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• 1. The Imperialist Dynamic
• 2. Services, Finance and the Gentlemanly Elite
• 3. Industry, the City and the Decline of the international Economy
• 4. The American Challenge, 1914-31
• 5. The Origins of the Sterling area
• 6. Maintaining Financial Discipline: The Dominions, 1914-39
• 7. South America 1914-39
• 8. India 1914-47
• 9. Playing the Game in Tropical Africa, 1914-40
• 10. China, 1911-49
• 11. The City, the Sterling area and Decolonisation
• 12. Conclusion.
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• List of Maps. Preface. Part One:
• 1. Introduction. Part Two:
• 2. 'The Power of Constant Renewal': Services, Finance and the Gentlemanly Elite, 1914-39.
• 3. Industry, the City and the Decline of the International Economy, 1914-39.
• 4. Defending Gentlemanly Values: The American Challenge, 1914-31.
• 5. 'A Latter-Day Expression of Financial Imperialism': The Origins of the Sterling Area, 1931-39. Part Three.
• 6. Maintaining Financial Discipline: The Dominions, 1914-39.
• 7. 'A New Era of Colonial Ambitions': South America, 1914-39.
• 8. 'Financial Stability and Good Government': India, 1914-47.
• 9. 'Playing the Game' in Tropical Africa, 1914-40.
• 10. 'The Only Great Underdeveloped Market in the World': China, 1911-49. Part Four:
• 11. Aftermath: the City, the Sterling Area and Decolonisation.
• 12. Conclusion. Maps. Index.
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Establishes the concept of 'gentlemanely capitalism' and examines the growth of empire and many of its controversial episodes, including the partition of Africa, and concludes - against conventional wisdom - that Britain was still a dynamic imperial power on the eve of World War I.
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This, together with the companion volume, Innovation and Expansion, 1688-1914, provides an ambitious, new and comprehensive interpretation of the forces behind British imperial expansion. The books focus on the interaction of economic, social and political forces on the growth, and (here) the ultimate dissolution, of the Empire. Each volume can be used independently; together, they are a milestone in the history of imperialism, modern Britain and the British Empire itself, and they make an important contribution to comparative history, modern economic development and international relations. Key Features - Follows the fortunes of 'Gentlemanly Capitalism'-the now-widely-accepted concept, first introduced by the authors, that explains the economic dynamics behind Britain's imperial expansion - through the twentieth century into the post-colonial age. Challenges the common view of the period that decolonisation after 1945 was the inevitable outcome of economic decline between the wars. Argues that the gentlemanly order proved remarkably resilient and that when the Empire did fall apart, the forces of 'Gentlemanly Capitalism' in the City of London had simply diverted to other channels, not collapsed. It is aimed at specialists in the area of modern British history, European expansion/imperialism and international relations and the development of the modern world economy. It should also be of interest to serious but non-specialist commentators.
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• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. The High Kingship of the British Isles
• 2. Island Mythologies
• 3. Orbits of Power
• 4. Political Heartlands and Political Outbacks
• 5. 'Sweet Civility' and 'Barbarous Rudeness'
• 6. The Anglicization of the British Isles
• 7. The Ebb Tide of the English Empire 13041343
• Epilogue: The British Isles and the Identity of England
• Index.
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The future of the United Kingdom is an increasingly vexed question. This book traces the roots of the issue to the middle ages, when English power and control came to extend to the whole of the British Isles. By 1300 it looked as if Edward I was in control of virtually the whole of the British Isles. Ireland, Scotland, and Wales had, in different degrees, been subjugated to his authority; contemporaries were even comparing him with King Arthur. This was the culmination of a remarkable English advance into the outer zones of the British Isles in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The advance was not only a matter of military power, political control, and governmental and legal institutions; it also involved extensive colonization and the absorption of these outer zones into the economic and cultural orbit of an England-dominated world. What remained to be seen was how stable (especially in Scotland and Ireland) was this English 'empire'; how far the northern and western parts of the British Isles could be absorbed into an English-centred polity and society; and to what extent did the early and self-confident development of English identity determine the relationships between England and the rest of the British Isles. The answers to those questions would be shaped by the past of the country that was England; the answers would also cast their shadow over the future of the British Isles for centuries to come.
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• Introduction : Coleridge and the rule of law
• The battle of self
• Coleridge's Malta
• The constitutional position of the civil commissioner
• Coleridge's proclamations and public notices
• Thematic Analysis of the proclamations and public notices
• An Assessment of the proclamations and public notices
• Appendices Translations of the proclamations and public notices
• The British occupation of Malta.

"Samuel Taylor Coleridge is best known as a great poet and literary theorist, but for a period of his life he held real political power, acting as Public Secretary to the British Civil Commissioner in Malta in 1805. Barry Hough and Howard Davis show how Coleridge's actions in this role differ markedly from the idealism he had advocated before taking office--shedding new light on Coleridge's sense of political and legal morality. Meticulously researched and including newly discovered archival materials, Coleridge's Laws provides detailed analysis of the laws and public notices drafted by Coleridge, together with the first published translations of them."--Publisher's description.

• Introduction, Philippa Levine and John Marriott-- Part I Times: Age of exploration, Kenneth J. Andrien-- Age of settlement and colonisation, Michael Adas and Hugh Glenn Cagle-- Age of imperial crisis, Philippa Levine.-- Part II Spaces: Chinese empire, Peter C. Perdue-- Ottoman empire, Virginia H. Aksan-- Mughal empire, Michael H. Fisher-- European empires, Philippa Levine-- Russian empire, Willard Sunderland-- North American empire, Mary A. Renda-- Japanese empire, Ryuta Itagaki, Satoshi Mizutani and Hideaki Tobe.-- Part III Themes: Governance, Jon E. Wilson-- Finance, Soren Mentz-- Consumption, Erika Rappaport-- Soldiery, Richard Smith-- Circulation and migration, Michael Mann-- Crime, Lauren Benton-- Slavery, Eve M. Troutt Powell-- Race, Damon Salesa-- Gender, Elsbeth Locher-Scholten-- Ideology, Ben Silverstein and Patrick Wolfe-- Religion, Derek R. Peterson-- Culture, Lara Kriegel-- Art, Natasha Eaton-- Science, medicine and technology, Sujit Sivasundaram-- Environment, Richard Grove and Vinita Damodaran-- Modernity, John Marriott-- Aftermath, Christopher Lee-- Bibliography-- Index.
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Written by leading scholars, this collection provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of modern empires. Spanning the era of modern imperial history from the early sixteenth century to the present, it challenges both the rather insular focuses on specific experiences, and gives due attention to imperial formations outside the West including the Russian, Japanese, Mughal, Ottoman and Chinese. The Companion is divided into three broad sections. Part I - Times - surveys the three main eras of modern imperialism. The first was that dominated by the settlement impulse, with migrants - many voluntarily and many more by force - making new lives in the colonies. This impulse gave way, most especially in the nineteenth century, to a period of busy and rapid expansion which was less likely to promote new settlement, and in which colonists more frequently saw their sojourn in colonial lands as temporary and related to the business mostly of governance and trade. Lastly, in the twentieth century in particular, empires began to fail and to fall. Part II - Spaces - studies the principal imperial formations of the modern world. Each chapter charts the experience of a specific empire while at the same time placing it within the complex patterns of wider imperial constellations. The individual chapters thus survey the broad dynamics of change within the empires themselves and their relationships with other imperial formations, and reflect critically on the ways in which these topics have been approached in the literature. In Part III - Themes - scholars think critically about some of the key features of imperial expansion and decline. These chapters are brief and many are provocative. They reflect the current state of the field, and suggest new lines of inquiry which may follow from more comparative perspectives on empire. The broad range of themes captures the vitality and diversity of contemporary scholarship on questions of empire and colonialism, encompassing political, economic and cultural processes central to the formation and maintenance of empires as well as institutions, ideologies and social categories that shaped the lives both of those implementing and those experiencing the force of empire. In these pages the reader will find the slave and the criminal, the merchant and the maid, the scientist and the artist alongside the structures which sustained their lives and their livelihoods. Overall, the Companion emphasises the diversity of imperial experience and process. Comprehensive in its scope, it draws attention to the particularities of individual empires, rather than over-generalising as if all empires, at all times, and in all places, behaved in a similar manner. It is this contingent and historical specificity that enables us to explore in expansive ways precisely what constituted the modern empire.
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Written by leading scholars, this collection provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of modern empires. Spanning the era of modern imperial history from the early sixteenth century to the present, it challenges both the rather insular focuses on specific experiences, and gives due attention to imperial formations outside the West including the Russian, Japanese, Mughal, Ottoman and Chinese.
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