Sort of Conscience
The Wakefields
Published on 1. October 2013
608 pages
978-1-77558-501-5 (ISBN)
Description
This 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.
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Content
- Cover
- 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 Change
- Chapter 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
