Empire and globalisation
Subtitle: networks of people, goods and capital in the British world, c.1850-1914
By: Gary Magee, Andrew S. Thompson.
Contributors: Thompson, Andrew S. 1968-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521898898
Subjects: British -- Foreign countries -- History; Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- History; Great Britain -- Commerce -- History
Other titles: Empire and globalization
Description: "Focusing on the great population movement of British emigrants before 1914, this book provides a new perspective on the relationship between empire and globalisation. It shows how distinct structures of economic opportunity developed around the people who settled across a wider British World through the co-ethnic networks they created. Yet these networks could also limit and distort economic growth. The powerful appeal of ethnic identification often made trade and investment with racial 'outsiders' less appealing, thereby skewing economic activities toward communities perceived to be 'British'. By highlighting the importance of these networks to migration, finance and trade, this book contributes to debates about globalisation in the past and present. It reveals how the networks upon which the era of modern globalisation was built quickly turned in on themselves after 1918, converting racial, ethnic and class tensions into protectionism, nationalism and xenophobia. Avoiding such an outcome is a challenge faced today"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Reconfiguring empire: the British world; 2. Networks and the British world; 3. Overseas migration; 4. Markets and consumer cultures; 5. Information and investment; Conclusion.