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Patronage and Politics in the Victorian Empire - The Personal Governance of Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon (Lord Stanmore) (Hardcover, New)
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Patronage and Politics in the Victorian Empire - The Personal Governance of Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon (Lord Stanmore) (Hardcover, New)
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This innovative approach is based primarily on Gordon's abundant
private papers, colonial office patronage files, territorial files,
and colonial office lists of appointments and promotions in the
crown colonies he governed. By digging deeper and using these
neglected tools, his personal network of friends and allies can be
reconstructed and its utility for his administrative purposes and
his career advancement assessed. Moreover, since the 1960s, there
has been a steady output of country histories using local records
as well as metropolitan sources and providing a better contextual
background to Gordon's work. This is especially true for crown
colonies in the West Indies and the Indian Ocean in the aftermath
of slave emancipation, where Gordon encountered planter opposition
to reform of immigrant indenture. It is no less true for Fiji and
Ceylon (Sri Lanka) where there is a particular need to reassess the
work of a man who is held responsible, in the first case, for
creating an administrative system that entrenched indigenous
political and economic rights at the expense of Indian settlers,
and in the second for holding his civil service in contempt and
favouring the leaders of one indigenous caste at the expense of
others. For New Brunswick and New Zealand, too, there are strong
reasons for revising earlier judgements concerning his role in
applying imperial policy in the period before Canadian
confederation or for exceeding his constitutional role in
investigating Maori land issues. The intended academic readership,
therefore, includes political scientists and anthropologists with
an interest in patron-client relations, as well as students and
historians familiar with the controversies surrounding imperial
studies and the emergence of new states.
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