUW3JK (1640 words)

	The Harriet Affair - A Frontier of Chaos? - NZHistory.net.nz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The official British Resident, James Busby, based in the Bay of Islands, cited the Harriet affair as further evidence of 'frontier chaos'.
		Historian James Belich believes that incidents like the Harriet affair (or indeed the earlier but equally notorious Boyd 'Massacre' of 1809) attracted great attention because they were the exception and not the rule.
		Belich contends that although attacks on property were more common, contributing to a sense of lawlessness, overall the level of Maori-European violence was dwarfed by the sum total of contact.
	www.nzhistory.net.nz /culture/frontierofchaos-harriet (1573 words)

	Rankin File - Southland Inspires
		Last week's Southland Times promotion of Southland, published as a supplement in the NZ Herald on 31 October, is a timely reminder to the rest of New Zealand that we all participate in provincial economies, and that a provincial economy can be vibrant and entrepreneurial rather than subservient.
		Historian James Belich has given us another reminder about what it means to be a province.
		In his just released Paradise Reforged (reviewed in the Herald on 3 November), he shows that, for nearly 100 years (1890s to early 1970s) New Zealand was an economic province, not of Britain, but of the (British) Empire.
	pl.net /~keithr/rfile01B06SouthlandInspires.html (853 words)

	E LAW \| Myths, National Origins, Common Law and the Waitangi Tribunal - Text
		One of Charles' sons was restored to the throne (Charles II), another lost it again (James II) and, finally, in 1688 a Dutch-led invasion force ensured that the Prince and Princess of Orange in the Netherlands became the monarchs of England and Scotland.
		The historian is to myth what the ferret is to the rabbit.
		Some historians may want still to insist that the Treaty was a document signed by tribal peoples in a nineteenth century context with a consul of the British Crown, and that it has nothing useful to say about the multicultural identities of twenty-first century New Zealanders.
	www.murdoch.edu.au /elaw/issues/v11n4/williams114_text.html (12977 words)

	James Belich (historian) - One Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		OneLang.com lets you search a huge database of reference and product information to find relevant, specific information on almost any topic.
		James Belich is a New Zealand historian known for his work on the Maori Wars.
		This article is a substub, the first step on the way to becoming a full article.
	www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/James_Belich_(historian) (82 words)

	Discovery - New Zealand in History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Historians today question the exactitude not only of the above time period, but also of The Great Fleet theory itself.
		At approximately the same time as the arrival of the first Polynesians, the Moriori people, ancestors of the Māori, (sometimes known as "Tchakat Moriori") were thought to be settling in Rekohu off the coast of New Zealand, although it appears that this also is the subject of much debate by historians.
		According to James Belich in his book "Making Peoples" (Penguin Press) it is possible that Hawaiiki may have been the Bismarck Islands.
	history-nz.org /discovery.html (1130 words)

	University honours Sir Keith Sinclair - The University of Auckland
		Vice-Chancellor of The University of Auckland, Dr John Hood, said that the ten years since Sir Keith’s death have not diminished the great esteem in which his historical work, in particular, continues to be held.
		In announcing that Professor James Belich would be the first holder of the Keith Sinclair Chair in History, Dr Hood said that Professor Belich is a worthy recipient of this honour.
		James Belich joined The University of Auckland staff as a professor of history in 1997.
	www.auckland.ac.nz /uoa/about/news/articles/2003/03/0005.cfm (389 words)

	UH Press: Books and Journals published by the University of Hawaii Press
		This immensely readable book, full of drama and humor as well as scholarship, is a watershed in the writing of New Zealand history.
		According to James Belich, however, it is just these characteristics that make New Zealand "a historian's paradise: a laboratory whose isolation, size, and recency is an advantage, in which the grand themes of world history are often played out more rapidly, more separately, and therefore more discernably, than elsewhere."
		James Belich is professor of history at the University of Auckland.
	www.uhpress.hawaii.edu /cart/shopcore/?db_name=uhpress&page=shop/flypage&product_id=2346 (369 words)

	Puke Ariki - Resources - TreasureLink - 9 February 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Historian James Belich thinks (d) is the most likely answer.
		James Belich tells readers why in his book The New Zealand Wars.
		James Belich believes that without them the colonial troops would have been far less successful.
	www.pukeariki.com /en/resources/treasurelink/tl090205.asp (2635 words)

	Battle of Gate Pa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Belich observes that in proportion to the size of the pa and its garrison, the artillery bombardment was comparable to those in the First World War.
		Most contemporary historians take the view that the retreating Maori driven back by the 68th Regiment induced the panic.
		The historian James Belich makes the argument that the Maori deliberately created a trap for the British.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~Sxmitch/Battle.html (3520 words)

	G21 ASIA - "Whither the Maori?"
		Not in the strictest sense of the word, but there was theft of land on a large scale and systematic duping of the locals which lead to wars, and therefore casualties, between Maori and colonizers in the 1860s, at one time called "The Maori wars," now called "The New Zealand Wars."
		Revisionist historian James Belich's book and television programme of that title sought to redress the historical balance through getting the semantics correct.
		So, even if this series of conflicts, these wars, did not lead to genocide, could not be described as a holocaust, they involved a shameful injustice whose effects, when combined with all those other injustices perpetrated in the cause of European colonization of New Zealand, remain to sour the social and political atmosphere in 2000.
	www.g21.net /asia27.htm (1240 words)

	New Zealander's Stole their Land!! - TheologyWeb Campus
		Some historians like John Pocock have argued that Maori society was too fragmented and did not represent a 'single polity'.
		Just on the question of 'civil wars', some historians have recently suggested that the New Zealand Wars were in fact civil wars fought between Maori, with settlers and the Crown almost relegated to the role of mere bystanders.
		And I was complimenting the Maori battle tactics, but it was only comparatively recently that they were recognized, by James Belich in particular.
	www.theologyweb.com /campus/showthread.php?t=1691 (1860 words)

	Waitangi Tribunal - About the Reports
		In our view the different stances adopted by the Crown and the claimants over the introduction of British law and law enforcement in the Mohaka district and over the continuation of Ngati Pahauwera's authority need to be considered in their historical framework.
		Before the East Coast wars, Mohaka was what the historian James Belich has described as a "Maori zone" and Ngati Pahauwera were predominantly independent.
		A government official or magistrate visiting Mohaka was, to use Dr Belich's words, "an invited guest whose attributes supplemented, but did not replace, those of its host".
	www.waitangi-tribunal.govt.nz /reports/viewchapter.asp?reportID=13A13A04-22F8-4028-AAA8-0911613F9BCB&chapter=37 (1993 words)

	The Christian Missionaries - A Frontier of Chaos? - NZHistory.net.nz
		Historian James Belich described the Christian missionaries as the 'agents of virtue in a world of vice', a variation on Busby's notion of frontier chaos.
		This first school closed at the end of 1818 due to a lack of supplies and trade, but another opened in 1823 under the auspices of James Kemp and George Clark.
		The temperamental and driven Kendall was not popular with his fellow missionaries and he clashed with the more pragmatic and secular approach of Hall and King.
	www.nzhistory.net.nz /culture/frontierofchaos-missionaries (2038 words)

	Ngā whakakitenga: Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		James Allan Thomson, a geology graduate from Otago University, was New Zealand's first Rhodes Scholar.
		The scholarship enabled him to do post graduate study at Oxford University, where he also obtained a lectureship, before returning to New Zealand in 1914 to become Director of the Dominion Museum.
		The nickname ‘Great Shee’ is explained by a combination of the word variant and the sheer size of the work, emphasised in this 1613 copy by the binding of solid oak boards covered with decorated calf and metal ‘furniture’.
	www.natlib.govt.nz /mi/whatsnew/1exhibitions.html (1011 words)

	WAIS - World Affairs Report - Maori Cannibalism
		There might possibly be a hot pool in Rotorua called "the brainpot", but it seems a bit funny that a New Zealander like me who is a New Zealand historian has never heard of it.
		My wife is an historian of nineteenth century New Zealand and joint author of The Story of New Zealand.
		The first volume of James Belich's Making Peoples: A History of New Zealanders, Allen Lane and Penguin, appeared in 1996.
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/NewZealand/newzealand_maorican1.html (941 words)

	Videorecordings
		Guided by experts, art historians, and Florentine citizens, Bill Moyers tours Florence's rich Renaissance legacy, exploring the roots of the common artistic, architectural, and human heritage of modern Western civilization.
		Archeologists, historians, and video artists, using computer graphics, archival film and classic art, reconstruct Imperial Rome, Pompeii, Ancient Greece, and the cities of the Pharaohs.
		Historian James Belich uncovers the conflicts between Māori and Pakeha in the nineteenth century, when a small tribal group of people clashed with the world's largest empire.
	www.library.auckland.ac.nz /subjects/conted/multimedia/videos.htm (4201 words)

	Puke Ariki - Resources - TreasureLink - 9 March 2005
		The historian James Belich says he narrowly escaped being one of the few generals to lose an army without going into battle.
		Some historians believe the British were more interested in making Māori follow British laws and customs than in taking their land.
		That's why the James Belich book is called, The New Zealand Wars and not the Land Wars.
	www.pukeariki.com /en/resources/treasurelink/tl090305.asp (1944 words)

	Austen Family History - Free
		And, to James Cowan who by fortuitous timing interviewed W. Free, then in the last months of his life, at about his experiences in the NZ Wars.
		James Cowen, the historian, who is gathering materials for the national history of New Zealand's pioneering and Maori Wars era, now being prepared under the direction of the Hon.
		The interview with James Cowan around late 1918 and early January 1919, which appears in Volume One of his influential book, The New Zealand Wars has been widely re-printed in many New Zealand histories (a partial list of appearances is below).
	www.austenfamily.org /free_main.html (5721 words)

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