Replenishing the Earth

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.

(Oxford)

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Australian Journal of Politics and History [A] vast and vastly interesting book.

Stephen Howe, The Independent Replenishing the Earth is the biggest, boldest, most truly global [of the] "British World" histories. Book of the week.

Bernard Porter, Times Literary Supplement This is one of the most important works on the broad processes of modern world history to have appeared for years - arguably since Sir Charles Dilke's pioneering Greater Britain introduced a concept very like Belich's "Anglo-world" to his Victorian contemporaries in 1868

Eric Richards, Reviews in History Replenishing the Earth possesses grandeur of vision. It is written with great gusto in a vigorous quest for explanations of vital phenomena. It is exhilarating and provocative reading and grapples with central historical questions at a structural level which leaves this reader cheering its sheer bravado.

Donald MacRaild, Times Higher Education Supplement Original and intelligent...this book offers a novel explanation of the rise of the Anglo-world... Whatever the future holds, their past is compellingly told here.

CHOICE A provocative, empirically sound reexamination of the expansion of the English-speaking world in the late 19th century.

World History Bulletin A comprehensive survey of and challenge to the immense historiography on Anglophone settler expansions of the long nineteenth century...Teachers will find Replenishing the Earth a rich and provocative source at all collegiate levels...A goldmine for the particulars of growth and expansion.

American Historical Review Useful not just for scholars comparing settler societies but for everyone working on nineteenth-century North America or Australasia...an impressive contribution both to settler history and to world history.

Peter A. Coclanis, Journal of Interdisciplinary History Comprehensive, highly original...and always fascinating account of Greater Britains will to power, with which account scholars perforce will grapple for years to come.

Jared Diamond, UCLA, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of the best-sellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse A great contribution to large-scale history: constantly sparkling in its style, humorous, and offering profound new insights. A magnificent book.

Carl J. Guarneri, Journal of Diplomatic History Argued with wit and vigor, this ambitious book makes a provocative, multilayered contribution to comparative and transnational history.

(Oxford)

Introduction; PART I: SHAPING THE ANGLO-WORLD; 1. Settling Societies; 2. The Founding Rupture; 3. Exploding Wests; PART II: THE SETTLER REVOLUTION; 4. The Rise of Mass Transfer; 5. The Rise of the Settler; 6. Colonizations; PART III: TESTING WESTS; 7. The American West, 1815-60; 8. The British West; 9. Golden Wests?; 10. Urban Wests; 11. Last Best Wests; PART IV: BEYOND THE ANGLO-WESTS; 12. Re-colonization and the Urban Carnivore; 13. Beyond the Anglo-World; 14. Thinking in the Rounds; Bibliography; Notes; Index

(Oxford)