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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2014
      November 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511783081
      9781108023481
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511783081
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      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.68kg, 542 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social and Population History, Area Studies, British Government, Politics and Policy, British History after 1450, European Studies, Politics and International Relations, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, Area Studies, British Government, Politics and Policy, British History after 1450, European Studies, Politics and International Relations, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century
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    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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