商品簡介
Focusing on the long term economic structural forces of the British Empire, Cain (history, Sheffield Hallam U., UK) and Hopkins (U. of Cambridge, UK) argue that the institutions of commerce and finance played a hitherto under-appreciated role in the expansion and maintenance of the empire. They analyze the role that the financial, agricultural, commercial, and industrial elites played in the policy making decision at the center of the Empire and conclude that the decolonization process that accelerated after WWII was due at least as much to the shifting priorities among these elites as it was to actions taken at the peripheries of the empire. Originally appeared in 1993 as a two-volume work. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
P.J.Cain teaches in the Department of History, Sheffield Hallam University. A.G. Hopkins is based at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge.
