Governers and Settlers

by Mark Francis

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333539044
• ISBN13: 9780333539040
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 331 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"