Replenishing the Earth
The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld
James Belich
Reviews and Awards
"Belich's well-paced, vivid writing style makes what might otherwise be a dry analysis of figures gleaned from secondary sources quite digestible....There is much here to interest historians of the West and historians of comparative and transnational settler societies generally. Belich's revisioning of the British settler colonies as the British West and his persuasively argued case for a dynamic between metropole and colony, in which the settler society was the active agent, make his most recent book an important contribution to the field."--The Western Historical Quarterly
"A fascinating and accessible volume...Replenishing the Earth is a rewarding book that enables readers to re-situate and reconsider stories of settlement and expansion that they might think they already know well."--The Annals of Iowa
"A great contribution to large-scale history: constantly sparkling in its style, humorous, and offering profound new insights. A magnificent book."--Jared Diamond, UCLA Pulitzer-Prize winning author of the best sellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse
"A provocative, empirically sound reexamination of the expansion of the English-speaking world in the late 19th century."--CHOICE
"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."--World History Bulletin
"Useful not just for scholars comparing settler societies but for everyone working on nineteenth-century North America or Australasia...[A]n impressive contribution both to settler history and to world history."--American Historical Review
"[A] comprehensive, highly original, largely convincing, and always fascinating account of Greater Britain's will to power, with which account scholars perforce will grapple for years to come."--Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"Belich has provided a bracing revisionist view of Britain's formal and informal nineteenth-century empire, one that should engage specialists and generalists alike....Argued with wit and vigor, this ambitious book makes a provocative, multilayered contribution to comparative and transnational history."--Diplomatic History