The Evolution of Modernization in Social Science

In your book you talk about how it's sort of a form of modernization theory which sometimes gets a bad rap today. As states develop they can no longer get people to move to frontier areas with the promise of free land. Indonesia successfully settled West Papua the Western half of New Guinea by opening up land there. Australia tried to do the same thing but couldn't get white people to move there because it was too developed. And that ultimately forced Australia to confront basically this crisis it can't whiten Melanesia.