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A Blighted Fame: George S. Evans 18021868, A Life
Sally Rooney
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 503 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; BGH; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 165 x 36. Weight in Grams: 890.
George Samuel Evans, barrister, editor, and politician, was a man of his time. A brilliant scholar with formidable skills in both oratory and journalism, he was bred to pursue the goals of civil and religious liberty. His dissenting background and upbringing in his father's parish in East London led to his passion for reform. A zealous, hard-working advocate for parliamentary and colonial reform, his path led eventually to New Zealand, a colony of ragged uncertainty, ambition, rivalry, and deprivation.
When Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the architect of the systematic colonization of New Zealand, virtually abandoned his project, it was Evans ... Read more
George Samuel Evans, barrister, editor, and politician, was a man of his time. A brilliant scholar with formidable skills in both oratory and journalism, he was bred to pursue the goals of civil and religious liberty. His dissenting background and upbringing in his father's parish in East London led to his passion for reform. A zealous, hard-working advocate for parliamentary and colonial reform, his path led eventually to New Zealand, a colony of ragged uncertainty, ambition, rivalry, and deprivation.
When Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the architect of the systematic colonization of New Zealand, virtually abandoned his project, it was Evans ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Victoria University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
503
Place of Publication
, New Zealand
ISBN
9780864738967
SKU
V9780864738967
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-14
About Sally Rooney
Helen Riddiford is a former primary school teacher who married Hugh Riddiford, the step-great-great-great-grandson of George S. Evans, in 1994. She began research on Evans's life in 1998 and addressed the New Zealand Historical Association's Conference in 2007 on the subject.
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