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James Belich is a Professor of History at the University of Auckland, and author of a two-volume history of New Zealand – Making Peoples (1996) and Paradise Reforged (2001). His first major publication, The New Zealand Wars, won the Trevor Reece Memorial Prize in 1988. I Shall Not Die was first published in 1989, and won the 1990 Adam Award for the ‘most significant contribution to [New Zealand] literature in the preceding two years’. His research interests include indigenous responses to European expansion, patterns of European settlement, NZ ethnic, cultural and social history.
Books
Paradise Reforged: A History of the New Zealanders from the 1880s to the Year 2000
(Allen Lane Penguin, 2001)
 
Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders to 1900
(Allen Lane Penguin, 1996)
 
I Shall Not Die (OP): Titokowaru’s War, New Zealand 1868–1869
(Bridget Williams Books, 1989)
 
The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict
(Penguin, 1988)