The Waitangi Tribunal and New Zealand HistoryOxford University Press, 2004 - 222 pages Not intended as an apology for, or a justification of, the Waitangi Tribunal and the Treaty claims process, but as a scholarly intervention into an ongoing debate about the shape of history-writing in early twenty-first century New Zealand. |
Contents
Opening Pandoras Boxthe Process and the Players | 31 |
Truth Time and ObjectivityTensions Between Law | 63 |
Fatal Impact and the Paradox of Maori Agency | 109 |
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