Managing the Business of Empire

Essays in Honour of David Fieldhouse

Peter Burroughs, A.J. Stockwell

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781134729050
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Economic Theory
• Index: Economics

This collection of essays honours David Fieldhouse, latterly Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at Cambridge and a foremost authority on the economics of the modern British Empire. The contributors include an impressive array of former students, colleagues, and friends, and their subjects range widely across the economic and administrative fields of British imperial history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Reflecting many of Fieldhouse's own areas of scholarly interest, the essays address economics and business, theories of imperialism, strategies of administration, and decolonization.

Index

Abdul Rahman,Tunku 138, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 147, 148, 149–50, 152, 154, 167–8

Achebe, Chinua 237, 239, 245

Acheson, Dean G. 148

Adderley, Sir Charles 54

Afgkanistan 41, 42, 57

Africa, parition of 4, 16, 28, 57, 58

African National Congress 163

agriculture 3, 4, 19, 22, 30, 31, 39, 88–97, 132, 133, 134, 139

commercial agriculture 197, 202–4

land usage 17, 90–7, 200, see also plantations

Algeria 37

Allen, Edwin 125

Amory Derick Heathcote 162

anti-imperialism, anti-imperialists 8, 15, 63, 214, 216, 217

apartheid 4, 158, 159, 161, 164, 165, 167, 170, 173

Armitage, R.P. 104, 105, 112

Attlee, Clement R. 144, 178, 179, 180

Australia 2, 4, 14, 28, 35, 40, 51, 52, 54–7, 85–92

passim, 95, 143, 147–8, 153, 167, 176–93, 196–9, 200–3, 205, 208–9

Austria 35, 36

Ayub Khan, Mohammud 166–7, 169, 171

Azahari, A.M. 142

Baker, Herbert 69, 72, 75, 76, 77–8

Balewa, Sir Abubakar Tafawa 164, 167–8, 170–1

Bandaranaike, S.R.D. 167–8, 170

Bank of British West Africa 103, 111

Bank of the England 104–7, 108, 109, 111, 113, 114, 165

Bank of Ghana 110, 115

Bank of the Gold Coast 106, 108, 109–10, 111, 112

banking 3, 30, 100–15, 197, 200, 201–2, 203, 207, 20...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Full Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• David Fieldhouse and the Business of Empire
• The First Age of Global Imperialism, c. 1760–1830
• The Earl of Carnarvon, Empire, and Imperialism, 1855–90
• Edwin Lutyens, New Delhi, and the Architecture of Imperialism
• Empire of the Dandelion: Ecological Imperialism and Economic Expansion, 1860–1914
• Instilling the ’Sterling Tradition’: Decolonization and the Creation of a Central Bank in Ghana
• The ‘Jamaica 300’ Celebrations of 1955: Commemoration in a Colonial Polity
• Malaysia: The Making of a Neo-Colony?
• The Parting of the Ways: Britain and South Africa’s Departure from the Commonwealth, 1951–61
• Waving Goodbye? Australia, Assisted Passages, and the Empire and Commonwealth Settlement Acts, 1945–72
• Mammon in Paradise: Economic Enterprise in Pacific Historiography
• David Fieldhouse and ‘Imperialism’: Some Historiographical Revisions
• Taking Fieldhouse Further: Post-Colonializing Imperial History
• Notes on Contributors
• Published Writings by David Fieldhouse
• Index