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400 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps Previous ed.: Reed, 2001 Contents: Protagonists -- 1. 1806-17 : the first sparks -- 2. 1818 : Ngapuhi power unleashed: Hongi Hika and Te Morenga -- 3. 1819 : the flames of war move south -- 4. 1820 : The conflagration spreads -- 5. 1821 : a year of reckoning -- 6. 1822 : devastation continues -- 7. 1823 : terrible revenge and sublime salvation -- 8. 1824 : setting the scene in the south -- 9. 1825 : the ravages of ultimate power -- 10. 1826 : the year of change : the swing of the Ngapuhi pendulum -- 11. 1827 : the spread of musket power -- 12. 1828 : Ngati Maru strike out -- 13. 1829 : focus on Te Waipounamu -- 14. 1830 : nadir for Ngati Maru -- 15. 1831-32 : two famous sieges : Kaiapoui and Pukerangiora -- 16. 1832 : a year of turmoil -- 17. 1833 : a calming of the storm -- 18. 1834 : the pendulum in balance -- 19. 1835 : the musket moves offshore -- 20. 1836 : the outbreak of the last major war -- 21. 1837 : a year of positioning -- 22. 1838 : a flickering of the flames -- 23. 1839 : warfare flares again -- 24. 1840 : a momentous year -- 25. 1841-45 : war flames extinguished -- Appendix A. Firearms of the Musket Wars -- Appendix B. Logistics and tactics Summary: This history provides the first comprehensive account of the wars that ravaged the country in the early 1800s, when iwi with newly acquired muskets unleashed terrible utu (revenge) on foes, helped by other introductions like potatoes that fuelled long-range taua (war parties). This volume reproduces the revised 2001 edition. (Publisher)