| The Durham Report and British Policy: A Critical Essay Contributor(s): Martin, Ged (Author) |
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ISBN: 052108282X ISBN-13: 9780521082822 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $39.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2008 Annotation: In 1838 the government in Britain sent the radical Lord Durham to Canada as Governor-General to deal with a colony in the aftermath of a rebellion. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Canada - General - History | Western Europe - General - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Dewey: 971.039 |
| Series: Cambridge Commonwealth |
| Physical Information: 0.32" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.40 lbs) 136 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Western Europe - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1838 Lord Melbourne's Whig government in Britain sent the radical Lord Durham to Canada as Governor-General to deal with a colony in the aftermath of a rebellion. Durham's vanity and arrogance made him a poor choice for the post, and he resigned a few months later after the government had been forced to overrule him for exceeding his powers. After his return to Britain he wrote his Report on the Affairs of British North America - and its unauthorized publication in the Times caused a sensation. This report - the famous 'Durham Report' - has been seen as the starting point of the British tradition of colonial self-rule leading through the Statute of Westminster of 1931 to the independent self-governing Commonwealth of today. |