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    1968 ££. “Th Epps oF Tae =SAaetH ” 5 Ecological Imperialis The Overseas Migration of Western Europeans as a Biological Phenomenon Alfred W. Crosby Sie tc wel seiner ces ete ‘rake ember offs ow ‘Stor Lignan, The Response ol nee tun led Sone” Heath ad Dann Ta Sone Evnoreans 1 Nonris AMERICA, speci those with am amerest i {dering and orany, are ofenseiken sith fs of homesickness the Sigh of crim plans which like themselves, have somehow stayed thousinds of males eatwand across the Alans Vadis Nabokov, the Rosin exile, had sich an experience on the mountain slopes of Oregons anon, For pone? (Gato, mnths oe) -Acenary carer the sucos of European weedin America mpiced Charles Darwin to goad the Amen botanist Ass Gea “Docs i ot burt yout ‘Yankee pide that we trash you so confoundly? am sare Ms. Geay ill sick up for your own weeds, Ask her whether hy A nt ore hoes, downniph god sore of weeds" “The common dandstion, Por di pare depicts ubiquity and ts bight ell owe, nea all the mon wuble ofthe OL! World migrant in North Americ. Viadimie Nabokow was a prime esampl of the mon vble Und the Homo saplens of Earopean npn. Eunpeans and thee descen Alfred W. Crosby dans who compe the majority of human beings in North America snd numberof other lands outside of Europe, are the most spectacualy ‘accra overseas gents ofall ne, How sange is to tnd Engh ‘men, Germany, Frenchmen, Hala, and Spaniards omforably ensconced ‘plats with names like Wollongong Ansa), Rorora (New Zealand, ahd Saskatoon (Canada, where obwowsly ter peoples should dominate, they must have tone te, ‘ane fthe major genet groupings of humankind iss day dished shout the world as Easopean eapeclly ween Earopeat, wines Alot silthe peoples we call Mongols live im the single comtigus land mass af ‘Asn Hlsc Aincans ate dvided beoween thee coninents= thei homeland fied Nort and Sous Ameria ~ but rat of them are concentrated in het ‘Shipinal aiads, the topics, acing each ther acoss one ocean European sees wer alleen concentrate in Europe, bun the le ew centres ave burst ot, as energy asf from 2 barhng building, and have ‘rested vat selects of thelr Kind in the South Temperate Zope tnd ‘Nonth Temperate Zone excep Asia a continent already throught aed treverbly tenanted). In Canada andthe Unted States together they mount to nery 90 perce ofthe population; in Argentina and Uragy together to over 95 perent in Ausas wo percent snd i New Zeal tego percent. The only nations inthe Temperate Zones ouade of Asia ‘hich do nr ave enormous majorities of European whites are Chile wth 2 population af two-thinds mixed Spanish and Indian sock, and South ‘ba, wher blaks outnumber whites six to one. How odd ht tes 0, somany thousands of mes rom Europ, shouldbe exepions i nt bing ‘predominantly pure Earopean European have conquered Canad, the United States, Argentina, Unt ‘ay, Australia, and New Zealand nt jst mtr and economical apd technologically ~ as they did Toda, Nigena, Mexico, Peo, and ove tropical lands, whose nave people have long since expelled or inebred trih and ves abvorbed the tveders, bn the Temperate Zone lands ited {hove Europeans conquered and wamphel demography. These, for be Sake of conveniene, we wil eal the Lands ofthe Demographic Takeoree “There ita long adiaon of emphasizing the const berween Europeans and Americans a taition honored by such names as Henry James and Frederick Jackson Turner ~ but the ital question sr ealy why Americans are so European And why she Argentinian, the Urge Austr lan, andthe New Zealanders are so European in the obvious genetic sense The eas foe he eatin fae ofthe European demoyrapbie takeover in the ropes are clean topical Alc, unl eee, European ded Ecological Imperialism roves fhe fevers in rpicl America they diedalmos a fat ofthese Gdewen plus ow nave American additions, Furthermore, ia nether fepon dd Easopean agricul echoigucs,ecp, and animale pomp Etopeans di ty to found colonies for seement, ater than merely taploation bu they faled or actoved only paral aucesin the hot and. ‘TeScots letter bones ss momumea to ther shelved colony a Daren a the tarn ofthe eighteenth century. The Englch Purtane who skipped [Massachusetts Bay Colony to gow Providence Mand nthe Caribbean Sea {not cven achieve» permanent setdement uch ss a Commonwealth af (Gal The Porguese who went to northeastern Beal tested viable set ‘nets, but only by perching themes ontop of int 3 population of fave Indian laborers and then, when thee Fed away,» population of Inborersimpored from Aes. They aid achieve Jemograpie akeover, beronly by eerbreding wth he servants. The Portuguese Angola, who helped spp shove servants, acver hada breath ofa chance o achieve 2 demographic keover There war ich 0 repel leva seat the mass ‘of Europeans to te trope and ao they stayed Tome o went othe andr rere washes, abr more revarding, abt whete white migrant, Bybee very number, encouraged more imiigrzion. che cook lands te clams ofthe Demopraph. Takconer, Europeans achieved very rapa popalason growth by mans of immigration, by iSeesed lie span, and by maintaining very gh bitbrstes. Rarely bas fepulation expanded more rap than i dal sp the eihtenth and Sinreenth centuries io these Inds I hae lands especially the United Sexes, that enabled Encopenns and ther overs ofepeing to expand fom temching like 18 percent ofthe human specie in reso t0 well ver 3 fret in 1900. Telay 670 millon Earopean lve sn Europe, and 2$0 {lb oes other European genesaly as Europea as ay lee behind {ithe Old Worl! lve the Lands of the Demographic Takeover, an ocean fr Irom home What the Europeans have done with unprecedented ice" tn tn Sore ann amare ‘Be au ed Sine ane Seel Ran Ne i ao eh ss Sa ee reeset ce ae i aa Notas Ba amen Hl Ree ETERS sae mana Alfred W. Crosby succes in he past ew cers cn assay be dese by ee oa ‘oscar Tay hve swarmed "Tey seamed olan ich wee papell a the tne of Eropesa sca by peopl spy capable of tap nee he Europes ‘yet owl ers tt omc ior than is ppaltins. Ths popaaton exis song cl Etropeat of the fst ew cntunesctnaed with popalsneg thes among the aborigines I ovenee Eucpean hae hier ben o ‘tats and im than he waves Europe bcs they ae ‘eovedthe histone the natn ey select. When ete oe iis world voyage onthe Beagle inthe son Chak Daring as bolopt tute than shorn, ete, "Whee he Enopen histo de ‘Soo pre srg ‘yee hay hich ates to expan he Earopeans' dene papi eamphs hast roe espanol tet we enn Theft decimaon sn denoralaae fhe bora pops Canad the United Sar, Ageing, tnd hr Te eterna ‘thee popalatons was no singly due tw Ewopean echnaog ‘pei Te Europeans who stn emperate Seth Alcs nooo ha the same advange st he mb sted in Vigna an New soe ‘Wales and yt how dren wa het: The Rontespeing peo who ow orewheingy ommanber the wh in South A my Spero to he Amen, Aasen, nd New Zelnd counter thi thy posse iron wep bat ow mh ee ono et fr lee stone pointed aes shan on tn-ped spent? The Bats ‘ive poseed demoprapely wor cone fe numb se ae fre coma ih why which were probaly ot peter pe sare ee than those ofthe Inns eat of he Msp Rv Rates Bass hve prospered because they soved miry cones svolel te cengucor or bce the indopenile evan and esos Sct eed nr ha the whi nears, why de the ais ofthe Lando hc Demographic Takeover sures Second, we mst explain se stinger secon icf Euopen agra tat be European way f manpage oro {he Lands of the Demogrphe Taker The Seal pore of he Eropean ones in he Sra also the Bran serge he South Alan eld comes sharply wit sey slat aid svn a Noch Ame Of ete pn Neh Ame el ete ae

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