William Pember Reeves : New Zealand Fabian / by Keith Sinclair
1965, First Edition. Oxford, England : Clarendon Press. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Some scattered foxing to dust-wrapper. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #398097
Physical description; x, 356 pages, 6 leaves of plates : portraits ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Ch. 1: Parents and pilgrims: 1825-61 -- Ch. 2: Fragments of a childhood: 1861-5 -- Ch. 3: The provincial scholar: 1866-75 -- Ch. 4: Apprenticeships: 1876-86 -- Ch. 5: The working man's friend: 1887 -- Ch. 6: Member of St. Albans: 1887-9 -- Ch. 7: Into power: 1890 -- Ch. 8: The battle joined: 1891 -- Ch. 9: New enterprises: 1891-2 -- Ch. 10: Portraits of the minister: 1892 -- Ch. 11: The captain called away: 1893 -- Ch. 12: Riding the whirlwind: 1893 -- Ch. 13: Victory: 1894 -- Ch. 14: On the defensive: 1895 -- Ch. 15: Retreat: 1895-6 -- Ch. 16: he agent-general: London, 1896-9 -- Ch. 17: Between two worlds: 1897-1901 -- Ch. 18: Imperial reform: 1900-7 -- Ch. 19: Resignation: 1906-8 -- Ch. 20: In the days on the comet: 1906-9 -- Ch. 21: Scholar and Greeks: 1909-19 -- Ch. 22: Pondoland: 1919-32. Subjects; Reeves, William Pember 1857-1932. Fabian Society (Great Britain). Politicians New Zealand ; Biography. Politics and government. Socialism New Zealand. New Zealand Politics and goivernment 20th century. New Zealand Politics and government 19th century. Biographies. British Empire. Colonial policy. Colonialism. Diplomacy. Social reformers.
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