Title Finance, politics, and imperialism : Australia, Canada, and the City of London, c.1896-1914 / Andrew Dilley

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 258 pages) Series Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series. Contents List of Tables -- List of Graphs -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Dramatis Personae -- Introduction -- PART I: THE ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS OF CAPITAL EXPORT -- Capital Imports and Economic Development in Two Settler Societies -- Australian and Canadian Borrowing in the Edwardian City -- PART II: THE CITY, POLITICAL ECONOMY, AND SETTLER SOCIETIES -- The Rules of the Game -- Risk, Empire, and Britishness -- PART III: THE POLITICS OF FINANCE€ -- Canadian Politics and London Finance, 1896-1914 -- The Politics of Finance in Three Australian States: Victoria, New South Wales, and Western Australia, 1901-1914 -- Influence Stumped? The Commonwealth and the City, 1901-1913 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- -- -- € Summary In Finance, Politics and the Dominions, Andrew Dilleyoffers a major new contribution to the history of British imperialism and of the 'British World'. Drawing on a considerable range of archival, press, and other contemporary sources, he uses a comparative approach to highlight the ways in which dependence on London finance shaped political life in Australia and Canada between 1896 and 1914, and shows how these impacts were in turn shaped by the processes of economic development in these settler capitalist societies. Deploying an innovative combination of economic, business, political, and cultural history, his studythrows new light onto debates about gentlemanly capitalism, and the cultural economy of the British world. It offers fresh insights into the history of the City of London, and into Anglo-Dominion relations, and Australian and Canadian politics, and more broadly, insists on the importance of political economy in the history of the British empire Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject HISTORY -- Australia & New Zealand. HISTORY -- Canada -- General. HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Finance. International economic relations Außenwirtschaft Imperialismus Kreditmarkt Kapitalexport Finanzpolitik Finanzintermediäre Regulierung SUBJECT Australia -- Foreign economic relations -- Great Britain -- History Great Britain -- Foreign economic relations -- Australia -- History Canada -- Foreign economic relations -- Great Britain -- History Great Britain -- Foreign economic relations -- Canada -- History City of London (England) -- History Australia -- Foreign economic relations -- Great Britain Subject Australia Canada England -- City of London Great Britain Australien Kanada Großbritannien London Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230355835 0230355838

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