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A sort of conscience : the Wakefields / Philip Temple ; cover design, Christine Hansen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Temple, Philip, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wakefield family.
- Wakefield, Edward Gibbon, 1796-1862.
- Wakefield, Edward Gibbon.
- New Zealand--History--19th century--Biography.
- New Zealand.
- New Zealand--Colonization.
- Great Britain--Colonies--History.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (610 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A Sort of Conscience is a remarkably engaging study of the Wakefield family and the early settlement of British colonial societies. It draws on a rich store of sources to paint a portrait of a complex family whose influence crossed the globe. At once notorious and visionary, Edward Gibbon Wakefield and his brothers played a key but controversial role in the early British settlement of New Zealand, Australia and Canada. Once famed as New Zealand's 'Founding Fathers', they have since become the arch-villains of all post-colonial scenarios of the past. Deciding that neither myth made good histori
- Contents:
- About the author; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Genealogy; Part One: This Mottled World; Chapter One: The Matriarch and Her Sons; Chapter Two: Ten Years Too Early; Chapter Three: The Best Boy in the World; Chapter Four: It Might Make One in Love with Death; Chapter Five: By Hook or by Crook; Chapter Six: To Pick the Father's Pocket; Plates 1; Part Two: Forward, Forward Let Us Range 1828-1839; Chapter Seven: This Black Place; Chapter Eight: A Castle in the Air; Chapter Nine: Life as Propaganda; Chapter Ten: A Long and Sore Trial
- Chapter Eleven: Down the Ringing Grooves of ChangeChapter Twelve: Strangers to their Family; Chapter Thirteen: The Ingenious Projector; Chapter Fourteen: 'I would die in your service'; Chapter Fifteen: Possess Yourselves of the Soil; Part Three: War to the Knife 1839-1848; Chapter Sixteen: 'They would extort the masts out of the ship'; Chapter Seventeen: 'I am half a missionary myself'; Chapter Eighteen: Hobson's Choice; Chapter Nineteen: Nursed in Blood; Chapter Twenty: Cui bono?; Chapter Twenty-one: Utu Postponed; Chapter Twenty-two: The New Zealand War
- Chapter Twenty-three: 'He is but cold earth'Chapter Twenty-four: A Highly Excitable Temperament; Plates 2; Part Four: A Suicide of the Affections 1849-1879; Chapter Twenty-five: Flying with a Broken Wing; Chapter Twenty-six: A Slice of England; Chapter Twenty-seven: Noodles; Chapter Twenty-eight: Dead to the Past; Chapter Twenty-nine: 'That Old Giant Spider'; Chapter Thirty: Dead to the Future; Epilogue; Extended Notes; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Temple, Philip. Sort of conscience : the Wakefields.
- ISBN:
- 1-86940-568-4
- OCLC:
- 862829000
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