The illustrated account of how M¿ori society was transformed at home while the M¿ori Battalion were fighting overseas.Taking readers to the farms and factories, the marae and churches where M¿ori lived, worked and raised their families, Te Hau K¿inga tells the story of the profound transformation in M¿ori life during the Second World War.While the M¿ori Battalion fought overseas, the M¿ori War Effort Organisation and its tribal committees engaged M¿ori men and women throughout Aotearoa in the home guard, the women's auxiliary forces, and national agricultural and industrial production. M¿ori mobilisation was an exercise of rangatiratanga and it changed how M¿ori engaged with the state. And, as M¿ori men and women took up new roles, the war was to become a watershed event for M¿ori society that set the stage for post-war urbanisation.From ammunition factories to k¿mara fields, from Te Puea H¿rangi to Te Paipera Tapu, Te Hau K¿inga provides the first substantial account of how hapori M¿ori were shaped by the wartime experience at home. It is a story of sacrifice and remarkable resilience among wh¿nau, hap¿ and iwi M¿ori.Te Hau K¿inga is published alongside its companion volume Raupanga: Ng¿ Pito K¿rero o te Pakanga Tuarua n¿ te Hau K¿inga, edited by Angela Wanhalla and Lachy Paterson. Raupanga features thirty-five succinct, illustrated essays exploring the M¿ori home front, translated into te reo M¿ori by Lachy Paterson.