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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, Sorrenson brings together his major writing from the last 56 years into a powerful whole. Throughout his career, Sorrenson has been concerned with world views—to understand Maori conceptions of Kingitanga or Pakeha ideas of racial hierarchies from the inside.
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M.P.K. Sorrenson (Ngati Pukenga, Pakeha) is one of New Zealand's most important living historians. He began as a junior lecturer in the University of Auckland history department in 1958 and taught there for the next 37 years. He was president of CARE in the 1970s, sat on the council of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust for a decade, and was a leading member of the Waitangi Tribunal for 25 years. He is author or editor of numerous books on African and New Zealand history, including Maori Origins and Migrations: The Genesis of some Pakeha Myths and Legends (AUP/OUP, 1979) and Na To Hoa Aroha (From your dear Friend): The Correspondence between Sir Apirana Ngata and Sir Peter Buck, 1925-1950 (AUP, 3 vols,. 1986, 1987, 1988), both of which have just been launched as ebooks by Auckland University Press.
