Why wasn't the Treaty of Waitangi framed in terms of a feudal exchange, rather than a surrender of sovereignty?

Upvote:2

I doubt that there was comprehensive intent from the UK side to be actually bound by the treaty. As such, having substantial difference between the English and the Maori version is not a bug, but rather a feature. I am not necessarily assuming duplicity of each individual Brit involved with drafting and signing the treaty, merely on the overall system level.

Treaties signed between colonial powers and non-European-(decendent) groups, which are later interpreted differently by the colonial power than by the treaty partner, and either ignored or used as a pretex for an extension of colonial rule are a recurring feature of colonialism. Conversely, I cannot think of any treaty in such a sitution which was not signed under duress and actually adhered to.

Arno 1107

📝 What effects did World War II have on Japanese animation industry?
📝 The Goths and The Roman Empire (Alaric)
📝 What was the meaning behind these lip make-ups in Ancient China?
📝 Could prisoners be pardoned in 1832 France under the July Monarchy?
📝 Was it ever illegal for two people of different religions to marry in the UK?
📝 ِWhen did sexual life outside marriage became popular in Europe? and why?
📝 At which point in time did the majority of German population become aware of the Holocaust?
📝 What is the term for a person who surveys the land and relays messages from a noble to his governed village?
📝 Japan allying with Germany in WWII
📝 Has an armed gang ever taken a medieval city?
📝 As newly independent countries after WWI, why didn't Baltic states have sovereignty dispute and war each other like other Eastern European countries?
📝 Flag flying dynamics
📝 Why are some amphoras pointed on the bottom?
📝 Was the insanity of kings used as an argument against monarchy?
📝 What was going to be Hitler's next plan after taking Russia?
📝 Why did the Government of India Act create separate electorates for the depressed classes?
📝 Profit of slave labor in America
📝 Copper and Bronze Age Burials in Western Europe
📝 What is the origin of the name Fallopian tubes?
📝 Marbury vs Madison, what about other midnight judges?
📝 What were the global economic consequences of the 1918 flu pandemic?
📝 In the past were there gifts on the days leading up to Christmas instead of them all being on the one day?
📝 Which trade route took the longest (in time) to travel?
📝 Was merchant Hugh McCulloch the first Scotsman to set foot in California?
📝 What was Shakespeare's motive to make Richard III seem like a villain?
📝 What was the reason for the Dutch attack on Venezuela in 1908?
📝 How do I differentiate ancient ceramic from today's junk?
📝 What is the origin of the names of planets in Arabic?
📝 Has the accounting services industry ever been disrupted in the U.S.?
📝 What major Native American tribes were around Santa Fe during the late 1850s?

Source: stackoverflow.com

Travel Tips

Search Posts

📝 Why wasn't the Treaty of Waitangi framed in terms of a feudal exchange, rather than a surrender of sovereignty?
📝 Why did Bayer lose aspirin and heroin trademarks under the 1919 Treaty of Versailles?
📝 Why was the Treaty of Versailles so harsh?
📝 Why did the Spanish take the island of Annobon in the Treaty of El Pardo in 1778?
📝 Why did the British take Hong Kong instead of any other of the later treaty ports?
📝 Why did the Roberts Treaty of 1833 have a Portuguese translation annexed to it?
📝 Why did Spain trade Florida to the British in exchange for Havana?
📝 Why did the Allies let Hitler break the Treaty of Versailles?
📝 Why was the Jay Treaty so hated by the American public?
📝 Why was religion used as the basis of Turkey-Greece population exchange instead of language, ethnicity, etc.?
📝 Why did India sign the Indo-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation?
📝 Why does the Central Treaty Organization include the word "central"?
📝 In a feudal system the king would give land to the knights in exchange for military services. Where did he get his money from then?
📝 Why did Hitler attack the Soviet Union when he was still busy fighting the United Kingdom?
📝 Why did Native Americans die from European diseases while Europeans didn't catch serious diseases from the New World?
📝 Why did the Confederacy think they could win the American Civil War?
📝 Why did archery not make a comeback when armor was phased out in the 18th century?
📝 Why was Poland spared from the Black Death?
📝 Why didn't Imperial Japan attack the Soviet Union during World War 2?
📝 Why didn't Germany blockade the Strait of Gibraltar during WW2?
📝 Why does the United States keep using "old" date representations and imperial system, while being in the minority?
📝 Why is the consensus that WW2 started on September 1, 1939 and not July 7, 1937?
📝 Why did the British scuttle the u-boats surrendered after WWII?
📝 Why didn't France and the UK invade Germany in September 1939?
📝 Why did Canada not join the American Revolution?
📝 Why was Africa colonized last of the continents in the Age of Discovery?
📝 Why did Churchill order the destruction of the bombes?
📝 Why did the USSR give Crimea to Ukraine?
📝 Why did the Western Roman Empire collapse but not the Eastern Roman Empire?
📝 Why did stock brokers go bankrupt after the crash of 1929?

Why wasn't the Treaty of Waitangi framed in terms of a feudal exchange, rather than a surrender of sovereignty?

More post

Search Posts

Related post