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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790944603321

Autore

Sorrenson M. P. K.

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Auckland, New Zealand : , : Auckland University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-77558-699-5

1-77558-702-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p.)

Disciplina

993.101

Soggetti

Māori (New Zealand people) - History

Land tenure - New Zealand - History

New Zealand History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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