Table of Contents
List of Maps xi
Abbreviations xii
Introduction I
Part I The Anglo Explosion
Introduction to Part I 21
1 Settling Societies 25
2 Shaping the Anglo-World 49
3 Exploding Wests 79
4 The Non-Industrial Revolution and the Rise of Mass Transfer 106
5 The Settler Transition 145
6 Colonizations 177
Part II Testing Wests
Introduction to Part II 221
7 Boom and Bust in the Old West, 1815-60 223
8 British Wests to 1850 261
9 Golden Wests 306
10 The Great Midwest 331
11 Melbourne's Empire 356
12 Boers, Britons, and the 'Black English' 373
13 Last Best Wests 393
Part III Recolonization at Large
Introduction to Part III 435
14 Urban Carnivores and the Great Divergence 437
15 The Rise and Fall of Greater Britain 456
16 The Rise and Rise of Greater America 479
17 Beyond the Anglo-World 502
18 Adopted Dominions? 518
Conclusion: Thinking in the Rounds 548
Index 561