This month we are giving away a copy of Ko te Whenua te Utu/Land is the Price, by Keith Sorrenson. To enter the draw, please email your name and address to Alumni Relations Manager Caroline Roughneen at c.roughneen@auckland.ac.nz. The winner will be notified on 2 May 2014.
For more than half a century, Keith Sorrenson – one of New Zealand’s leading historians and himself of mixed Māori and Pākehā 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 Māori (and Pākehā ideas about those origins), through land purchases and the King Movement of the 19th Century, to 20th Century politics and the workings of the Waitangi Tribunal. Throughout his career, Sorrenson has been concerned with the international context of New Zealand history while also attempting to understand and explain Māori conceptions and Pākehā ideas from the inside. And he has been determined to tell the real story of Māori land losses and their political responses as, in the face of Pākehā colonisation, they became a minority in their own country. Ko te Whenua te Utu/ Land is the Price is a powerful history of Māori and Pākehā in New Zealand.
The author
This month we are giving away a copy of Ko te Whenua te Utu/Land is the Price, by Keith Sorrenson. To enter the draw, please email your name and address to Alumni Relations Manager Caroline Roughneen at c.roughneen@auckland.ac.nz. The winner will be notified on 2 May 2014.
For more than half a century, Keith Sorrenson – one of New Zealand’s leading historians and himself of mixed Māori and Pākehā 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 Māori (and Pākehā ideas about those origins), through land purchases and the King Movement of the 19th Century, to 20th Century politics and the workings of the Waitangi Tribunal. Throughout his career, Sorrenson has been concerned with the international context of New Zealand history while also attempting to understand and explain Māori conceptions and Pākehā ideas from the inside. And he has been determined to tell the real story of Māori land losses and their political responses as, in the face of Pākehā colonisation, they became a minority in their own country. Ko te Whenua te Utu/ Land is the Price is a powerful history of Māori and Pākehā in New Zealand.
The author
MPK Sorrenson (Ngati Pukenga, Pākehā) began as a junior lecturer in the University of Auckland history department in 1958 and completed a DPhil at Oxford. He returned to Auckland in 1964, where he taught for the next 31 years. He was president of CARE in the 1970s and was a leading member of the Waitangi Tribunal for 25 years. His books include Māori Origins and Migrations (1979) and the three-volume work Na To Hoa Aroha, From Your Dear Friend: The Correspondence between Sir Apirana Ngata and Sir Peter Buck, 1925–1950 (1986, 1987, 1988), both of which have recently been launched as e-books by Auckland University Press.
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