Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jul 19, 2024 6:25:40 GMT 12
Caleb Anderson: OF COURSE SOVEREIGNTY WAS CEDED.
A significant number on the left of politics support, or are agnostic in the face of, repeated assertions that Maori did not cede sovereignty in 1840. We have had a fair dose of this in recent weeks. How come?
In the minds of most historians, present and past (i.e. those ignored by academic, media, and activist elites), the weight of evidence leans strongly in favour of the cession of sovereignty. Not least a growing state of civil disorder during the period in question, the (often historic) conflict between tribal groups, the not-too-distant memory of the devastation of intertribal warfare, and its aftermath, and the desperate situation faced by the less powerful tribes, seems to situate the cession of sovereignty assumption on solid ground.
Coupled with the documentary evidence of the time, a multiplicity of subsequent events and utterances (both sides), the unlikelihood of the most powerful empire of the time agreeing to a shared, or temporary, assumption of authority, and the fact that such an arrangement would have had absolutely no significant historical precedent, seem to make the cession of sovereignty a slam dunk.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/07/caleb-anderson-of-course-sovereignty.html
A significant number on the left of politics support, or are agnostic in the face of, repeated assertions that Maori did not cede sovereignty in 1840. We have had a fair dose of this in recent weeks. How come?
In the minds of most historians, present and past (i.e. those ignored by academic, media, and activist elites), the weight of evidence leans strongly in favour of the cession of sovereignty. Not least a growing state of civil disorder during the period in question, the (often historic) conflict between tribal groups, the not-too-distant memory of the devastation of intertribal warfare, and its aftermath, and the desperate situation faced by the less powerful tribes, seems to situate the cession of sovereignty assumption on solid ground.
Coupled with the documentary evidence of the time, a multiplicity of subsequent events and utterances (both sides), the unlikelihood of the most powerful empire of the time agreeing to a shared, or temporary, assumption of authority, and the fact that such an arrangement would have had absolutely no significant historical precedent, seem to make the cession of sovereignty a slam dunk.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/07/caleb-anderson-of-course-sovereignty.html