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Forging a British world of trade : culture, ethnicity, and market in the Empire-Commonwealth, 1880-1975 / David Thackeray.

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Brexit is likely to lead to the largest shift in Britain's economic orientation in living memory. Some have argued that leaving the EU will enable Britain to revive markets in Commonwealth countries with which it has long-standing historical ties. Their opponents maintain that such claims are b...

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Main Author: Thackeray, David (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Great Britain > Commercial policy > History > 20th century.
Great Britain > Foreign economic relations.
Great Britain > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Commercial policy.
Economic history.
International economic relations.
Great Britain.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Locating the British World of trade
  • The importance of being British : networks and the politics of imperial trade, c.1880-1914
  • Between Geneva and Ottawa : the Empire-Commonwealth and the emerging international system, 1915-1939
  • Buying for Britain, China or India? : Forging trade communities during the Great Depression
  • 'What are we doing to earn dollars?' : the old and new Commonwealths in an era of internationalism and decolonization, 1940-1960
  • We're all backing Britain? : patriotic trade and the decline of the British World
  • Selling washing machines in Düsseldorf : the disintegration of the British World of trade, c.1961-1975
  • Coda. 1186-1932-1973-2016.

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