Gentlemanly Capitalism and British Imperialism: The New Debate on Empire

ISBN-13: 9780582327825 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 248 str.

Raymond E. Dumett

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Raymond E. Dumett