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Colonisation and the involution of the Māori economy
This conference paper by Hazel Petrie (PDF, 96 KB) discusses the role that trade played in early Māori–Pākehā interaction.
More suggestions and sources
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Belich, James. Making peoples: a history of the New Zealanders: from Polynesian settlement to the end of the nineteenth century. Auckland: Penguin, 2001.
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Best, Elsdon. Māori agriculture: the cultivated food plants of the natives of New Zealand : with some account of native methods of agriculture, its ritual and origin myths. Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2005.
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Leach, Helen. 1,000 years of gardening in New Zealand. Wellington: Reed, 1984.
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Petrie, Hazel. Chiefs of industry: Māori tribal enterprise in early colonial New Zealand. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2006.