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Paperback Imagining Britain's Economic Future, C.1800-1975: Trade, Consumerism, and Global Markets Book

ISBN: 3030100383

ISBN13: 9783030100384

Imagining Britain's Economic Future, C.1800-1975: Trade, Consumerism, and Global Markets

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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.

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