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A View of the Art of Colonization: With Present Reference to the British Empire: in Letters between a Statesman and a Colonist

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title A View of the Art of Colonization: With Present Reference to the British Empire: in Letters between a Statesman and a Colonist
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Edward Gibbon Wakefield
SeriesCambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:542
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
ISBN/Barcode 9781108023481
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 25 November 2010
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.