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Author : A.N. Porter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136611355
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Money, Finance and Empire written by A.N. Porter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was first published in 1985.
Author : Andrew N. Porter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415286190
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Money, Finance and Empire written by Andrew N. Porter and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. F Holland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136284273
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Money, Finance, and Empire, 1790-1960 written by R. F Holland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have recently begun to pay renewed attention to the economics of empire, focusing in particular on the requirements of metropolitan Britain's economy and on the activities of imperial businesses. Within this broad field, financial questions, not least the subject of investment overseas or the 'export of capital', have long had a prominent place, and have been equally affected by the development of new appraoches. The consensus as to the volume and direction of Britain's overseas investments is being vigorously challenged. Technological advances have encouraged on a greatly enlarged scale the compilation and analysis of information about British investments and shareholdings abroad. The gradual easing of restrictions on business records has increased facilities for the study, especially, of imperial and colonial banking. Work on the financial policies of central governments is revealing much of interest to students of twentieth-century colonial rule and decolonization. This collection of essays brings together a selection of the latest research on these and other themes, and, for comparative purposes, includes examples of recent continental work.
Author : Youssef Cassis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521893732
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (937 download)
Download or read book Finance and Financiers in European History 1880-1960 written by Youssef Cassis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly distinguished team of contributors addresses the complex and crucial role of finance in European history during the period 1880-1960.
Author : James MacDonald
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691126326
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (263 download)
Download or read book A Free Nation Deep in Debt written by James MacDonald and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-22 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the greater part of recorded history the most successful and powerful states were autocracies; yet now the world is increasingly dominated by democracies. In A Free Nation Deep in Debt, James Macdonald provides a novel answer for how and why this political transformation occurred. The pressures of war finance led ancient states to store up treasure; and treasure accumulation invariably favored autocratic states. But when the art of public borrowing was developed by the city-states of medieval Italy as a democratic alternative to the treasure chest, the balance of power tipped. From that point on, the pressures of war favored states with the greatest public creditworthiness; and the most creditworthy states were invariably those in which the people who provided the money also controlled the government. Democracy had found a secret weapon and the era of the citizen creditor was born. Macdonald unfolds this tale in a sweeping history that starts in biblical times, passes via medieval Italy to the wars and revolutions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and ends with the great bond drives that financed the two world wars.
Author : G. Balachandran
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136790578
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book John Bullion's Empire written by G. Balachandran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the impact of Britain's economic and financial crises on currency and monetary policy-making in India between the wars, analysing colonial policies during Anglo-US efforts to reconstruct the international financial system and Britain's struggle to restore the pre-eminence of sterling and the City.
Author : Jean Jacques Van Helten
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781781959411
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (594 download)
Download or read book Capitalism in a Mature Economy written by Jean Jacques Van Helten and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This important, well edited.... collection of essays focuses primarily on the contentious relationship between finance and industry, revealing the jury to be still out on the thorny question of the City" culpability. David Kynaston, The Financial Times "An extremely useful and informative volume. Michael Collins, University of Leeds, UKCapitalism in a Mature Economy charts the development of the City as the undisputed financial centre of the world in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, reflecting Britain's dominant position in the world economy. The book focuses on four inter-related themes: the development and operations of English capital markets including the stock exchange and the clearing and merchant banks, the financing of British industry, the role of financiers and company promoters, and the financing of British overseas capital investment and trade.
Author : Mario Tiberi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351147986
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book The Accounts of the British Empire written by Mario Tiberi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fundamental role of Great Britain's economy in the international economic system in the century preceding the First World War is demonstrated by a number of variables, which have drawn the interest of many scholars. The focus here is on capital flows. The main difficulty encountered in this work arose from a shortage of documentation on economic data in the historical period under consideration, which has been tentatively reconstructed, on the basis of a number of estimates, subjected to a close comparative scrutiny. The book provides a valid guide to anyone wishing to improve their understanding of the so-called "pax britannica" which, at that time, rested on the canons of free trade and the gold standard. This historical period is considered by many to be the first experience of capitalist globalization. In this sense the book is also intended to provide useful reading for those who want to reflect on the possible future evolution of the world economy.
Author : Kris Manjapra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108607187
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Colonialism in Global Perspective written by Kris Manjapra and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kris Manjapra weaves together the study of colonialism over the past 500 years, across the globe's continents and seas. This captivating work vividly evokes living human histories, introducing the reader to manifestations of colonialism as expressed through war, militarization, extractive economies, migrations and diasporas, racialization, biopolitical management, and unruly and creative responses and resistances by colonized peoples. This book describes some of the most salient political, social, and cultural constellations of our present times across the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. By exploring the dissimilar, yet entwined, histories of conquest, settler colonialism, racial slavery, and empire, Manjapra exposes the enduring role of colonial force and freedom struggle in the making of our modern world.
Author : Michael A. Havinden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134977379
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Colonialism and Development written by Michael A. Havinden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British colonial rule of the tropics is the critical background to contemporary development issues. This study of Britain's economic and political relationship with its tropical colonies provides detailed analyses of trade and policy. The considerations of past successes and failures elucidate current opportunities and developments. No other book covers this broad topic with such detail and clarity.
Author : Chris Cook
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113424035X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Nineteenth Century, 1815-1914 written by Chris Cook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Nineteenth Century, 1815–1914 is an accessible and indispensable compendium of essential information on the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Using chronologies, maps, glossaries, an extensive bibliography, a wealth of statistical information and nearly two hundred biographies of key figures, this clear and concise book provides a comprehensive guide to modern British history from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the outbreak of the First World War. As well as the key areas of political, economic and social development of the era, this book also covers the increasingly emergent themes of sexuality, leisure, gender and the environment, exploring in detail the following aspects of the nineteenth century: parliamentary and political reform chartism, radicalism and popular protest the Irish Question the rise of Imperialism the regulation of sexuality and vice the development of organised sport and leisure the rise of consumer society. This book is an ideal reference resource for students and teachers alike.
Author : Chris Cook
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317875249
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Longman Handbook to Modern British History 1714 - 2001 written by Chris Cook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compact and accessible reference work provides all the essential facts and figures about major aspects of modern British history from the death of Queen Anne to the end of the 1990s. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History has been extended to include a fully-revised bibliography (reflecting the wealth of newly published material in recent years), the new statistics on social and economic history and an expanded glossary of terms. The political chronologies have been revised to include the electoral defeat of John Major and the record of New Labour in office. Designed for the student and general reader, this highly-successful handbook provides a wealth of varied data within the confines of a single volume.
Author : Rondo Cameron
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195345126
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book International Banking 1870-1914 written by Rondo Cameron and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-12 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the product of a unique international scholarly collaboration sponsored jointly by the American Council of Learned Societies and the Soviet Academy of Sciences, provides a comprehensive survey on international banking from 1870 to 1914. In that period international investment reached dimensions previously unknown, and the banking systems of the world achieved a degree of internationalization without precedent. The book's authors, twenty-five scholars from fifteen countries, are the acknowledged experts in their fields. They detail the origin and development of internationally oriented banks in each major country, and explain their role in foreign investment and industrial finance. They look at all areas of the world that were involved in international investment, either as investors, recipients of investment, or both. The definitive work on international banking from 1870 to 1914, this book will interest scholars and students in financial and banking history, bankers and economists in the finanical industry, and general historians.
Author : Shigeru Akita
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317694848
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book The Transformation of the International Order of Asia written by Shigeru Akita and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Asia the 1950s were dominated by political decolonization and the emergence of the Cold War system, and newly independent countries were able to utilize the transformed balance of power for their own economic development through economic and strategic aid programmes. This book examines the interconnections between the transfer of power and state governance in Asia, the emergence of the Cold War, and the transfer of hegemony from the UK to the US, by focusing specifically on the historical roles of international economic aid and the autonomous response from Asian nation states in the immediate post-war context. The Transformation of the International Order of Asia offers closely interwoven perspectives on international economic and political relations from the 1950s to the 1960s, with specific focus on the Colombo Plan and related aid policies of the time. It shows how the plan served different purposes: Britain’s aim to reduce India’s wartime sterling balances in London; the quest for India’s economic independence under Jawaharlal Nehru; Japan’s regional economic assertion and its endeavour to improve its international status; Britain’s publicity policy during the reorganization of British aid policies at a time of economic crisis; and more broadly, the West’s desire to counter Soviet influence in Asia. In doing so, the chapters explore how international economic aid relations became reorganized in relation to the independent development of states in Asia during the period, and crucially, the role this transformation played in the emergence of a new international order in Asia. Drawing on a wide range of international contemporary and archival source materials, this book will be welcomed by students and scholars interested in Asian, international, and economic history, politics and development studies.
Author : Judith Brown
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191647365
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume IV: The Twentieth Century written by Judith Brown and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1999-10-21 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China at the end of the twentieth, British imperialism was a catalyst for far-reaching change. The Oxford History of the British Empire as a comprehensive study allows us to understand the end of Empire in relation to its beginnings, the meaning of British imperialism for the ruled as well as the rulers, and the significance of the British Empire as a theme in world history. Volume IV considers many aspects of the 'imperial experience' in the final years of the British Empire, culminating in the mid-century's rapid processes of decolonization. It seeks to understand the men who managed the empire, their priorities and vision, and the mechanisms of control and connection which held the empire together. There are chapters on imperial centres, on the geographical 'periphery' of empire, and on all its connecting mechanisms, including institutions and the flow of people, money, goods, and services. The volume also explores the experience of 'imperial subjects' - in terms of culture, politics, and economics; an experience which culminated in the growth of vibrant, often new, national identities and movements and, ultimately, new nation-states. It concludes with the processes of decolonization which reshaped the political map of the late twentieth-century world.
Author : Bernard Waites
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349276235
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Europe and the Third World written by Bernard Waites and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1999-07-13 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe and the Third World provides a schematic historical analysis of the relations between Europe and the extra-European periphery within the twin contexts of global economic inequality and global disparities in political power. The colonial and imperial relationships between western Europe and the wider world since the late fifteenth century, and the course and consequences of decolonization, form the substance of the discussion, which concludes with a glance at the links between the European Union and the world's poorest states, most of which are former colonies.
Author : Daniel Larsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108783643
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Plotting for Peace written by Daniel Larsen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Britain by late 1916 facing the prospect of an economic crisis and increasingly dependent on the US, rival factions in Asquith's government battled over whether or not to seek a negotiated end to the First World War. In this riveting new account, Daniel Larsen tells the full story for the first time of how Asquith and his supporters secretly sought to end the war. He shows how they supported President Woodrow Wilson's efforts to convene a peace conference and how British intelligence, clandestinely breaking American codes, aimed to sabotage these peace efforts and aided Asquith's rivals. With Britain reading and decrypting all US diplomatic telegrams between Europe and Washington, these decrypts were used in a battle between the Treasury, which was terrified of looming financial catastrophe, and Lloyd George and the generals. This book's findings transform our understanding of British strategy and international diplomacy during the war.
