The Prospect of Global History . Edited by James Belich, John Darwin, Margret Frenz, and Chris Wickham.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xiv+222. $60.00.
December 2017
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4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
The Prospect of Global History
January 2017
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The Black Death and European Expansion
February 2016
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The Prospect of Global History
Introduction
January 2016
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The Prospect of Global History
The Prospect of Global History
January 2016
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Race and the Pacific
January 2014
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Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People
Krieg und transkulturelles Lernen in Neuseeland im 19. Jahrhundert
January 2012
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Waffen Wissen Wandel. Anpassung und Lernen in transkulturellen Erstkonflikten
Exploding Wests: Boom and Bust in Nineteenth-Century Settler Societies
January 2010
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Natural experiments of history
This book consists of eight comparative studies drawn from history, archeology, economics, economic history, geography, and political science.
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A Cultural History of Economics?
January 2010
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Victorian Studies: a journal of the humanities, arts and sciences
A response to three reviews in Review Forum on Replenishing the Earth
How much do institutions matter? Cloning Britain in New Zealand
January 2010
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Exclusionary Empire: English Liberty Overseas 1600 to 1900
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Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution And The Rise Of The Angloworld
August 2009
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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 world's 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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Riders of the whirlwind: Tribal peoples and European settlement booms, 1790s- 1900s
January 2009
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Raupatu: The Confiscation of Maori Land
Settler Utopianism? English Ideologies of Emigration, 1815-1880
June 2008
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Liberty, Authority, Formality: Political Ideas and Culture, 1600-1900