The History of New Zealand through an anarchist lens. Specifically, that of Rick Giles. Please enjoy the ideas and let me know what you think as I start adding videos
Your 'colonial visionary' was a convicted pedophile: Wakefield, in 1826, abducted a 15-year-old schoolgirl, Ellen Turner, the daughter of William Turner, a rich Macclesfield manufacturer and county sheriff. Wakefield wanted the girl as his wife so that her father would be obliged to help him enter political life. The girl, whom Wakefield had never met, was first lured away from school by a false message saying her mother was dangerously ill. She was subsequently deceived by Wakefield into marrying him, with the story that her father had desperate money troubles and that the marriage was the only means of solving them. Edward Gibbon Wakefield and Ellen Turner were said to have married at Gretna Green, Scotland, on 8 March 1826. Having fled the country after the ceremony, Wakefield was apprehended in Calais by agents of the frantic parents. In August he, along with his fellow conspirators, his brother William, his step-mother, and a servant, Édouard Thévenot, were indicted at the Lancaster assizes. Their trial in March 1827 caused a public sensation. Only the brothers, however, were sentenced. On 14 May each received a three year prison term. A special act of Parliament annulled the marriage, which had not been consummated. teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1w4/wakefield-edward-gibbon
Interesting counter-theory of yours. But then how do you explain why the greatest sailors in the world gave all of that up to eat dogs, rats, and ferns?
@@anarchisthistoryofnewzeala541 because after several generations there was no need to go back to the islands. This landmass is bigger than all the islands in Polynesia put together - and was more protein rich and I dont understand why you think they only ate 'dogs, rats and fern' but it may highlight your own prejudice towards Maori. The addition of crops like kumara ensured quality carb supplementation and no need to cross the southern ocean which was a perilous trip even in today's circumstances.
@@tommcg7564 New Zealand right now doesn't "need" to have international trade. You seem to think there comes some point where trade should stop even though there were things only the Islands had or only NZ could offer. What nation every disbands its transport infrastructure to replace it with none? Besides, if the Islands didn't have something worth being able to travel for what about the rest of the world's oceans? For the World's Greatest Sailors it wasn't just giving up on coconuts but on the treasures of all the world.
@@anarchisthistoryofnewzeala541 have no idea why you cite the "need" for trade. It's irrelevant as times were different thing i.e. they didnt run on a currency system which today's capitalistic nations rely on. They had everything they needed
The missionaries had been with Maori along time before the treaty, the French were knocking at the door to annex New Zealand 🇳🇿 after Du Fresne and marines were eaten, and Hobson was clearly instructed that no one signed the treaty unless they fully understood. They knew they were ceding sovereignty, kohimarama confirmed it 26 years later.
I spent a year of my electrical apprenticeship wiring those god awful "Peerless Homes" in Kawerau. Something like 10 power points , 8 lights, a hot water heater and a stove. Different house plans, but same electrics
It's good stuff. The point about population weighted road fatalities peaking in 1973 is interesting. I love the Mad Max movies especially "The Road Warrior", but of course it is totally ridiculous. So, it's a post-apocalyptic wasteland and gasoline is in very short supply, so what vehicle shall I choose? A supercharged Ford Falcon V8 naturally (1973 model!). How about a bicycle? How about a god damned camel!? Why not enter into a series of trade negotiations with The Lord Humungous? Food and machinery for the precious gasoline? It's win - win! Of course that's not a movie, Mel Gibson stars as Reasonable Max in "The Camel Trader".
Well....in defense of that it's a bit like Maori Wars NZ being in an arms race. Potatoes and pork for guns or you die. Survival in the Mad Max apocalypse means the expending of octane. A culture that takes a longer view doesn't survive the live-fast-die-young subcultures. That aside, it's art. And it represents those 1970s petrol-head youth that Miller saw being mutilated. Conspicuous consumption and high risk taking was the identity they attached to then. And I guess some 10yo kids are having grandma read to them in bed tonight and other 10yo kids are participating in ram raids. So the theme is still relevant.
In the third movie gas was sparse so Max has a camel-drawn wagon. The second one takes place just after the collapse and the latest two are mainly in a society with a huge oil refinery.
It is a good piece, and I would like to know where the rest of it including the "occupy wall street" bit came from. There is a very long history of the masses rising up to kill the King, but then again there is a very long history of the King. Sigmund Freud in "Moses and Monotheism" believe he could show that after Moses had led the Hebrews out of Egypt they then rose up and killed him. Julius Caesar was murdered by the senators after he had defeated the Gauls, they feared he would make himself the King. So, you can kill the King but just wait, there will be another King.
New Zealanders have a long history of defending themselves and paying for it all. We just take out the middle-man of government who were paying with our money all along.
In the seventies my fiends bought a Hamilton jet boat it was called shear enjoyment powered by a ford 6 cylinder zephyr engine what a wonderful time we had with it to give a power boost I made a turbo charger kit for it the sound and speed was fantastic it only lasted one water skiing season which great fun But power caused the impeller bearings to rapidly wear out. We removed the turbo kit and rebuilt the jet unit all back to standard used for the following year then sold it brilliant memory’s
My Dad worked on the braemar water scheme and told me how the tarawera river they built the mill next to used to be the most pristine river in the world.....
Thanks for that. The animal drawn plow, first invented by the Mesopotamians in maybe 3000 BC first hits New Zealand soil in 1820. Learning the specific details of actual history is essential for seeing things as they actually were, not just dreaming about the way we think things probably were, or the way we would have liked them to have been. The fact that this technology was introduced by a Christain missionary society is not an incidental detail either. How does the modern identity politics radical integrate these facts with the notion that colonialism was motivated by racist white supremacy?
How else does an economy work. Built by the people ,jobs for the people,families owning most there own properties . Worked the bush. Pakeha and maori.the locals. I know these people and life was good. Do you like how things are now?
@@moronicdooshbaggery756 The economy does not work due to central planning but inspite of it. Those politicians couldn't run an ice water stand. What they can do is steal a 'cut' of the profits and use a portion of it on propaganda to tell us they are our leaders. What you say we could have again if we dialed back the level of government to what it was. Better yet- to zero!
@@moronicdooshbaggery756 The economy works off the back of Tax slaves we were born like Cattle for our tax and now that the corporations own everything we will be Culled like Cattle
People whats wrong with you have a look at mount Tauhara Taupo and you tell me way before the treaty heck even Ruakenana Tuhoe existed before this video
My old man knew Bill Hamilton we quite well when he was a contractor on the very first Pukaki dam, we used to stop in at Irishman’s for a cup of tea whenever we were heading north, my brother got a ride with him on the Ohau river when he was testing it as theOhau back before the hydro was quite a wild river, we used to tube it as kids.
Another great watch for early New Zealand History is "Poukawa Revisited" . Brilliant doco series that requires a bit of reading through the series but very rewarding if you do
Rubbish! This land was stolen from local Maori in thiose areas. That land had & still has value. Generations of Maori died protecting it before you arrived here....
Very nice to see the unpopular truth again however unfashionable it has become i can remember watching this show when it originally aired will share this one around better than having to constantly hear about the great navigators and voyagers ha ha ha shame they didn't add in how quickly they changed there traditional crop to a more heavy cropping sweat potatoe
@@iancassie9840 But imagine if you could prove the mainstream archeology wrong in their own language? Would stop everything beyound a doubt, get the truth out there.
