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Governors and Settlers: Images of Authority in the British Colonies, 1820-60 1992nd Edition
Author(s): M. Francis (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 3 Mar. 1992
- Edition: 1992nd
- Language: English
- Print length: 341 pages
- ISBN-10: 0333539044
- ISBN-13: 9780333539040
Book Description
In nineteenth-century settler colonies such as Upper Canada, New South Wales and New Zealand, governors not only administered, they stood at the head of colonial society and ordered the festivities and ceremonies around which colonial life centred. Governors were expected to be repositories of political wisdom and constitutional lore. Governors and Settlers explores the public and private beliefs of governors such as Sir Thomas Brisbane, Sir John Colborne, Sir George Grey and Lord Elgin as they struggled to survive in colonial cultures which both deified and vilified their personal qualities.
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MARK FRANCIS
