Ko te Whenua te Utu = Land is the price : essays on maori history, land and politics / M. P. K. Sorrenson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sorrenson, M. P. K., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Māori (New Zealand people)--History.

Māori (New Zealand people).

Land tenure--New Zealand--History.

Land tenure.

New Zealand--History.

New Zealand.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Place of Publication:

Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For more than half a century, Keith Sorrenson ? one of New Zealand's leading historians and himself of mixed Maori and Pakeha descent ? has dived deeper than anyone into the story of two peoples in New Zealand. In this new book, Sorrenson brings together his major writing from the last 56 years into a powerful whole ? covering topics from the origins of Maori (and Pakeha ideas about those origins), through land purchases and the King Movement of the nineteenth century, and on to twentieth-century politics and the new history of the Waitangi Tribunal. Throughout his career, Sorrenson has b

Contents:

About the author; Title; Copyright; Contents; Cover; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The Whence of the Maori: Some Nineteenth-century Exercises in Scientific Method; 2 Treaties in British Colonial Policy: Precedents for Waitangi; 3 How to Civilise Savages: Some 'Answers' from Nineteenth-century New Zealand; 4 Folkland to Bookland: F. D. Fenton and the Enclosure of the Māori 'Commons'; 5 Land Purchase Methods and their Effect on Maori Population, 1865-1901; 6 The Maori King Movement, 1858-1885

7 Polynesian Corpuscles and Pacific Anthropology: The Home-made Anthropology of Sir Apirana Ngata and Sir Peter Buck8 Colonial Rule and Local Response: Maori Responses to European Domination in New Zealand since 1860; 9 Maori Representation in Parliament; 10 Towards a Radical Reinterpretation of New Zealand History: The Role of the Waitangi Tribunal; 11 Giving Better Effect to the Treaty: Some Thoughts for 1990; 12 The Waitangi Tribunal and the Resolution of Maori Grievances; 13 Waitangi: Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou; Epilogue; Notes; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 25, 2014).

ISBN:

1-77558-699-5

1-77558-702-9

OCLC:

880447216