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Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld, 1783-1939 ReviewWith "Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo-World, 1783-1939", James Belich emboldens his reputation as New Zealand's leading historian. After 25 years of deeply researching and presenting/re-presenting the emergence of Aotearoa New Zealand and its people, indigenous and colonial, and the relationships and politics of each, he turns his narrative towards the rise of the Anglo-World. He combines a grand sweep with meticulous research and a novelist's eye for lateral detail.Belich was so successful at challenging received historical wisdom in his first book, "The New Zealand Wars" (1987) that his radical take on the 19th century conflict between the British and the Maori has become today's orthodoxy. However, Belich is not a revisionist for the sake of political correctness or provocation. "The New Zealand Wars", in which he awarded a number of pivotal battles to Maori tribes for the first time in (literally) recorded history, was first and foremost a towering feat of historical research.
Belich is a writer who does not allow the density of the subject matter to heavy his prose. This is his thesis: European settlement of the New World came in three successive waves - networks (especially of trade), empire (through conquest), and settlement; that it amounted to a `settler revolution', characterized by the spectacular growth of Anglophone peoples and culture across the globe; and that the settlers themselves were neither heroic nor especially villainous. Belich spells out how British world colonization involved four phases - incremental, explosive, decolonization, and recolonization - each shaped by identifiable social, political and economic forces. He brings forth as persuasive evidence the stories of four famed cities - New York, London, Chicago and Melbourne. (If Melbourne seems out of place, it shouldn't -- as Belich points out, Melbourne in 1890 was a mega-city, boasting a population greater than Madrid and Mexico City and, by a factor of nine, Los Angeles).
His story weaves together strands that are simultaneously riveting on their own and compelling as a whole. In his book "Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders, from Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth Century" Belich is at his most compelling when describing the 'protein boom' which saw Maori society grow from three figures to four then five ("Hunters & Gardeners"). (All evolutionary biologists and macroeconomists should study his story technique). In "Replenishing the Earth" Belich stretches this treatment over four great cities and the context of their nations and the world at the time. You might call this "busting out theory" and indeed you could credit Belich as a historian who is "busting out" - reimagining, transforming, reforging.
"Replenishing the Earth" is a tour de force. Belich is well known to New Zealanders as an author and television presenter. He gets standing ovations from his students, and storied prizes from academia in Great Britain. With this wide-angled and keenly-edged book, international audiences who need to know their history will enthrall at discovering a historian and writer at the peak of his investigative power and creativity.
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