Money, Finance and Empire
Author: A.N. Porter
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1136611355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book was first published in 1985.
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Money, Finance, and Empire, 1790-1960
Author: R. F Holland
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-11-12
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1136284346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScholars 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.
Money, Finance and Empire
Author: Andrew N. Porter
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780415286190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFinance and Financiers in European History 1880-1960
Author: Youssef Cassis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-06-20
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780521893732
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA highly distinguished team of contributors addresses the complex and crucial role of finance in European history during the period 1880-1960.
A Free Nation Deep in Debt
Author: James MacDonald
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2006-05-22
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9780691126326
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor 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.
John Bullion's Empire
Author: G. Balachandran
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-05-22
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1136790578
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudy 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.
Capitalism in a Mature Economy
Author: Jean Jacques Van Helten
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781781959411
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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.
The Accounts of the British Empire
Author: Mario Tiberi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-11-28
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 1351147986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Colonialism in Global Perspective
Author: Kris Manjapra
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-05-07
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1108607187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKris 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.
Colonialism and Development
Author: Michael A. Havinden
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-06-01
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 1134977379
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBritish 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.
