Replenishing the Earth : The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo-world, 1783-1939.

By: Belich, JamesMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (586 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780191559235Subject(s): British -- Foreign countries -- History | English-speaking countries -- Emigration and immigration -- History | Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Replenishing the Earth : The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo-world, 1783-1939DDC classification: 909 LOC classification: JV1011.B58 2009Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I. The Anglo Explosion -- Introduction to Part I -- 1. Settling Societies -- 2. Shaping the Anglo-World -- 3. Exploding Wests -- 4. The Non-Industrial Revolution and the Rise of Mass Transfer -- 5. The Settler Transition -- 6. Colonizations -- PART II. Testing Wests -- Introduction to Part II -- 7. Boom and Bust in the Old West, 1815-60 -- 8. British Wests to 1850 -- 9. Golden Wests -- 10. The Great Midwest -- 11. Melbourne's Empire -- 12. Boers, Britons, and the 'Black English' -- 13. Last Best Wests -- PART III. Recolonization at Large -- Introduction to Part III -- 14. Urban Carnivores and the Great Divergence -- 15. The Rise and Fall of Greater Britain -- 16. The Rise and Rise of Greater America -- 17. Beyond the Anglo-World -- 18. Adopted Dominions? -- Conclusion: Thinking in the Rounds -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Pioneering study of the anglophone 'settler boom' in North America, Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand between the early 19th and early 20th centuries, looking at what made it the most successful of all such settler revolutions, and how this laid the basis of British and American power in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I. The Anglo Explosion -- Introduction to Part I -- 1. Settling Societies -- 2. Shaping the Anglo-World -- 3. Exploding Wests -- 4. The Non-Industrial Revolution and the Rise of Mass Transfer -- 5. The Settler Transition -- 6. Colonizations -- PART II. Testing Wests -- Introduction to Part II -- 7. Boom and Bust in the Old West, 1815-60 -- 8. British Wests to 1850 -- 9. Golden Wests -- 10. The Great Midwest -- 11. Melbourne's Empire -- 12. Boers, Britons, and the 'Black English' -- 13. Last Best Wests -- PART III. Recolonization at Large -- Introduction to Part III -- 14. Urban Carnivores and the Great Divergence -- 15. The Rise and Fall of Greater Britain -- 16. The Rise and Rise of Greater America -- 17. Beyond the Anglo-World -- 18. Adopted Dominions? -- Conclusion: Thinking in the Rounds -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Pioneering study of the anglophone 'settler boom' in North America, Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand between the early 19th and early 20th centuries, looking at what made it the most successful of all such settler revolutions, and how this laid the basis of British and American power in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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