A View of the Art of Colonization

With Present Reference to the British Empire: in Letters between a Statesman and a Colonist

Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796-1862) was a controversial colonial advocate and political theorist, who vigorously promoted the colonization of New Zealand and South Australia. This volume, first published in 1849, contains a discussion of Wakefield's influential philosophy of colonization, in the form of letters between himself and an anonymous statesman.