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Survey Of British Commonwealth Affairs Vol Ii Problems Of Economic Policy 1918 1939
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Book Synopsis Problems of British Economic Policy, 1870-1945 by : Jim Tomlinson
Download or read book Problems of British Economic Policy, 1870-1945 written by Jim Tomlinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most historical accounts of economic policy set out to describe the way in which governments have attempted to solve their economic problems and to achieve their economic objectives. Jim Tomlinson, however, focuses on the problems themselves, arguing that the way in which areas of economic policy become ‘problems’ for policy makers is always problematic itself, that it is never obvious and never happens ‘naturally’. This approach is quite distinct from the Marxist, the Keynesian or the neo-classical accounts of economic policy, the schools of thought which are described and criticized in the introduction. Subsequent chapters use the issues of unemployment, the gold standard and problems of trade and Empire to demonstrate that these competing accounts all obscure the true complexities of the process. Because they adhere to simple assumptions about the role of economic theory or of ‘vested interests’ previous histories have been unable adequately to explain the dramatic change after the First World War in attitudes to unemployment, for instance, or the decision to return to gold in 1925. Jim Tomlinson surveys the institutional circumstances, the conflicting political pressures and the theories offered at the time in an attempt to discover the conditions which characterized the questions as economic problems and contributed to the choice of ‘solutions’. The result is a sophisticated and intellectually compelling account of matters which have remained at the forefront of political debate since its first publication in 1981.
Book Synopsis Redefining the Bonds of Commonwealth, 1939-1948 by : F. McKenzie
Download or read book Redefining the Bonds of Commonwealth, 1939-1948 written by F. McKenzie and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-06-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a path-breaking study of the changing attitudes of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa to Britain and the Commonwealth in the 1940s and the effect of those changes on their individual and collective standing in international affairs. The focus is imperial preference, the largest discriminatory tariff system in the world and a potent symbol of Commonwealth unity. It is based on archival research in Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
Book Synopsis The Commonwealth of Nations by : W. David McIntyre
Download or read book The Commonwealth of Nations written by W. David McIntyre and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a professor of history at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, presents a comprehensive survey of Commonwealth history from the time of soul-searching about the future of the British Empire, which marked the middle years of Queen Victoria’s reign, to the year when Britain decided to enter the European Community. The account is divided in three periods - 1869 to 1917, 1917 to 1941, and 1942 to 1971. Within each period a four-fold thematic divisions is followed: Dominions, Indian Empire, crown colonies, and protectorates.
Book Synopsis Africa, Empire and Fleet Street by : Jonathan Derrick
Download or read book Africa, Empire and Fleet Street written by Jonathan Derrick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades before and after African independence, the London weekly West Africa was a well-known source of news, analysis and comment on the region, especially the (former) British territories. Jonathan Derrick, who worked on the magazine's staff in the 1960s and again in its final years before closure in 2003, here studies the earlier history of West Africa through the story of its largely forgotten editor, Albert Cartwright, from the magazine's founding in 1917 to Cartwright's retirement in 1947. Before editing West Africa, Cartwright spent twenty years in South Africa, making the headlines in 1901 when, as editor of Cape Town's South African News during the Boer War, he was jailed for a year for a war crimes allegation against Lord Kitchener. Exploring Cartwright family papers and memories, Derrick reveals the complex nature of a man who, for three decades, ran a colonial magazine but was appreciated by Africans as someone who genuinely understood them. Derrick places the story of colonial-era West Africa, which would reach its greatest heights during the independence period, within the wider landscape of British periodicals dealing with Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Book Synopsis Preserving Power Through Coalitions by : Maria Sampanis
Download or read book Preserving Power Through Coalitions written by Maria Sampanis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-11-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sampanis argues that the United States uses agricultural trade liberalization as a bonding issue with middle and weak countries, that the US then uses this relationship to improve its bargaining position with its challengers, that the US uses this relationship to enhance its competitiveness vis-a-vis its challengers, and that the US also uses this relationship to improve its access into middle and weak countries. Sampanis also shows that Britain before it also used negotiated arrangements with weaker states to gain bargaining power and improve competitiveness with challengers. What do you do if-after years of doing what you want, getting others to do what you want, and essentially calling the shots-you can no longer simply do what you wish, convince others to do as you prefer, and dictate agendas? Sampanis examines through the lens of agricultural policy this dilemma faced by hegemons in decline, those once preeminent states whose dominance is gradually eroded by the very successes they encouraged. As a self-preservation measure the United States-and Great Britain before it-negotiated arrangements with weaker states to gain bargaining power with challengers. Forming a coalition with those previously ignored, these declining hegemons maneuvered survival. Britain transformed its empire into a commonwealth; it used trade incentives to curry continued allegiance. In a significant policy shift, the United States seeks common ground with middle and weak states to rejuvenate its economic competitiveness in those economies as well as in those of its developed competitors. The tactice worked better for the United States, since a coalition of numbers translates into a coalition of votes in the institutional frameworks its hegemonic leadership fosters. As Sampanis shows, for both the United States and Great Britain, the prize has been an extended lease on influence.
Book Synopsis Stanley Melbourne Bruce by : David Lee
Download or read book Stanley Melbourne Bruce written by David Lee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's Prime Minister and premier diplomat in the 1930/1940s, this new biography presents him as a consistent internationalist and places him in a global context. Stanley Melbourne Bruce was at the centre of Imperial politics for more than two decades from the early 1920s until the end of the Second World War. This new biography presents Bruce as a consistent internationalist. Educated in Melbourne and Cambridge, Bruce, as a businessman, was alive to the importance of international commerce, and particularly Anglo-Australian trade. This lay at the core of his internationalism, which took the form in the 1920s of encouraging the political and economic integration of the British Empire. Bruce's punitive treatment of militant Australian trade unionists and his upholding of constitutionalism and law and order in the 1920s was part of an effort to defend one form of internationalism, commitment to the British Empire, against the competing international ideology of communism. While continuing to support a unified British Empire acting as a progressive force in world affairs, Bruce championed stronger international collaboration through the League of Nations and the United Nations and through cooperation between the Empire and the United States.
Book Synopsis British Unemployment 1919-1939 by : W. R. Garside
Download or read book British Unemployment 1919-1939 written by W. R. Garside and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1990 book is a comprehensive study of government reactions to the interwar unemployment problem. Drawing upon an extensive range of primary and secondary sources, it analyses official ameliorative policy towards unemployment and contemporary reactions to such intervention.
Book Synopsis Australia in the Global Economy by : Barrie Dyster
Download or read book Australia in the Global Economy written by Barrie Dyster and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the evolution of Australia's position in the global economy from the start of the twentieth century through to today.
Book Synopsis The Empire of Progress by : D. Stephen
Download or read book The Empire of Progress written by D. Stephen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This much-needed study of the British Empire Exhibition reveals durable, persistent connections between empire and domestic society in Britain during the interwar years. It demonstrates that the Exhibition was a marker of how by 1924, imperial relations were increasingly likely to be shaped by forces located on the colonial periphery.
Book Synopsis Britain, Egypt and the Middle East by : John Darwin
Download or read book Britain, Egypt and the Middle East written by John Darwin and published by Springer. This book was released on 1981-05-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis State Intervention in Great Britain by : Samuel J. Hurwitz
Download or read book State Intervention in Great Britain written by Samuel J. Hurwitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1968. This is a study of the impact of the First WorId War on the role of government in the economy of a country which was the prototype of modern industrial society and focuses on the economic control and social response during 1914 to 1919.
Book Synopsis Educating the Middlemen by : Jan-Georg Deutsch
Download or read book Educating the Middlemen written by Jan-Georg Deutsch and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The refereed series ZMO-Studien publishes monographs and edited volumes which mirror the interdisciplinary research programme and approach of the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient.
Book Synopsis Negotiating Freer Trade by : Ian M. Drummond
Download or read book Negotiating Freer Trade written by Ian M. Drummond and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On November 17, 1938, Great Britain, the United States, and Canada, after four years of discussion and manoeuvre, signed two wide–ranging and interlocking trade agreements. A few large elements dominated the talks. The Americans wanted to breach the walls of the British imperial preferential tariff system. The British were anxious to retain markets and political support in the British dominions and the Baltic, while protecting their domestic agriculture and improving political relations with the United States. Canada, whose acquiescence and co–operation were necessitated by the pre–existing network of trade agreements, hoped to win new export markets, to retain old ones, and to achieve international political tranquility through economic means. Although the negotiations began with a mixture of lofty and ignoble motives, in the end the latter predominated. The authors have drawn on archival and statistical materials in all three countries to provide a clear and detailed account of the economic context of the mid–1930s, the process of negotiations, the issues, and the political and economic significance, both then and now, of the final agreements. Their work is a valuable case–study of the problems that face any country that tries to negotiate freer trade. It is therefore full of contemporary resonance and relevance, and will be of interest to students of and specialists in modern history (European, British, and North American), international relations, and international economic policy.
Book Synopsis The Oxford History of the British Empire: The twentieth century by : Judith Margaret Brown
Download or read book The Oxford History of the British Empire: The twentieth century written by Judith Margaret Brown and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text looks at the growth of vibrant, often new, national identities, movements and new nation-states that reshape the political map of the late 20th century world.
Book Synopsis Africa, Empire and World Disorder by : A. G. Hopkins
Download or read book Africa, Empire and World Disorder written by A. G. Hopkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together important articles from the Cambridge historian A. G. Hopkins and reflect the enlargement and evolution of historical studies during the last half century. The essays cover four of the principal historiographical developments of the period: the extraordinary revolution that has led to the writing of non-Western indigenous history; the revitalization of new types of imperial history; the now ubiquitous engagement with global history, including a reinterpretation of American Empire, and the current revival of economic history after several decades of neglect.
Book Synopsis Black Africa 1945-1980 by : D K Fieldhouse
Download or read book Black Africa 1945-1980 written by D K Fieldhouse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what ways did economic considerations affect the decision by Britain and France to make their Black African colonies independent? Why were early expectations that independence would lead to rapid and sustained economic development in Africa for the most part disappointed? This title, originally published in 1986, seeks to tackle these two important and strongly debated issues. The main aim and value of the book is to take a broad view of this huge subject, pulling together material on most parts of Black Africa south of the Sahara and north of the Limpopo so that the problem can be seen as a whole. It takes account of a wide range of possible and actual factors which have influenced African economic development, weaving them into a single analysis, including the colonial inheritance, the impact of the fluctuating international economy, policies adopted by African governments and indigenous factors such as climate, drought and human resources. The book is written to be understood without difficulty by non-specialists and is intended to act as an introduction to its subject for university students.
Book Synopsis Depression & Protectionism by : Forrest Capie
Download or read book Depression & Protectionism written by Forrest Capie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depression and Protectionism considers the case of the oldest advocate of free trade and its greatest exponent, Britain, and examines the developments that led to the reversal of that policy in the 1930s. It also discusses the consequences of the protectionst policy for the domestic economy. * Discusses the most important debate in international economics * Using an explicit economic framework, the book examines the economic origins of the industrial tariff in Britain.
