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Edward Gibbon Wakefield : the colonization of South Australia and New Zealand

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Chapter I
Wakefield's Ancestry and Early Years—Westminster and Edinburgh Schools—Employment under Foreign Office—First Marriage—Death of His Wife—Diplomatic Post at Paris—Early Writings 		1
Chapter II
The Turner Abduction—Wakefield's Trial—His Imprisonment and Its Results—Letters from Gaol 		29
Chapter III
Wakefield's Early Writings—'The Punishment of Death'—'Letter from Sydney'—The Wakefield System—'England and America'—Wakefield on the Agricultural Labourer 		50
Chapter IV
The Colonization Society—The Swan River Settlement—The Foundation of South Australia — The South Australian Commissioners — Mr G. F. Angas — Nina Wakefield — Her Death — Early Struggles of the Colony—Testimony to the Wakefield System 		84 page xxvi
Chapter V
Project for Colonization of New Zealand—Condition of the Islands in 1837—The New Zealand Association—The Church Missionary Society—Lord Durham—Lord Howick — The New Zealand Company — Obstruction from the Government—First Expedition 		125
Chapter VI
Wakefield in Canada with Lord Durham in 1838—Recall of the Mission—The Durham Report—Wakefield's Subsequent Visits to Canada 		158
Chapter VII
The Planting of New Zealand—The Company's Instructions to Its Agents—Colonel William Wakefield—His Land Purchases—Native Reserves—Treaty of Waitangi—Frustration of French Designs upon the Colony 		192
Chapter VIII
Settlement of Wellington—Ill-judged Proclamation of Governor Hobson—Auckland made the Seat of Government—The Company and the Colonial Office—Massacre of Wairau—Governors Fitzroy and Grey—Wakefield's Illness 		216
Chapter IX
The Transportation Committee—The Colonial Lands Committee—The New Zealand Committees of 1840 and 1844—The New Zealand Company and Lord Stanley—Debates in the Commons—Wakefield and Adam Smith—Politics for the People, 		234 page xxvii
Chapter X
The Last Days of the New Zealand Company—John Robert Godley—Sir George Grey's Administration—Death of Colonel Wakefield—'The Art of Colonization'—Criticism of M. Leroy-Beaulieu—Death of Charles Buller 		267
Chapter XI
Church Colonization—The Free Church Colony at Otago—The Canterbury Settlement—Lord Lyttelton—Godley as Superintendent—Felix Wakefield on the Colony—The New Zealand Constitution—Life at Redhill and Reigate—Wakefield leaves England for New Zealand, 		297
Chapter XII
Wakefield in New Zealand—Sir George Grey—The First New Zealand Parliament—Illness and Retirement from Public Life—The Closing Scene—Estimate of His Work and Character, 		336

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