1st Edition
Money, Finance, and Empire, 1790-1960
196 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Preface; Financial Capitalism and Imperialism in Late Victorian and Edwardian England; The Export of British Finance, 1865-1914; Canada and Argentina: the First Preference of the British Investor, 1904-14; Anglo-Indian Banking in British India: From the Paper Pound to the Gold Standard; The Banking Community of London, 1890-1914: A Survey; The Phases of French Colonial Imperialism: Towards a New Periodization; Indo-British Relations in the Post-Colonial Era: The Sterling Balances Negotiations, 1947-49; Britain, the Sterling Area and European Integration, 1945-50
Biography
R. F Holland, A. N Porter
