Download or read book Sir Edmund Head written by Donald Gordon Grady Kerr and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1954-12-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century ago, in 1854, Sir Edmund Head became governor general of Canada. His earlier career as Oxford don, chief Poor Law commissioner during the "hungry forties," and lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick, had prepared him to succeed Lord Elgin in this senior post in the British colonial service. Combining the outlook and training of a scholar with a long administrative experience in difficult posts, Head had a clear insight into British North American problems, and was able to guide British and Canadian politicians toward their solution in the creation of the new Dominion of Canada. Later, as Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, he carried negotiations for the transfer of the Company's territories to the verge of conclusion before his sudden death in 1868. Neglected until recently by Canadian historians, the significance of the work of one of Britain's greatest colonial administrators is only now beginning to be appreciated. Professor Kerr's biography creates a lively and convincing picture of Head and colonial life at a critical period. Based on careful research among the public documents of the period, and making use as well of Head's private letters to close friends in England and North America, it is the first full-scale treatment available of this philosophic and capable governor whose influence on Canadian national development was so important.
Download or read book The Baronetage of England Or the History of the English Baronets and Such Baronets of Scotland as are of English Families written by William Betham and published by . This book was released on 1802 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art written by National Art Library (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art Compiled for the Use of the National Art Library and the Schools of Art in the United Kingdom by Order of the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education written by Great Britain. Department of Science and Art and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Foreign Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Play of Dux Moraud written by Margaret Frazer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-08-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performing at the wedding of Sir Edmund Deneby's daughter, the player Joliffe has another task to perform—as a spy. As he uncovers the secrets of the Denebys' sordid history, it becomes clear that this wedding celebration is destined to end in tragedy.
Download or read book Canada s Governors General 1847 1878 written by Barbara Jane Messamore and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oft-ignored in the study of Canadian history or dismissed as a vestige of colonial status, the governor general's office provides essential historical insight into Canada's constitutional evolution. In the nineteenth century, as today, individual governors general exercised considerable scope in interpreting their approach to the office. The era 1847-1878 witnessed profound changes in Canada's relationship with Britain, and in this new book, Barbara J. Messamore explores the nature of these changes through an examination of the role of the governor general. Guided by outmoded instructions and constitutional conventions that were not yet firmly established, the governors general of the time - Lord Elgin, Sir Edmund Head, Lord Monck, Lord Lisgar, and Lord Dufferin - all wrestled with the implications of colonial self government. The imprecision of the viceregal role made the character of the appointee especially important and biographical details are thus essential to an understanding of how the new experiment of colonial self-government was put into practice. Messamore's book marries constitutional history and biography, providing illumination on some of the key figures of nineteenth-century Canadian politics.
Download or read book Axe heads and Identity written by Katharine Walker and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to re-assess the significance accorded to the body of stone and flint axe-heads imported into Britain from the Continent which have until now often been poorly understood, overlooked and undervalued in Neolithic studies.
Download or read book The Round Table Movement and the Fall of the Second British Empire 1909 1919 written by Andrea Bosco and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of the general phobia of federalism, there is a strong federalist trend within British political culture. In three very different historical contexts, federalism inspired the action of political movements such as the Imperial Federation League, the Round Table and the Federal Union. Indeed, it was regarded as the solution to problems arising from the first signs of the possible collapse of Great Britain and its Empire. The Round Table Movement played a particularly interesting role in this regard, attempting to reverse the rapid and inexorable decline of the British Empire. It was a political organisation with roots in all the major peripheries of the Empire and almost unlimited financial resources. This volume discusses the strategies and means employed by the group in order to maintain the British Empire’s global prominence. The book’s main argument is that we did not have a “British century” – the nineteenth – and an “American century” – the twentieth – but, rather, four centuries of Anglo–Saxon supremacy, which witnessed the affirmation of the national principle – expression of the Continental political tradition – and its overcoming through its opposite, the federal principle, the expression of the insular political tradition.
Download or read book Life Letters and Journals of George Ticknor written by George Ticknor and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Life Letters and Journals of George Ticknor written by George Ticknor and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
