The development of New Zealand as a nation can be tracked through the documents that set each stage and change on its path. From the earliest markers of territory, through the documentation of the Treaty of Waitangi, constitutional documents and declaration of war to the nuclear free treaty. The history of New Zealand is tracked through fifty key documents.
About the Author
Paul Moon is a New Zealand historian and a professor at the Auckland University
of Technology. He is a writer of New Zealand history and biography, specialising
in Māori history, the Treaty of Waitangi and the early period of Crown rule. He
has many books to his credit and is a frequent media commentator on radio and
television.