Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld

Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld
ISBN-10
0199604541
ISBN-13
9780199604548
Category
History
Pages
592
Language
English
Published
2011-05-05
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
James Belich

Description

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. This book will reshape understandings of American, British, and British dominionhistories 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 theirfull histories cannot be written without it.

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