A View of the Art of Colonization Wakefield Paperback Cambridge University Press

A View of the Art of ColonizationWith Present Reference to the British Empire: in Letters between a Statesman and a Colonist\nAuthor(s): Edward Gibbon Wakefield\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108023481, 978-1108023481\nSynopsis\nEdward Gibbon Wakefield [tel] 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.