Fatal Necessity; Contents; Preface; Introduction; The Making of a British Colony 1830-1840; The New Zealand Frontier; The British Response to the Frontier; Pressures for Change; Colonial Office Policy-Making; The Annexation of New Zealand; The Meaning of the Treaty of Waitangi 1840-1847; Land and Colonization; Law and Custom; The Obligations of Good Faith; Appendixes; 1(a); 1(b); 2; 3(a); 3(b); 4; 5; References; Chapter 1 notes; Chapter 2 notes; Chapter 3 notes; Chapter 4 notes; Chapter 5 notes; Chapter 6 notes; Chapter 7 notes; Chapter 8 notes; Appendix 1(a) notes; Appendix 1(b) notes
Fatal Necessity, now re-issued as an e-book, is a detailed examination of the circumstances leading to British intervention and hence to the Treaty of Waitangi
