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Empire and Globalisation: Networks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, c.1850-1914

By Gary B. Magee , Andrew S. Thompson

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
0521898897, 9780521898898
LCC
JV1011 .M343 2010
Open Library ID
OL24002846M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1723121 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
315\315
Time added
2010-07-15 08:01:32

Description

Focusing on the great population movement of British emigrants before 1914, this book provides a new perspective on the relationship between empire and globalisation. It shows how distinct structures of economic opportunity developed around the people who settled across a wider British World through the co-ethnic networks they created. Yet these networks could also limit and distort economic growth. The powerful appeal of ethnic identification often made trade and investment with racial 'outsiders' less appealing, thereby skewing economic activities toward communities perceived to be 'British'. By highlighting the importance of these networks to migration, finance and trade, this book contributes to debates about globalisation in the past and present. It reveals how the networks upon which the era of modern globalisation was built quickly turned in on themselves after 1918, converting racial, ethnic and class tensions into protectionism, nationalism and xenophobia. Avoiding such an outcome is a challenge faced today.

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