Out of print – digital edition available through ebook retailers and our BWB Collections platform.
A detailed examination of the circumstances leading to British intervention and hence to the Treaty of Waitangi, Fatal Necessity was first published in 1977.
Now re-issued as an e-book, this key text in Treaty studies emphasises that the dual aim of British policy was to protect both settlers and Māori; the reality, however, proved very different.
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Preface
Introduction
Part I - The Making of a British Colony 1830-1840
1 The New Zealand Frontier
2 The British Response to the Frontier
3 Pressures for Change
4 Colonial Office Policy-Making
5 The Annexation of New Zealand
Part II - The Meaning of the Treaty of Waitangi 1840-1847
6 Land and Colonization
7 Law and Custom
8 The Obligations of Good Faith