{"product_id":"trading-blows-what-caused-the-musket-wars","title":"Trading Blows","description":"- Impeccably researched and written by prolific historian - Analyses the forces that drove the major conflicts between Maori in the early nineteenth century - Insightful history demonstrates how the Musket Wars shaped modern New Zealand - \n\nDuring the first decades of the nineteenth century New Zealand was swept by inter- tribal warfare of unprecedented scale, in struggles that became known as the 'Musket Wars'. They lasted a generation and profoundly shaped modern New Zealand, with influence extending to the locations of main centres - Auckland, Wellington, New Plymouth, Nelson and Napier among others. Multiple race-relations issues today can be traced to the same events.\n\nAnd yet these dramatic years have largely gone under the historical radar. Even the colonial name 'Musket Wars' has survived, although muskets did not feature in quantity until the wars were well under way.\n\nIn this significant work, historian Matthew Wright goes beyond the battles to look at the causes of this dramatic and exciting period, a time when Britain's full range of industrial products crashed into New Zealand and drove a Maori economic revolution.\n\nHe explores why one consequence of that revolution was warfare, how the new technologies altered Maori life and why the cycle of utu ended, in clear prose supported by helpful maps.","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Trading Blows: What Caused the Musket Wars","offer_id":46569992454341,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-991353-02-3.jpg?v=1784597279","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/trading-blows-what-caused-the-musket-wars","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}