Colonising New Zealand offers a radically new vision of the basis and process of Britain's colonisation of New Zealand. It confronts moral judgements about colonisation, and investigates the motives behind Britain's imperial expansion, both in a global context, and in relation to New Zealand.

Paul Moon is Professor of History at Auckland University of Technology. He has a Doctor of Philosophy, a Master of Arts, and a Master of Philosophy, and in 2003, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society at University College, London. He also holds several other international fellowships.

0. Introduction Part One: The Moral Empire 1. The Arc of Empire 2. Seeing the Empire 3. The Good with the Bad 4. Moral Evolution 5. Beyond the Moral Empire Part Two: An Imperial Supra-System 6. Contemporaneous Perceptions of the Imperial System 7. The Imperial Ecosystem 8. An Imperial Supra-System Part Three: The Imperial Equilibrium 9. The Imperial Equilibrium 10. Coda