Buying the Land, Selling the Land
HISTORY CATEGORY WINNER 2009
Buying the Land, Selling the Land - Richard Boast
Victoria University Press, ISBN 978-0-86473-561-4, $60.00 pbk
This is a study of Crown Maori land policy and practice in the period 1865–1929. The story the book tells is in many ways a bleak and grim one of a tsunami of Crown purchasing crashing over a people who were in very difficult circumstances. Yet Buying the Land, Selling the Land is something of a reaction to the ‘the-Crown-has-been-very-naughty’ school of New Zealand history. Alienation of land by sale requires two parties, a buyer and a seller. This book is about both.
Richard Boast is an Associate Professor of Law at Victoria University and currently teaches property law, legal history and energy and resources law. Richard also practises in the area of Maori and Treaty litigation and represents several iwi groups in inquiries currently being heard by the Waitangi Tribunal.
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