CROWN-RANGATIRATANGA RELATIONS IN THE 20TH CENTURY

The publication of the illustrated book, launched exactly a month ago, has prompted the timing of this seminar. In Dick Scott’s recent autobiography he says, with reference to another of his books on a major incident during New Zealand’s rule of Niue after the war: ‘This book did not come from nowhere.’ He was referring to his political and intellectual involvement in the troubled time of the early 1950s. For Scott, ‘history has served as a vehicle for delivering political, economic and moral judgement’, with a view to improving the lot of the dispossessed.