The Rise and Fall of James Busby: His Majesty`s British Resident in New Zealand, Paul Moon

Автор: Paul Moon
Название: The Rise and Fall of James Busby: His Majesty`s British Resident in New Zealand
ISBN: 1350116653 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350116658
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: One of the British Empire’s most troubling colonial exports in the 19th-century, James Busby is known as the father of the Australian wine industry, the author of New Zealand’s Declaration of Independence and a central figure in the early history of independent New Zealand as its British Resident from 1833 to 1840.Officially the man on the ground for the British government in the volatile society of New Zealand in the 1830s, Busby endeavoured to create his own parliament and act independently of his superiors in London. This put him on a collision course with the British Government, and ultimately destroyed his career. With a reputation as an inept, conceited and increasingly embittered person, this caricature of Busby’s character has slipped into the historical bloodstream where it remains to the present day. This book draws on an extensive range of previously-unused archival records to reconstruct Busby’s life in much more intimate form, and exposes the back-room plotting that ultimately destroyed his plans for New Zealand. It will alter the way that Britain’s colonisation of New Zealand is understood, and will leave readers with an appreciation of how individuals, more than policies, shaped the Empire and its rule.

Автор: Board of Trade
Название: Report of the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council on the Commerce and Navigation between His Majesty`s Dominions, and the Territories Belonging to the United States of America
ISBN: 1108025021 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108025027
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This 1791 report on the balance of trade between Britain and the United States inquired into the effects of new American duties on trade with Britain. In this context, the prosperity of the British West Indian colonies depended entirely on their slave-based economy, and abolition was therefore thought impossible.

Автор: Grant
Название: The Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery, Performed in His Majesty`s Vessel the Lady Nelson … in the Years 1800, 1801, and 1802, to New South Wales
ISBN: 1108039413 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108039413
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: In 1800-2 the naval officer James Grant (1772-1833) sailed the Lady Nelson to Australia in order to test a new design of keel. This 1803 publication describes the sea trials, together with his impressions of Cape Town and Australia, their natural history and their indigenous and colonial populations.