The Bridge and Barrier project explores the
transformation of Māori culture in central New
Zealand from first human arrival until the
beginning of organised European settlement.
Jim Williams’s PhD thesis (2004) includes an
in-depth look at traditional Ngāi Tahu
economics.
More suggestions and sources
Ballara, Angela. Iwi: the dynamics of Māori
tribal organisation from c. 1769 to c. 1945.
Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1998.
Belich James. Making peoples: a history of
the New Zealanders: from Polynesian settlement to
the end of the nineteenth century. Auckland:
Penguin, 2007.
Dalley, Bronwyn, and Gavin McLean, eds.
Frontier of dreams: the story of New
Zealand. Auckland: Hodder Moa Beckett,
2005.
Davidson, Janet. The prehistory of New
Zealand. Auckland: Longman Paul, 1987.
Firth, Raymond. Economics of the New
ZealandMaori. Wellington:
Government Printer, 1972 (originally published
1929).