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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 (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Britain, Finance and Empire
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Convergence: Britain, Empire and Sterling Crises, 1947, 1949, 1951
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Divergence: Britain, Empire and Planned Liberalization, 1953–56
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Separation: Britain, Empire and the Return to Multilateralism, Towards 1958 and Beyond
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Conclusion
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
GEROLD KROZEWSKI is Lecturer in History at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Money and the End of Empire
Book Subtitle: British International Economic Policy and the Colonies, 1947–58
Authors: Gerold Krozewski
Series Title: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403919601
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Gerold Krozewski 2001
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-91983-5Published: 18 July 2001
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-42426-9Published: 01 January 2001
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-1960-1Published: 18 July 2001
Series ISSN: 2635-1633
Series E-ISSN: 2635-1641
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 311
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Imperialism and Colonialism, International Political Economy, Modern History, Economic History, International Relations