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Richard Bourke.

Title
Richard Bourke.
Author
King, Hazel.
Publication
Melbourne, New York, Oxford University Press, 1971.

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Description
xv, 312 pages illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
This is a biography of Governor Richard Bourke.
Subject
  • Bourke, Richard, Sir, 1777-1855
  • Bourke, Richard, Sir, 1777-1855
  • Bourke, Richard S
  • History - Biographies - Non-Indigenous
  • Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1788-1850
  • Settlement and contacts - Settlers
  • Race relations - Attitudes
  • Race relations - Violent
  • Sydney (NSW SI56-05)
  • New South Wales (NSW)
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 293-300.
Contents
Part I. The years of war : Youth -- The army 1798-1806 -- South American adventure -- At home and abroad 1807-14 -- Part II. The alien colony -- The cape of good hope 1826-28 : The troubled scene -- Some problems of government -- The 'revolution' at the cape of good hope 1827-28 -- Colonial grievances and the fight for a free press -- Kaffirs and hottentots -- Part III. The settlement colony -- New South Wales 1831-37 : The 'peculiar' colony -- Politics at Botany Bay -- The governor at home -- The expanding colony -- The victims of expansion -- Immigrants -- Bond and free -- Constitutional problems -- Dissensions -- Appendices : First lords of the treasury 1783-1812 -- Prime minister, secretaries and under-secretaries of state for war and the colonies 1812-41.
ISBN
  • 0195503600
  • 9780195503609
LCCN
72185578
OCLC
  • ocm00456781
  • 456781
  • SCSB-354857
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library