The search interface is made of three sections: Search, Explore, and Results. These are described in detail below.
You may start searching either from the Search section or from the Explore section.
Search
This section shows your current search criteria and allows you to submit keywords to search in the bibliography.
Each new submission adds the entered keywords to the list of search criteria.
To start a new search instead of adding keywords to the current search, use the Reset search button, then enter your new keywords.
To replace an already submitted keyword, first remove it by unchecking its checkbox, then submit a new keyword.
You may control the extent of your search by selecting where to search. The options are:
Everywhere: Search your keywords in all bibliographic record fields and in the text content of the available documents.
In authors or contributors: Search your keywords in author or contributor names.
In titles: Search your keywords in titles.
In publication years: Search a specific publication year (you may use the OR operator with your keywords to find records having different publication years, e.g., 2020 OR 2021).
In all fields: Search your keywords in all bibliographic record fields.
In documents: Search your keywords in the text content of the available documents.
You may use boolean operators with your keywords. For instance:
AND: Finds entries that contain all specified terms. This is the default relation between terms when no operator is specified, e.g., a b is the same as a AND b.
OR: Finds entries that contain any of the specified terms, e.g., a OR b.
NOT: Excludes entries that contain the specified terms, e.g., NOT a.
Boolean operators must be entered in UPPERCASE.
You may use logical groupings (with parentheses) to eliminate ambiguities when using multiple boolean operators, e.g., (a OR b) AND c.
You may require exact sequences of words (with double quotes), e.g., "a b c". The default difference between word positions is 1, meaning that an entry will match if it contains the words next to each other, but a different maximum distance may be specified (with the tilde character), e.g., "web search"~2 allows up to 1 word between web and search, meaning it could match web site search as well as web search.
You may specify that some words are more important than others (with the caret), e.g., faceted^2 search browsing^0.5 specifies that faceted is twice as important as search when computing the relevance score of the results, while browsing is half as important. Such term boosting may be applied to a logical grouping, e.g., (a b)^3 c.
Keyword search is case-insentitive, accents are folded, and punctuation is ignored.
Stemming is performed on terms from most text fields, e.g., title, abstract, notes. Words are thus reduced to their root form, saving you from having to specify all variants of a word when searching, e.g., terms such as search, searches, and searching all produce the same results. Stemming is not applied to text in name fields, e.g., authors/contributors, publisher, publication.
Explore
This section allows you to explore categories associated with the references.
Categories can be used to filter your search. Check a category to add it to your search criteria and narrow your search. Your search results will then only show entries that are associated with that category.
Uncheck a category to remove it from your search criteria and broaden your search results.
The numbers shown next to the categories indicate how many entries are associated with each category in the current set of results. Those numbers will vary based on your search criteria to always describe the current set of results. Likewise, categories and whole facets will disappear when the result set has no entry associated to them.
An arrow icon () appearing next to a category indicates that subcategories are available. You may press it to expand a list of more specific categories. You may press it again later to collapse the list. Expanding or collapsing subcategories will not change your current search; this allows you to quickly explore a hierarchy of categories if desired.
Results
This section shows the search results. When no search criteria has been given, it shows the full content of the bibliography (up to 20 entries per page).
Each entry of the results list is a link to its full bibliographic record. From the bibliographic record view, you may continue exploring the search results by going to previous or following records in your search results, or you may return to the list of results.
Additional links, such as Read document or View on [website name], may appear under a result. These give you quick access to the resource. Those links will also be available in the full bibliographic record.
The Abstracts button lets you toggle the display of abstracts within the list of search results. Enabling abstracts, however, will have no effect on results for which no abstract is available.
Various options are provided to let you sort the search results. One of them is the Relevance option, which ranks the results from most relevant to least relevant. The score used for ranking takes into account word frequencies as well as the fields where they appear. For instance, if a search term occurs frequently in an entry or is one of very few terms used in that entry, that entry will probably rank higher than another where the search term occurs less frequently or where lots of other words also occur. Likewise, a search term will have more effect on the scores if it is rare in the whole bibliography than if it is very common. Also, if a search term appears in, e.g., the title of an entry, it will have more effect on the score of that entry than if it appeared in a less important field such as the abstract.
The Relevance sort is only available after keywords have been submitted using the Search section.
Categories selected in the Explore section have no effect on the relevance score. Their only effect is to filter the list of results.
The primary focus of this thesis is to explore the reasons for Ngati Porou participation in
the wars in New Zealand during the 1860s. Early writers sunnised that the alliances
between tribes like Ngati Porou, Te Arawa and the lower Whanganui iwi and the settler
governnent were due primarily to a sense of loyalty to the crown. Repetition by later
historians has reinforced this notion in New Zealand folklore and historiography. While
recent retrospective histories reveal a growing awareness that the motivation behind the
alliances was more complex, no analysis of tribal motives worthy of the confidence of
Maori has yet been recorded. This thesis initially sets out to detennine whether the
historical orthodoxy is founded at least for Ngati Porou. It presents evidence showing that
significant aspects of the Ngati Porou story have been misunderstood and misrepresented
by writers who have been unable to source or who have felt it unnecessary to properly
canvass Ngati Porou views and records. To date, tribal historians have on the whole
refrained from presenting a tribal perspective, not because the infonllation does not exist,
but from a desire to keep such knowledge in the tIibal arena where it is most relevant.
Continued irritation, however, caused by historical publications that fall short when trying
to comprehend the nature of Maori participation, has resulted in a freeing up of infonnation
by those who jealously guard their family 's manuscripts, and others who retain the oral
testimonies within the tribe, so that a re examination is made possible.
This thesis also generally seeks to link Ngati Porou 's involvement in war with leadership
pattems that emerged within the tribe during the period 1865 - 1872, though this dimension
of Ngati Porou history is not canvassed exhaustively here. In times of crisis existing
leadership patterns were challenged and as often as not new leaders emerged to lead the
tribe. Perhaps the finest military leader produced by Ngati Porou during the Hauhau
encounters was Major Rapata Wahawaha. His role in shaping Ngati Porou's modern
identity is a major theme running throughout this thesis. It is argued that his leadership and
philosophy characterised the contribution by Ngari Porou to theatres of war that followed
the 1860s. It is proposed that such a contribution was both strategic and calculated to
achieve gains for Ngati Porou. Moreover, the wider question is raised: why, since the
1860s, has Ngati Porou been so ready to join the battlefront and to stand alongside the
Crown? The thesis contends that far from being motivated solely by loyalty to the Crown,
Ngati Porou entered into an alliance with the Crown in order to protect and to advance tribal
interests.