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.