Author : M. Francis
Release : 1992-03-03
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 040/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Governors and Settlers by : M. Francis
Download or read book Governors and Settlers written by M. Francis. This book was released on 1992-03-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.