Money and the End of Empire
British International Economic Policy and the Colonies, 1947–58
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Money and the End of Empire
British International Economic Policy and the Colonies, 1947–58
About this book
This book presents a penetrating new analysis of the end of the empire, located at the intersection of politics, economy and society in Britain and the colonies. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, when political control was feasible, discriminatory management of the colonies sustained Britain's postwar recovery. But synergy turned into conflict as Britain moved towards economic liberalization and financial cosmopolitanism, and found it increasingly difficult to reconcile established relations with emerging priorities. Based on a wide range of archival and other sources, this study relates political and economic developments in Britain and the colonies in original ways to overcome the gulf between peripheralist and Euro-centric explanations of postwar British imperial relations, and helps redress the neglect of the empire in modern international history. Money and the End of Empire will nourish debates in British and international economic and political history and is essential reading for historians of Britain and the empire.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Figures, Tables and Appendices
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Britain, Finance and Empire
- Part II Convergence: Britain, Empire and Sterling Crises, 1947, 1949, 1951
- Part III Divergence: Britain, Empire and Planned Liberalization, 1953–56
- Part IV Separation: Britain, Empire and the Return to Multilateralism, Towards 1958 and Beyond
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index