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Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld
James Belich
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Description for Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 592 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1QDB; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 45. Weight in Grams: 864.
Why are we speaking English? Replenishing the Earth gives a new answer to that question, uncovering a 'settler revolution' that took place from the early nineteenth century that led to the explosive settlement of the American West and its forgotten twin, the British West, comprising the settler dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Between 1780 and 1930 the number of English-speakers rocketed from 12 million in 1780 to 200 million, and their wealth and power grew to match. Their secret was not racial, or cultural, or institutional superiority but a resonant intersection of historical changes, ... Read more
Why are we speaking English? Replenishing the Earth gives a new answer to that question, uncovering a 'settler revolution' that took place from the early nineteenth century that led to the explosive settlement of the American West and its forgotten twin, the British West, comprising the settler dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Between 1780 and 1930 the number of English-speakers rocketed from 12 million in 1780 to 200 million, and their wealth and power grew to match. Their secret was not racial, or cultural, or institutional superiority but a resonant intersection of historical changes, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
592
Condition
New
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199604548
SKU
V9780199604548
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99-17
About James Belich
James Belich is professor of history at the Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington. He previously held the inaugural Keith Sinclair Chair in History at the University of Auckland, and has held visiting positions at Cambridge, Melbourne, and Georgetown Universities. His earlier books, all award-winners, include a two volume general history of New Zealand, Making Peoples and Paradise Reforged, ... Read more
Reviews for Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld
Astonishing... The book I read this year that will undoubtedly stick in my mind the longest.
Peter Mandler, History Today.
A wonderfully stimulating revisionist account... Provides both rich context and new perspectives for all those interested in understanding the global diaspora of the Scots in recent centuries.
Professor Tom Devine, The Glasgow Herald.
original and intelligent ... Read more
Peter Mandler, History Today.
A wonderfully stimulating revisionist account... Provides both rich context and new perspectives for all those interested in understanding the global diaspora of the Scots in recent centuries.
Professor Tom Devine, The Glasgow Herald.
original and intelligent ... Read more