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Samuel Carpenter is an historian of New Zealand/Aotearoa and the British empire who is particularly concerned with the role of ideas in history (intellectual history), the evolution of political institutions, and the entanglements of Christianity with indigenous cultures and polities. This is his personal blog page which highlights ongoing research and provides links to publications.
Latest posts…
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Reviewing the Treaty principles process 2025
I gave this interview with Andrew Urquhart after the end of the treaty principles bill in 2025. Some summation and reflection on the significance and implications of this national conversation… Read more ⇢
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S Carpenter, PhD Thesis, 2020: Reshaping political communities in Aotearoa New Zealand
Although my PhD thesis has been available for several years through the Massey University library webpage, I have not made it directly available myself. Since I have, however, now used… Read more ⇢
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Conference paper: Henry Williams’ intellectual formation in English Dissent
… and his views on the Waitara controversy, c. 1860. The slides and recording below represent a conference paper given at the New Zealand Historical Association Conference last week, at… Read more ⇢
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Published article on reconciling the Māori and English language texts of the Treaty-te Tiriti
Citation: Samuel D. Carpenter, “Reconciling the Treaty/te Tiriti Through the Discourse of Civil Government/Kāwanatanga,” Journal of New Zealand Studies 39 (2025): 44-64, https://doi.org/10.26686/jnzs.iNS39.9892. Link also here: Reconciling the Treaty/te Tiriti… Read more ⇢
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Marianne Williams and the Missionary Impulse
In this postcolonial age, many things are said and written concerning missionaries to foreign/ indigenous lands. I have just been reading a source which reveals that in its purest, Christian… Read more ⇢
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Talk at National Library on Henry Williams + Te Tiriti
I was invited by the National Library, “E Oho! Waitangi!” series, to share my research and insights into Henry Williams’ translation of the Treaty of Waitangi. I append below my… Read more ⇢
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Submission on Treaty Principles Bill – January 2025
Below is the Laidlaw College submission on the Bill, prepared by myself, Bradford Haami and Roshan Allpress. (Can be downloaded below.) Read more ⇢
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Treaty Principles Bill: The principles need to remain tied to the historical Treaty
Published in the New Zealand Herald last week: online 19 November 2024, print 20 November 2024 Treaty Principles Bill: The principles need to remain tied to the historical Treaty –… Read more ⇢
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Translating the Scriptures into te reo Māori in Aotearoa-New Zealand in the 1830s
RECENTLY PUBLISHED: Samuel D. Carpenter, “A Historical–Contextual Analysis of the Use of “Tapu”, “Utu” and “Muru” in the Māori New Testament and Book of Common Prayer,” Religions 15, no. 9,… Read more ⇢
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Treaty Principles – A Guide
Video 1 in a mini-series explaining Treaty Principles, what they are and why they were developed. For other videos in this series, go to my YouTube page, https://youtube.com/HistoryisNow READ: Prof.… Read more ⇢
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Commentary on Waitangi Tribunal urgent report on Treaty Principles Bill
I gave an interview on Newstalk ZB on Friday 16 August 2024 about the Waitangi Tribunal’s report, released at midday, on the proposed Coalition Govt’s Treaty Principles Bill. The report… Read more ⇢
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The Church Missionary Society settlement at Paihia, 1820s-40s
Recently I’ve been seeking to understand the core mission ideas, practices and day-to-day realities of the Paihia mission – the leading mission station of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in… Read more ⇢
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