商品簡介
Arguing that Britain's sterling policy had a significant impact on its colonial economic policy, this book focuses on the connection between Britain's sterling and balance of payments policy, colonial economic policy, and the British government's decision to transfer power to colonial peoples. The volume considers such factors as sterling policy and the state of the British economy, U.S. and Western European pressure for multilateralism in Britain's trade and commercial policy, the movement toward independence in colonial territories, and the cost of financing colonial development and welfare. The book also considers postwar developments in Ghana, Nigeria, and the Malayan Federation--the three greatest dollar-earning colonies--that caused Britain to extricate itself and transfer power to these colonial peoples.
作者簡介
ALLISTER HINDS is Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of the West Indies--Mona Campus./e He has published a number of articles on the impact of the sterling on colonial economic policy in general and the Nigerian economy in particular.
