Author: Publisher:
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Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Letters from New Plymouth, 1843
Author: Letters from Settlers & Labouring Emigrants, in the New Zealand Company's Settlements of Wellington, Nelson, & New Plymouth
Author: Letters From Settlers & Labouring Emigrants In The New Zealand Company's
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385121434
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Unfinished Empire
Author: John DarwinPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620400391
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
John Darwin's After Tamerlane, a sweeping six-hundred-year history of empires around the globe, marked him as a historian of "massive erudition" and narrative mastery. In Unfinished Empire, he marshals his gifts to deliver a monumental one-volume history of Britain's imperium-a work that is sure to stand as the most authoritative, most compelling treatment of the subject for a generation. Darwin unfurls the British Empire's beginnings and decline and its extraordinary range of forms of rule, from settler colonies to island enclaves, from the princely states of India to ramshackle trading posts. His penetrating analysis offers a corrective to those who portray the empire as either naked exploitation or a grand "civilizing mission." Far from ever having a "master plan," the British Empire was controlled by a range of interests often at loggerheads with one another and was as much driven on by others' weaknesses as by its own strength. It shows, too, that the empire was never stable: to govern was a violent process, inevitably creating wars and rebellions. Unfinished Empire is a remarkable, nuanced history of the most complex polity the world has ever known, and a serious attempt to describe the diverse, contradictory ways-from the military to the cultural-in which empires really function. This is essential reading for any lover of sweeping history, or anyone wishing to understand how the modern world came into being.
Tom's Letters
Author: Margot FryPublisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 9780864733917
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The correspondence of Thomas King, from his arrival in New Plymouth in 1841, following his progress in business, politics and his family life. It allows us to see the pleasures and pressures of colonial life, and gives an insight into Victorian marriage.
The Hand-book for New Zealand
Author: Edward Jerningham WakefieldPublisher: London : J.W. Parker
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
My Hand Will Write what My Heart Dictates
Author: Frances PorterPublisher: Bridget Williams Books
ISBN: 1869401298
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
The women of this book are mainly Pakeha. They are domestic servants, governors' wives and farmers, married, single, widowed or deserted. They write about love, friendship, children, destitution, illness and grief. Maori women write about land, loss and love, about families and domestic events - in both Maori and English.
Catalogue
Author: New South Wales Free Public Library, SydneyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
Catalogue of the Free Public Library, Sydney, for the Years 1869-87
Author: Public Library of New South WalesPublisher:
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Letter Writing and Language Change
Author: Anita AuerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139992031
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Letter Writing and Language Change outlines the historical sociolinguistic value of letter analysis, both in theory and practice. The chapters in this volume make use of insights from all three 'Waves of Variation Studies', and many of them, either implicitly or explicitly, look at specific aspects of the language of the letter writers in an effort to discover how those writers position themselves and how they attempt, consciously or unconsciously, to construct social identities. The letters are largely from people in the lower strata of social structure, either to addressees of the same social status or of a higher status. In this sense the question of the use of 'standard' and/or 'nonstandard' varieties of English is in the forefront of the contributors' interest. Ultimately, the studies challenge the assumption that there is only one 'legitimate' and homogenous form of English or of any other language.