The Rise and Fall of James Busby

One of the British Empire''s most troubling colonial exports in the 19th-century, James Busby is known as the father of the Australian wine industry, the author of New Zealand''s Declaration of Independence and a central figure in the early history of independent New Zealand as its British Resident from 1833 to 1840.

Officially the man on the ground for the British government in the volatile societ...