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020 _a9780511805868 (ebook)
020 _z9780521898898 (hardback)
020 _z9780521727587 (paperback)
040 _aUkCbUP
_beng
_erda
_cUkCbUP
_dBD-SySUS.
082 0 0 _a330.9171241081
_222
100 1 _aMagee, Gary B.,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aEmpire and Globalisation :
_bNetworks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, c.1850–1914 /
_cGary B. Magee, Andrew S. Thompson.
246 3 _aEmpire & Globalisation
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2010.
300 _a1 online resource (314 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520 _aFocusing on the great population movement of British emigrants before 1914, this book provides a 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.
700 1 _aThompson, Andrew S.,
_eauthor.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521898898
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511805868
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c38027
_d38027