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1839 - 1858
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Western colonialism
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New Zealand Company, (1839–58), British joint-stock company responsible for much of the early settlement of New Zealand. It attempted to colonize in accordance with the theories of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. Formed in 1839 after a parent New Zealand Association failed to receive a royal charter to proceed with the settlement of the still-independent islands, the company sent a land purchase expedition to New Zealand later that year. In 1840 it founded the settlements of Wellington and Nelson and, in 1841, through a subsidiary organization (the Plymouth Company), the settlement of New Plymouth. While the advance group was buying land, Britain ...(100 of 197 words)

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