Ko te whenua te utu = Land is the price : essays on Māori history, land and politics / M.P.K. Sorrenson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The whence of the Māori : some nineteenth-century exercises in scientific method -- Treaties in British colonial policy : precedents for Waitangi -- How to civilise savages : some 'answers' from nineteenth-century New Zealand -- Folkland to bookland : F.D. Fenton and the enclosure of the Māori 'commons' -- Land purchase methods and their effect on Māori population, 1865-1901 -- The Māori King movement, 1858-1885 -- Polynesian corpuscles and pacific anthropology : the home-made anthropology of Sir Apirana Ngata and Sir Peter Buck -- Colonial rule and local response : Māori responses to European domination in New Zealand since 1860 -- Māori representation in parliament -- Towards a radical reinterpretation of New Zealand history : the role of the Waitangi Tribunal -- Giving better effect to the treaty : some thoughts for 1990 -- The Waitangi Tribunal and the resolution of Māori grievances -- Waitangi : Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou.

"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 nineteenth century, and on to twentieth-century politics and the new history of the Waitangi Tribunal. Throughout his career, Sorrenson has been concerned with the international context for 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 Maori losses of land and their political responses as, in the face of Pakeha 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"--Publisher information.