A View of the Art of Colonization: With Present Reference to the British Empire: In Letters Between a Statesman and a Colonist (Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108023487 ISBN 13: 9781108023481

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796–1862) was a controversial colonial advocate and political theorist, who was the driving force behind the early colonization of New Zealand and South Australia. Barred from entering parliament after serving a three-year sentence in Newgate Prison, Wakefield read widely on contemporary economics and social questions, developing his influential theory of colonization. He formed the New Zealand Association in 1837 to create a new colony in that country, finally emigrating himself in 1852. This volume, first published in 1849, contains an explanation of Wakefield's philosophy of colonization. Writing in the form of letters to an anonymous statesman, Wakefield fully explores and discusses the social, political and economic aspects of his system of colonization, based on regulating emigration by fixing the price of land. Wakefield's ideas influenced early colonial economic policy in South Australia, and stimulated the development of later theories of colonization.

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Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796–1862) was a controversial colonial advocate and political theorist, who vigorously promoted the colonization of New Zealand and South Australia. This volume, first published in 1849, contains a discussion of Wakefield's influential philosophy of colonization, in the form of letters between himself and an anonymous statesman.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108023487
• ISBN 13: 9781108023481
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 542
• Editor: Wakefield Edward Gibbon