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The Founders of Canterbury - Being Letters from the Late Edward Gibbon Wakefield to the Late John Robert Godley, and to Other Well-Known Helpers in the Foundation of the Settlement of Canterbury in New Zealand (Paperback)
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The Founders of Canterbury - Being Letters from the Late Edward Gibbon Wakefield to the Late John Robert Godley, and to Other Well-Known Helpers in the Foundation of the Settlement of Canterbury in New Zealand (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania
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Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796-1862) was a colonial advocate and
political theorist, who was influential in the early colonisation
of New Zealand and South Australia. Wakefield read widely on
contemporary economics and social questions, and his theory of
colonisation helped shape the British Empire. He formed the New
Zealand Association in 1837 to create a new colony in that country,
finally emigrating himself in 1852. His son, the editor of this
volume of letters, was appointed secretary of the first settler
expedition to New Zealand in 1839, and was elected political
representative for Canterbury in 1854. The letters in the volume,
published in 1868, which span the period 1847-50, trace the history
of the town of Canterbury from Wakefield senior's suggestion of
church-led settlement in the 1840s to its foundation in 1850-1. A
planned second volume was never published.
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