a blog page about all manner of history stuff on Aotearoa NZ
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 on te Tiriti o Waitangi.
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 the University of Auckland. (The NZHA conference is the main conference of Aotearoa-NZ historians held biennially.) Abstract of paper: The Church Missionary Society (CMS) missionary…
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 Through the Discourse of Civil Government/Kāwanatanga | The Journal of New Zealand Studies Abstract:This essay charts a middle course between the old, basically Pākehā orthodoxy…
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