He has published numerous articles on the settlement and history of Aotearoa New Zealand, and is currently working on a manuscript concerned with Indigenous law and settler society.
It is set in 1860, when Waiuku was on the border between the Māori King Movement and the expanding settler society, and the First Taranaki War was just beginning.
His journals are regarded as amongst the most important of early documents of the early years of Victoria, being significant for its observations on Koorie culture, early Melbourne personalities, landscape and settler society.
Treaty rights are certain rights that were reserved by indigenous peoples when they signed treaties with settler societies in the wake of European colonization.
NZ shares some of its history with the rest of Polynesia, and with other European settler societies, but has unique features as well.
McRae recorded the establishment of pastoral settler society in his country while he was a labourer on pastoral stations in northern Victoria.
D Pearson, "Theorizing citizenship in British settler societies" Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2002.
Across much of Ireland a multitude of practical, and sometimes friendly, ties bound elements of Irish and the settler society together.
This has produced a cultural preference in settler societies for privacy and space.
In areas where the indigenous nations were decimated by epidemics and their cultures, suffered generations of set-back the settler societies quickly outnumbered the colonized.