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ISBN: 0198216823 Year: 1973 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon
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ISBN: 0199297274 9780199297276 Year: 2009 Publisher: Oxford: Oxford university press,
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Why does so much of the world speak English? This book gives a new answer to that question, uncovering a ‘Settler Revolution’ that took place from the early 19th 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. 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.
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ISBN: 0706405684 Year: 1976 Publisher: London : Heinemann,
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Year: 1962 Publisher: Boston (Mass.) : Heath,
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ISBN: 0435295713 9780435295714 Year: 1970 Publisher: London: Heinemann,
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ISBN: 1101633786 Year: 1985 Publisher: New York : Plume,
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ISBN: 8381369983 Year: 2018 Publisher: Warszawa, Poland : Ktoczyta.pl,
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ISBN: 838136888X Year: 2018 Publisher: Warszawa, Poland : Ktoczyta.pl,
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ISBN: 8381363128 Year: 2018 Publisher: Warszawa, Poland : Ktoczyta.pl,
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ISBN: 0723000018 9780723000013 Year: 1968 Publisher: London: Times newspapers,
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