Description: Replenishing the Earth : The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo-World, 1, Paperback by Belich, James, ISBN 0199604541, ISBN-13 9780199604548, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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, including the sudden rise of mass
transfer across oceans and mountains, a revolutionary upward shift in attitudes to emigration, the emergence of a settler boom mentality, and a late flowering of non-industrial technologies -wind, water, wood, and work animals - especially on settler frontiers. This revolution combined with the
Industrial Revolution to transform settlement into something explosive - capable of creating great cities like Chicago and Melbourne and large socio-economies in a single generation.
When the great settler booms busted, as they always did, a second pattern set in. Links between the Anglo-wests and their metropolises, London and New York, actually tightened as rising tides of staple products flowed one way and ideas the other. This re-colonization re-integrated Greater America
and Greater Britain, bulking them out to become the superpowers of their day. The Settler Revolution was not exclusive to the Anglophone countries - Argentina, Siberia, and Manchuria also experienced it. But it was the Anglophone settlers who managed to integrate frontier and metropolis most
successfully, and it was this that gave them the impetus and the material power to provide the worlds leading super-powers for the last 200 years.
This book will reshape understandings of American, British, and British dominion histories in the long 19th century. It is a story that has 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.
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Book Title: Replenishing the Earth : The Settler Revolution and the Rise of t
Number of Pages: 592 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Replenishing the Earth : the Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: United States / 19th Century, Modern / 19th Century, Europe / Great Britain / General
Publication Year: 2011
Item Height: 1.8 in
Item Weight: 30.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: James Belich
Subject Area: History
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
