Overview
- Explores the different ways that Britain’s economic future has been imagined over the last two centuries
- Examines the interplay between the high political thought of theorists, the activities of officials and businessmen, and the everyday experience of the wider public
- Contributions expand our understanding of the mental visualisation and perceptions of a range of different markets by a range of different communities
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About this book
Following the Brexit vote, this book offers a timely historical assessment of the different ways that Britain’s economic future has been imagined and how British ideas have influenced global debates about market relationships over the past two centuries. The 2016 EU referendum hinged to a substantial degree on how competing visions of the UK should engage with foreign markets, which in turn were shaped by competing understandings of Britain’s economic past.
The book considers the following inter-related questions:
- What roles does economic imagination play in shaping people’s behaviour and how far can insights from behavioural economics be applied to historical issues of market selection?
- How useful is the concept of the ‘official mind’ for explaining the development of market relationships?
- What has been the relationship between expanding communications and the development of markets?
- How and why have certain regions or groupings (e.g. the Commonwealth) been ‘unimagined’- losing their status as promising markets for the future?
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Imagining Global Trade
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Rethinking Decolonisation
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
David Thackeray is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Exeter, UK.
Andrew Thompson is Professor of History at the University of Exeter, UK, and Chief Executive of the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Richard Toye is Professor of History at the University of Exeter, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Imagining Britain’s Economic Future, c.1800–1975
Book Subtitle: Trade, Consumerism, and Global Markets
Editors: David Thackeray, Andrew Thompson, Richard Toye
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71297-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71296-3Published: 16 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10038-4Published: 25 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71297-0Published: 04 April 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 308
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Imperialism and Colonialism, Economic History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Modern History