British Economists And The Empire

Author : John Cunningham Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315316949

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British Economists and the Empire by John Cunningham Wood Pdf

This study, first published in 1983, is primarily concerned with what the British economists over the period 1860 to 1914 wrote on a range of economic and non-economic aspects of the British Empire, and the reasons for their conclusions. The attempt is also made to correct the view that mainstream British economists after 1860 were antithetical to the concept of empire. This title will be of interest to students of economic thought.

Author : Lance Edwin Davis,Robert A. Huttenback
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1988-06-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521357233

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Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire Abridged Edition by Lance Edwin Davis,Robert A. Huttenback Pdf

Historians have so far made few attempts to assess directly the costs and benefits of Britain's investment in empire. This book presents answers to some of the key questions about the economics of imperialism: how large was the flow of finance to the empire? How great were the profits on empire investment? What were the social costs of maintaining the empire? Who received the profits, and who bore the costs? The authors show that colonial finance did not dominate British capital markets; returns from empire investment were not high in comparison to earnings in the domestic and foreign sectors; there is no evidence of continued exploitative profits; and empire profits were earned at a substantial cost to the taxpayer. They depict British imperialism as a mechanism to effect an income transfer from the tax-paying middle class to the elites in which the ownership of imperial enterprise was heavily concentrated, with some slight net transfer to the colonies in the process.

Author : Ian M. Drummond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136607158

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British Economic Policy and Empire, 1919-1939 by Ian M. Drummond Pdf

First Published in 2005. This volume looks at the period of 1919 to 1939 in British economic policy and the Empire, including documents on imperial policy.

Author : Ewen Green
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0415194679

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The Ideals of Empire by Ewen Green Pdf

Author : David Kenneth Fieldhouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015008865498

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Economics and Empire, 1830-1914 by David Kenneth Fieldhouse Pdf

Author : Gary B. Magee,Andrew S. Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139487672

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Empire and Globalisation by Gary B. Magee,Andrew S. Thompson Pdf

Focusing on the great population movement of British emigrants before 1914, this book provides a perspective on the relationship between empire and globalisation. It shows how distinct structures of economic opportunity developed around the people who settled across a wider British World through the co-ethnic networks they created. Yet these networks could also limit and distort economic growth. The powerful appeal of ethnic identification often made trade and investment with racial 'outsiders' less appealing, thereby skewing economic activities toward communities perceived to be 'British'. By highlighting the importance of these networks to migration, finance and trade, this book contributes to debates about globalisation in the past and present. It reveals how the networks upon which the era of modern globalisation was built quickly turned in on themselves after 1918, converting racial, ethnic and class tensions into protectionism, nationalism and xenophobia. Avoiding such an outcome is a challenge faced today.

Author : Nancy F. Koehn
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501731709

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The Power of Commerce by Nancy F. Koehn Pdf

What price do states pay for becoming and remaining world powers? Why did the first greatly expanded British Empire collapse so rapidly? Nancy F. Koehn here recounts the urgent challenges that confronted the British in the ten-year period following their overwhelming victory in the Seven Years War.

Author : G. Krozewski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781403919601

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Money and the End of Empire by G. Krozewski Pdf

This book presents a penetrating new analysis of the end of the empire, located at the intersection of politics, economy and society in Britain and the colonies. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, when political control was feasible, discriminatory management of the colonies sustained Britain's postwar recovery. But synergy turned into conflict as Britain moved towards economic liberalization and financial cosmopolitanism, and found it increasingly difficult to reconcile established relations with emerging priorities. Based on a wide range of archival and other sources, this study relates political and economic developments in Britain and the colonies in original ways to overcome the gulf between peripheralist and Euro-centric explanations of postwar British imperial relations, and helps redress the neglect of the empire in modern international history. Money and the End of Empire will nourish debates in British and international economic and political history and is essential reading for historians of Britain and the empire.

Author : William G. Hynes
Publisher : London : Longman
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035751275

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The Economics of Empire by William G. Hynes Pdf

Author : Joseph Shield Nicholson
Publisher : London, Macmillan
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCAL:B3731090

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A Project of Empire by Joseph Shield Nicholson Pdf

Author : M. J. Bonn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351799034

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The Crumbling of Empire by M. J. Bonn Pdf

This book concerns the end of the age of colonization and the inherent changes in the world economy. It discusses the author’s perception of the disintegration of free trade and ideas on the solution of federation. Starting with an introduction to economic thought and history the author then presents the state of the world at the time of writing in terms of colonies and dependencies and looks at economic nationalism and economic separatism. This discursive text is an important account of the global economic issues of the early twentieth century by one of the most well-known economists of the age who became a foremost expert in international financial affairs.

Author : William Graham,Filippo Ugolini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000696714

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Free Trade and the Empire by William Graham,Filippo Ugolini Pdf

Originally published in 1904. The chief object of this pamphlet is to set forth, in a connected form, the main aspects of the great tariff controversy now for some time before the public; to treat the question more deeply and fully than the exigencies of the platform usually allow; and at the same time to treat it, as far as may be, from a scientific and as little as possible from a party point of view. The question is one both of economics and politics, and it raises the most important and delicate and complicated issues in both subjects.

Author : John Darwin
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781846146718

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Unfinished Empire by John Darwin Pdf

A both controversial and comprehensive historical analysis of how the British Empire worked, from Wolfson Prize-winning author and historian John Darwin The British Empire shaped the world in countless ways: repopulating continents, carving out nations, imposing its own language, technology and values. For perhaps two centuries its expansion and final collapse were the single largest determinant of historical events, and it remains surrounded by myth, misconception and controversy today. John Darwin's provocative and richly enjoyable book shows how diverse, contradictory and in many ways chaotic the British Empire really was, controlled by interests that were often at loggerheads, and as much driven on by others' weaknesses as by its own strength.

Author : Ian M. Drummond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:150344224

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British Economic Policy and the Empire 1919-1939 by Ian M. Drummond Pdf

Author : C. Read
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230297074

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The Rise and Fall of an Economic Empire by C. Read Pdf

We have seen many empires come and go. From the Roman Empire to the British Empire, we are now witnessing the decline of the US as a superpower. How do economic innovations foster global economic dominance, and how does the natural evolution of an economic empire eventually bring about its demise and replacement by other economic superpowers?