Cecilia Morgan is Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. She is the author of Commemorating Canada: History, Heritage, and Memory, 1850–1990s (2016), as well as Creating Colonial Pasts: History, Memory, and Commemoration in Southern Ontario, 1860–1980 (2015).

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Maps Introduction: Better Britains?: Settler Societies Within the British Empire 1783–1920 1. Colonial Frontiers and Contact Zones: Indigenous Peoples and Settler Encounters 2. "Peopling," Settling, and Governing 3. Settler Economies: Local Contexts and Imperial Networks 4. Creating Civil Society 5. Creating Settler Identities Conclusion: Better Britains? Select Bibliography Index

‘A useful addition to the growing field of settler colonialism, this book is an excellent introduction to the topic… Highly recommended.’ - C.V. Reed (Choice Magazine vol 55:02:2017) ‘The text is incredibly timely… Morgan successfully uncovers the complexities of the British world colonial encounter… Future historians can now build upon the platform and further broach questions of interaction between settler societies, and whether settles societies were really better Britains.’- Katie Pickles (Canadian Historical Review vol 99:01:2018) "Building Better Britains? Is a well-crafted and necessary study of the complexities of emergent settler polities in the nineteenth century…This book will be a welcome addition to those teaching or studying the complicated histories of settler colonialism or nineteenth-century British imperialism."- T.J. Tallie (Victorian Studies, Indiana University-vol 60.2 Winter 2018) "[Building Better Britians?] is the most ambitious volume in the series, in terms of both its geographical and its chronological reach."- Phillip Buckner, University of New Brunswick (British Journal of Canadian Studies, vol 31 no 1)