At the margin of Empire : John Webster and Hokianga, 1841-1900 / Jennifer Ashton.
"Born in Scotland in 1818, John Webster came in New Zealand via Australia in 1841 after narrowly escaping death in the outback following a violent encounter with a group of Aboriginal men. He spent most of the rest of his life in the Hokianga region, carving out a fortune as the region's l...
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Auckland, New Zealand :
University of Auckland,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. The making of an imperial man
- 2. Hokianga and the river trade
- 3. Among the Queen's people: the Northern War, 1845-1846
- 4. A voyage through the Pacific, 1848-1851
- 5. Hokianga's timber baron, 1855-1870
- 6. War and politics in the 1860s
- 7. Hokianga old and new, 1870-1890
- 8. Unquiet retirement, 1880s-1900
- Epilogue.