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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Modern and multidisciplinary. . . .
Settling for Less provides the most comprehensive analysis of settler colonialism."
---Kyosuke Kikuta, The Developing Economies"Prodigious research and presentation." * Choice *
"McNamee’s book is mandatory reading for scholars interested in both the causes and consequences of colonization. . . . Charles Tilly once warned us not to crow too loudly about the death of empires. But Lachlan McNamee’s excellent, accessible, and well-written book has given us reason to crow. Slowly but surely, the structural force of modernization works against the strategic goals of empire."
---Jacob Gerner, Perspectives on Politics"McNamee asks big questions, constructs an original and provocative theory, unearths previously unused, indeed, unknown data, and compiles persuasive evidence to support his hypotheses . . .
Settling for Less is an extraordinary first book of the sort to which authors aspire."
---David A. Lake, Political Science Quarterly
