Founders of Canterbury - Being Letters From Late Edward Gibbon Wakefield to Late John Robert

Klappentext These letters by Edward Gibbon Wakefield! an influential promoter of emigration to New Zealand! were first published in 1868. Zusammenfassung Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796–1862) was a controversial colonial advocate and political theorist. He formed the New Zealand Association in 1837 with the aim of creating a colony in the country. These letters, written between 1847 and 1850 and published in 1868, reveal Wakefield's involvement in the foundation of Canterbury. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Mr. E. G. Wakefield's letters, 1847-50.

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• Authors: Edward Gibbon Wakefield, Wakefield Edward Gibbon
• Assisted by: Edward Jerningham Wakefield (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.11.2011
• EAN: 9781108039932
• ISBN: 978-1-108-03993-2
• No. of pages: 374
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Australasian & Pacific history, New Zealand, Diaries, letters and journals, Australasian and Pacific history, New Zealand / Aotearoa