Simon Szreter and Kate Fisher

P d R 3 7 ( 3 ) 5 8 7 the emergence of stable, prosperous, commodity-exporting societies that interacted ever more closely with their metropolitan centers.belich calls this process recolonization, and in the case of the british dominions he gives a plausible account of how the ties between these colonies and the mother Country tightened over time, and how the cultural and economic roles of london created a collective identity of a "Greater britain," the ephemeral nature of its political reality notwithstanding.Similarly, belich's incorporation of the united States into his anglo-world is a bold act of interloping that challenges several hoary chestnuts of american exceptionalism.He is certainly not the first historian to challenge Frederick Jackson turner's "frontier thesis," but his "boom, bust, and recolonization thesis" actually offers a viable alternative.Replenishing the Earth is a big book full of big ideas.Some are more persuasive than others, but anyone interested in nineteenth-century intercontinental migration or the comparative study of settler societies will find this a rewarding, thoughtprovoking treatise

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• Home and Foreign Investment 1870-1913

  A R Prest, A K Cairncross et al.•Economica•1954

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