Sentence:  This informal <WSD>settlerism</WSD> echoed some elements of a well-known English folk Utopianism: 'a vision, let us call it "Merrie England", in which squire, parson and people were locked together in an embrace of authority, deference and mutual dependency.' 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An ideology extolling the virtues bettering oneself by becoming a settler in an undeveloped new country.