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In this major work, one of our leading historians offers a new account of the origins of New Zealand: how Pakeha settlers – nurtured on Enlightenment thought and evangelical humanitarianism – encountered Maori, and how the two peoples together developed a distinctively experimental society. With James Cook' s arrival in 1769 and the subsequent colonisation, New Zealand became one of the few post-Enlightenment experiments in creating a new nation anywhere in the world. The Europeans who settled these islands brought with them a belief in the power of reason and experience to improve peoples and societies. Encounters between Maori and these new arrivals profoundly shaped the thoughts and b...
The Sons of the Republic of Texas tells the story of the Republic of Texas beginning with its birth on April 21, 1836. Includes a brief history of the Sons of the Republic of Texas from 1893 to the present. The text is complemented by over 100 pages of family and ancestral biographies of members of the Sons of the Republic of Texas past and present. Indexed
Henry Sewall, son of Henry Sewall and Margaret Gresbrook, was baptized 8 April 1576 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England. He died in Rowley, Massachusetts in 1655/6. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in England, Massachusetts, New York and Maine.
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