Table of Contents

Introduction: Crossing Races
1: Systematic Colonisation and Racial Amalgamation
2: Intimate Encounters in New Zealand Before 1840
3: Racial Amalgamation in New Zealand 1840-1850s
4: Crossing Races, Encountering Places
5: The Tender Way in Race War
Conclusion: Dwelling in Unity
Bibliography

About the Author

Damon Salesa is an Associate Professor of History, American Culture, and Asian/Pacific Islander Studies at the University of Michigan. A graduate of the University of Auckland and Oxford University, he is an historian of the British and American empires, and of the Pacific Islands. He is the author of a number of articles on these topics, is one of the contributors to The New Oxford History of New Zealand, has authored a short textbook series on the
history of Polynesia, and is one of the editors of the forthcoming Tangata o Moana Nui (Te Papa Tongarewa/Museum of New Zealand Press). Educated in New Zealand, he was the first Samoan Rhodes Scholar. He is also a
holder of the title Toeolesulusulu from the village of Satapuala, Samoa.

Reviews

This is a complex and dense book ... Salesa's study breaks new ground in understanding the importance of interracial intimacy in forging new societies.
*Sarah Carter, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History*

engage[s] with the big ideas that underlay racial thinking and discourses in the British Empire, and demonstrate how these informed British colonisation in New Zealand.
*Lachy Paterson, British Scholar*