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Article: Governor and Settlers: Images of Authority in the British Colonies, 1820-1860.
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- December 1, 1992
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Governor and Settlers: Images of Authority in the British Colonies, 1820-60, by Mark Francis. London, England, Macmillan, 1992. ix, 331 pp. $45.00.
After a generation of detailed studies of individual British colonies emphasizing local factors in their development and with little or no reference to the structure of empire or direction and influence from the metropolitan power, Mark Francis's book is a welcome contribution to the rethinking of shared issues and the reintegration of imperial history. His object is to see common patterns in the various parts of the empire in the early nineteenth century, thereby creating a new and better framework for the ...