Raymond E Dumett

Gentlemanly Capitalism and British Imperialism

The New Debate on Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume reviews recent scholarship in the field of the theory of "gentlemanly capitalism" - the complex of economic, social and political power centering on the City of London - which historians have developed to explain Britain's imperial expansion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pearson Education Limited
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9780582327825
• ISBN-10: 0582327822
• Artikelnr.: 39293114

Autorenporträt

Raymond E. Dumett

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Exploring the Cain/Hopkins Paradigm, Issues for Debate;
Critique and Topics for New Research. 2. Gentlemanly Capitalism and British
Economic Policy, 1880-1914, The Debate Over Bimetallism and Protectionism.
3. Profit and Power: Informal Empire, the Navy and Latin America. 4. The
Late Nineteenth Century Imperialist: Specification, Quantification and
Controlled Conjectures. 5. Economic Power at the Periphery: Canada,
Australia and South Africa 1850-1914. 6. Imperial Economic Controls Through
Sterling in the Twentieth Century. 7. British Informal Empire in the Far
East 1880-1939: A Japanese Perspective. 8. Gentlemanly Capitalism and the
Raj: British Policy in India Between the World Wars. 9. Gentlemanly
Capitalism and Empire in the Twentieth Century: the Forgotten Case of
Malaya. 10. The Theory and Practice of British Imperialism.