Wakefield system of colonization
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The Wakefield system of colonization was a 19th-century British colonial theory that promoted the sale of land at a “sufficient price” to finance emigration and create structured, class-based settler societies.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
colonial theory
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land settlement scheme ⓘ settler colonial model ⓘ |
| aimedAt |
creating compact settlements
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financing emigration through land sales ⓘ maintaining a stable wage-earning labor force ⓘ preventing laborers from becoming immediate landowners ⓘ replicating British social structure in colonies ⓘ |
| appliedIn |
Canada
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New Zealand NERFINISHED ⓘ South Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appliesToPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticizedFor |
entrenching class inequality in colonies
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ignoring Indigenous land rights ⓘ overestimating the effectiveness of price controls on land ⓘ treating land purely as a commodity ⓘ |
| describedIn |
A Letter from Sydney
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The Art of Colonization NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developer | Edward Gibbon Wakefield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
assisted emigration
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class-based society ⓘ concentration of settlement ⓘ land fund ⓘ regulated land price ⓘ sale of public land ⓘ sufficient price ⓘ systematic colonization ⓘ |
| hasGoal |
economic self-sufficiency of colonies
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orderly colonization ⓘ reduction of poverty and overpopulation in Britain ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced | later analyses of settler colonialism ⓘ |
| hasKeyMechanism |
controlling land availability to workers
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planning town and rural settlement patterns ⓘ selling crown land at a sufficient price ⓘ using land revenue to subsidize immigrant passages ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
19th-century settler colonialism
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British Empire expansion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1830s ⓘ |
| influenced |
Canterbury Association settlements
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New Zealand Company settlement schemes NERFINISHED ⓘ Otago settlement in New Zealand NERFINISHED ⓘ colonial land policy debates in Britain ⓘ colonization of South Australia ⓘ |
| mainProponent | Edward Gibbon Wakefield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theoreticalBasis |
Malthusian population theory
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classical political economy ⓘ |
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