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Replenishing the earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld

This book of 557 pages, written over 8 years, half on research professorships, presents a new theory about 19th century expansion, tested against 24 regional cases in ten countries. It required fundamental reappraisals in several disciplines, engagement with much specialist scholarship; plus primary research, including analysis of numerous emigration guides published 1815-40 and the tracing of conceptual change through digital databases. Indications of scale from academic reviews include: ‘a book of magnificent scale and range of scholarship’; ‘a vast and vastly interesting book’; ‘the biggest, boldest, most truly global and potentially most contentious of these renewed "British World" histories’.