Lachy

＂While the Måaori Battalion fought overseas, the Måaori War Effort Organisation and its tribal committees engaged Måaori men and women throughout Aotearoa in the home guard, the women’s auxiliary forces, and national agricultural and industrial production. Måaori mobilisation was an exercise of rangatiratanga and it changed how Måaori engaged with the state. And, as Måaori men and women took up new roles, the war was to become a watershed event for Måaori society that set the stage for post-war urbanisation＂--Publisher’s website.

Angela Wanhalla (Ngai Tahu, Ngai Te Ruahikihiki, Pakeha) is a professor in the History Programme, Otakou Whakaihu Waka. Her primary research area is Maori women’s history. Her most recent book is Of Love and War: Pacific Brides of World War II (University of Nebraska Press, 2023). Lachy Paterson is emeritus professor at Te Tumu, Otakou Whakaihu Waka, where he taught te reo Maori and Maori history. He researches Maori history, especially relating to newspapers and other texts in Maori, and the relationship between Maori and the government in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century.