1st Edition

Gentlemanly Capitalism and British Imperialism The New Debate on Empire

By Raymond E. Dumett Copyright 1999
    248 Pages
    by Routledge

    248 Pages
    by Routledge

    The publication by Longman of P J Cain and A.G. Hopkins two-volume study of "British Imperialism" (1688-1914; 1914-1994) caused a sensation amongst historians of European imperialism and economic international history. The theory of `gentlemanly capitalism' - the complex of economic, social and political power centring on the City of London - which they developed to explain Britain's imperial expansion has since been expanded , both in its original theory and its implications. Here now is a purpose-built volume prepared in collaboration with the original authors which reviews the latest state of scholarship in the field and develops it further.

    1. Introduction: Exploring the Cain/Hopkins Paradigm, Issues for Debate; Critique and Topics for New Research.  2. Gentlemanly Capitalism and British Economic Policy, 1880-1914, The Debate Over Bimetallism and Protectionism. 
    3. Profit and Power: Informal Empire, the Navy and Latin America.  4. The Late Nineteenth Century Imperialist: Specification, Quantification and Controlled Conjectures.  5. Economic Power at the Periphery: Canada, Australia and South Africa 1850-1914.  6. Imperial Economic Controls Through Sterling in the Twentieth Century.  7. British Informal Empire in the Far East 1880-1939: A Japanese Perspective.  8. Gentlemanly Capitalism and the Raj: British Policy in India Between the World Wars.  9. Gentlemanly Capitalism and Empire in the Twentieth Century: the Forgotten Case of Malaya.  10. The Theory and Practice of British Imperialism.

    Biography

    Raymond E. Dumett