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The Governors : New Zealand's Governors and Governors-General / Gavin McLean.
- Title
- The Governors : New Zealand's Governors and Governors-General / Gavin McLean.
- Author
- McLean, Gavin
- Publication
- Dunedin, N.Z. : Otago University Press, 2006.
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- Description
- 424 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports.; 27 cm.
- Summary
- "They were New Zealand's First Citizens: Grey, Jervois, Fergusson, Bledisloe ... Their names litter the landscape, adorning buildings, streets, entire towns - even hills, rivers and waterfalls. But little has been written about the people who have occupied Government House, especially the successors to Hobson, FitzRoy and Grey." "The Governors, the world's first such full national study, explains the important constitutional milestones in the evolution of an office that says much about New Zealand's political and constitutional journey."--Jacket.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : performing the functions of a stamp? -- Part I. Soldiers and engineers of Empire (1840-89) -- Empire's shock-absorbers : Gipps, Hobson, FitzRoy & Grey, 1840-83 -- 'Take away the key' : Browne & Grey, 1853-68 -- Humbugs and memorandumiads : Bowen, Sir James Fergusson, Normanby & Robinson, 1868-80 -- 'Presiding at charity dinners and entertaining large parties of stupid people' : Gordon & Jervois, 1880-9 -- Part II. Vice-regal ceremonial (1860s-1970s) -- 'He looked at all the men's boots to see that the heels were cleaned' : governors and ceremonies -- Part III. Holiday jobs or outdoor relief for the aristocracy? (1889-1920) -- 'A governor's life is not a bad one except when he has constitutional questions to debate with his ministers' : Onslow, Glasgow & Ranfurly, 1889-1904 -- Knights of the Round Table : Plunket, Islington & Liverpool, 1904-20 -- Part IV. A new imperial system (1917-31) -- Winds of change or gentle zephyrs? : constitutional change within empire -- Part V. Whisky and soda warriors (1920-72) -- 'Successful sailors and soldiers' : Jellicoe & Fergusson, 1920-30 -- Nation within empire : Bledisloe, 1930-5 -- Whisky and soda warriors : Galway, Newell & Freyberg, 1935-52 -- The last ten thousand pound Poms : Norrie, Cobham, Fergusson & Porritt, 1952-72 -- Part VI. Home-grown (1972- ) -- Kiwis become 'the Queen in drag' : Blundell, Holyoake & Beattie, 1972-85 -- Virtual heads of state? : Reeves, Tizard, Hardie Boys & Cartwright, 1985-2006 -- Stocktakes and discussions -- Appendices. Office-holders ; Titles and honours ; 'At home' : life in Government House.
- ISBN
- 9781877372254
- 1877372250 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2006497289
- OCLC
- 77197365
- SCSB-12841000
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library