“The way Cook overlaid English names on Te Waipounamu, Te Ika-a-Māui and the other islands that make up ‘New Zealand’ was (and continues to be) a powerful means of claiming intellectual and political sovereignty.” — Tony Ballantyne, in ‘Captain Cook and the Unsettled Afterlives of Empire’.
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“Within Māori framings of the past, Cook has become one of the most potent symbols of empire and its bitter and enduring legacies.” — Historian Tony Ballantyne, author of ‘Captain Cook and the Unsettled Afterlives of Empire’.
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