New Zealand Company ships
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new-zealand-company-ships-185-11875865
title:
New Zealand Company ships
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The New Zealand Company was a 19th-century English company that played a key role in the colonisation of New Zealand. The company was formed to carry out the principles of systematic colonisation devised by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, who envisaged the creation of a new-model English society in the southern hemisphere. Under Wakefield's model, the colony would attract capitalists who would then have a ready supply of labour—migrant labourers who could not initially afford to be property owners, but
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Company_ships
date created:
2017-07-06T02:41:51Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T17:45:32Z
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