附註:New Zealand author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. I. The Anglo explosion -- 1. Settling societies -- 2. Shaping the Anglo-world -- 3. Exploding wests -- 4. The non Industrial Revolution and the rise of mass transfer -- 5. The settler transition -- 6. Colonizations -- pt. II. Testing wests -- 7. Boom and bust in the old west, 1815-60 -- 8. British wests to 1850 -- 9. Golden wests -- 10. The great midwest -- 11. Melbourne's empire -- 12. Boers, Britons, and the 'Black English' -- 13. Last best wests -- pt. III. Recolonization at large -- 14. Urban carnivores and the great divergence -- 15. The rise and fall of Greater Britain -- 16. The rise and rise of Greater America -- 17. Beyond the Anglo-world -- 18. Adopted dominions? -- Conclusion: Thinking in the rounds.
摘要:This is a 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.
