@booklet {9734, title = {A Letter from Sydney, the Principal Town of Australasia. Together with the Outline of a System of colonization}, year = {1829}, month = {1829}, pages = {222 pp. plus a foldout map and an {\textquotedblleft}Appendix. Outline of a System of Colonization{\textquotedblright} separately paged as i-xxiv}, publisher = {Joseph Cross/Simpkin and Marshall/Effingham Wilson}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Some damning of the settlement process, particularly convict labor and the quality of some of the other immigrants. Shows the difficulty of working the land. Objections to the provincialism of the politics. But he sees Australia with a positive future, an \“extension of Britain\” that could be settled by young men and women, sent in equal numbers, which would reduce what he saw as the too-rapid growth of the population in Britain. Treated as a eutopia in Matthew Graves and Elizabeth Rechniewski. \“Essays for an Empty Land: Australia as Political Utopia.\” Cultures of the Commonwealth 17 (Winter 2010-2011): 37-51.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {[Edward Gibbon] [Wakefield] (1796-1862)}, editor = {Robert Gouger Editor} }