Edward Gibbon Wakefield is usually credited with devising a new, 'rational' system of colonization, propounded in a series of books and articles between 1829 and 1837. Certainly, this is what his contemporary champions would have us believe but, rather than identifying what he propounds as an...
Edward Gibbon Wakefield: This interesting man wes an.enigma.Nothing about himwas ordinary. Even his faults were extraordinary,but generally of an amiable kind. He faced theworld with two extremely potent weapons: a vision capable ofpiercing the thickest 'problem,...
Wakefield was born in London on 20 March 1796, the eldest son of Edward Wakefield, a radical Quaker philanthropist, statistician, and author of a standard work on Ireland which was highly regarded by...doi:10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1292Donald Winch...
EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD AND THE COLONIAL DREAM: A Reconsideration.(Review)METCALF, WILLIAM J
Using the writings of Edward Gibbon Wakefield and his contemporaries, this article examines the settler as a problem in British liberal thought. Wakefield's unease about the settler as a political subject drew together three contemporary discourses, the critique of American society, post-Malthus ...
A.J. Harrop, The Amazing Career of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, London, 1928, p.92; Temple, pp.175-6. Wakefield's earlier awareness of the possibilities of New Zealand is indicated in England and America, p.579n, and J.S. Marais, The Colonisation of New Zealand, Oxford, 1927, p.26. ...
EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD: Abductor and Mystagogue.(Review)METCALF, WILLIAM J
Edward Gibbon Wakefield: A Political ReappraisalEdward Gibbon Wakefield: A Political Reappraisal - 1963 by John Norman. Read Edward Gibbon Wakefield: A Political Reappraisal now at Questia.By John Norman
Edward Gibbon Wakefield (born March 20, 1796, London, Eng.—died May 16, 1862, Wellington, N.Z.) was a British colonizer of South Australia and New Zealand and inspirer of the Durham Report (1839) on Canadian colonial policy. In 1814 Wakefield became secretary to the British minister at ...
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