Replenishing the earth : the settler revolution and the rise of the Anglo-world, 1783-1939 / James Belich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Belich, James, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration.

History.

British--Foreign countries.

Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--History.

Great Britain.

British--Foreign countries--History.

British.

English-speaking countries--Emigration and immigration--History.

English-speaking countries.

Physical Description:

x, 573 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Summary:

Why does so much of the world speak English? Replenishing the Earth gives a new answer to that question. It is a story with such crucial implications for the histories of settler societies, the homelands that spawned them, and the indigenous peoples who resisted them, that their full histories cannot be written without it.

Contents:

Part I The Anglo Explosion

Introduction to Part I 21

1 Settling Societies 25

2 Shaping the Anglo-World 49

3 Exploding Wests 79

4 The Non-Industrial Revolution and the Rise of Mass Transfer 106

5 The Settler Transition 145

6 Colonizations 177

Part II Testing Wests

Introduction to Part II 221

7 Boom and Bust in the Old West, 1815-60 223

8 British Wests to 1850 261

9 Golden Wests 306

10 The Great Midwest 331

11 Melbourne's Empire 356

12 Boers, Britons, and the 'Black English' 373

13 Last Best Wests 393

Part III Recolonization at Large

Introduction to Part III 435

14 Urban Carnivores and the Great Divergence 437

15 The Rise and Fall of Greater Britain 456

16 The Rise and Rise of Greater America 479

17 Beyond the Anglo-World 502

18 Adopted Dominions? 518.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0199297274

9780199297276

OCLC:

318641412