Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire Abridged Edition
The Economics of British Imperialism
Historians have so far made few attempts to assess directly the costs and benefits of Britain's investment in empire. This book presents answers to some of the key questions about the economics of imperialism: how large was the flow of finance to the empire? How great were the profits on empire investment? What were the social costs of maintaining the empire? Who received the profits, and who bore the costs? The authors show that colonial finance did not dominate British capital markets; returns from empire investment were not high in comparison to earnings in the domestic and foreign sectors; there is no evidence of continued exploitative pr…
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Weitere Autoren: Huttenback, Robert A. / Lance Edwin, Davis
- ISBN: 978-0-521-35723-4
- EAN: 9780521357234
- Produktnummer: 9501720
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.8 cm 494 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 494
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