Edward Eyre, Race And Colonial Governance (Otago History Series)
Publisher: University of Otago Press
Published: October 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781877372070
Subjects: Biography: general; Colonization & independence; History; Political; History: World; Australia; Jamaica; New Zealand; Modern - 19th Century; 19th century; Biography; Colonial administrators; Colonies; Great Britain; Indigenous peoples; Politics and government
Description: Edward Eyre, the mid-19th century explorer, colonial administrator, and later colonial governor, is remembered as the enlightened defender of Aboriginal rights in Australia, and as the reviled 'butcher of Jamaica' in England and the Caribbean. This book explores Eyre's life and works, and the imperial obligations that framed his administrations.