Imagining Britain's economic future, c.1800-1975 : trade, consumerism and global markets /: trade, consumerism and global markets. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by David Thackeray, Andrew Thompson, Richard Toye.
• Editors: Thackeray, David; Thompson, Andrew S (Andrew Stuart), 1968-; Toye, Richard, 1973-
• Contents: 1 Introduction; David Thackeray, Andrew Thompson and Richard Toye.Part 1- Markets of the future.2 Imagining the opium trade: Britain's justification for the first Anglo-Chinese War; Hao Gao.3 Business in the borderlands: American trade in the South African marketplace, 1871-1902; Stephen Tuffnell; 4 Imagining New Zealand's economy in the mid-twentieth century; Glen O' Hara.Part 2- Imagining global trade.5 Racing round the world: geographical board games and Britain's global expansion, 1780-1850; Paul Young.6 British free trade and the international feminist vision for peace, c.1846-1946; Marc-William Palen.7 What was a British buy? Empire, Europe and the politics of patriotic trade in Britain, c.1945-63; David Thackeray and Richard Toye.8 How self-service happened: the vision and reality of changing market practices in Britain; Lawrence Black and Thomas Spain.Part 3- Rethinking decolonisation.9 Less than an empire and more than British: foreign investor competition in Ghana and Nigeria in the 1960s; Stephanie Decker.10 'Information after imperialism': British overseas representation and Francophone Africa (1957-1967); Andrew Smith.11 Constructing colonial capitalism: the public relations campaigns of Hong Kong business groups, 1959-1966; David Clayton.12 Un-imagining markets: Chambers of Commerce, globalisation and the political economy of the Commonwealth of Nations, 1945-1975; Andrew Dilley.13 Commercial preferences: Economics and Britain's European choices, 1945-2016; Piers Ludlow.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 330.942; Economic development -- Great Britain; Economic forecasting -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 19th century; Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 20th century; Great Britain -- Foreign economic relations -- European Union countries; European Union countries -- Foreign economic relations -- Great Britain
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319712970
• Related ISBNs: 9783319712963
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