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xiv, 282 pages :

illustrations.
Contents: Mobilising the Māori home front. Defending the home front -- Mobilising land and resources -- Workers and workplaces -- The war at home. Patriotic fundraising -- Maintaining the kāinga -- Politics, protests, and petitions -- Māori, churches and faith -- The postwar peace. Homecomings and rehabilitation -- A changing world.
Summary: While the Māori Battalion fought overseas, the Māori War Effort Organisation and its tribal committees engaged Māori men and women throughout Aotearoa in the home guard, the women's auxiliary forces, and national agricultural and industrial production. Māori mobilisation was an exercise of rangatiratanga and it changed how Māori engaged with the state. And, as Māori men and women took up new roles, the war was to become a watershed event for Māori society that set the stage for post-war urbanisation. (Publisher)