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
James Belich is professor of history at the Stout Research Centre,
Victoria University of Wellington. He previously held the inaugural
Keith Sinclair Chair in History at the University of Auckland, and
has held visiting positions at Cambridge, Melbourne, and Georgetown
Universities. His earlier books, all award-winners, include a two
volume general history of New Zealand, Making Peoples and Paradise
Reforged, and The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian
Interpretation of Racial Conflict, winner of the Trevor Reese Prize
for an outstanding work of imperial or commonwealth history
published in the preceding two years.
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