A Sort of Conscience: The WakefieldsThis in-depth portrait of the Wakefield family, who played such a major role in British overseas settlement in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand in the 19th century, is written with a novelistic flavor, using personal letters and journals to bring to life this group of talented but morally complex individuals whose exploits spanned the globe, and who remain an indelible part of British colonial history. |
Contents
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By Hook or By Crook | 70 |
To Pick the Fathers Pocket | 89 |
They would extort the masts out of the ship | 242 |
Hobsons Choice | 282 |
Nursed in Blood | 299 |
Cui Bono? | 323 |
Utu Postponed | 351 |
The New Zealand War | 373 |
He is but cold earth | 391 |
A Highly Excitable Temperament | 411 |
Forward Forward Let Us Range 18281839 | 113 |
This Black Place | 114 |
A Castle in the Air | 126 |
Life as Propaganda | 136 |
A Long and Sore Trial | 149 |
Down the Ringing Grooves of Change | 164 |
Strangers to their Family | 177 |
The Ingenious Projector | 188 |
I would die in your service | 209 |
Possess Yourselves of the Soil | 223 |
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