Managing the Business of Empire - Essays in Honour of David Fieldhouse

Informationen zum Autor Peter Burroughs, A.J. Stockwell Klappentext This collection of essays honours David Fieldhouse, latterly Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at Cambridge and a foremost authority on the economics of the modern British Empire. The contributors include an impressive array of former students, colleagues, and friends, and their subjects range widely across the economic and administrative fields of British imperial history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Reflecting many of Fieldhouse's own areas of scholarly interest, the essays address economics and business, theories of imperialism, strategies of administration, and decolonization. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays honours David Fieldhouse, many addressing Fieldhouse's own areas: colonialism, economics and business, strategies of rule, and decolonization. Inhaltsverzeichnis African Affairs- "An impressive list of scholars has been assembled and the standard of the contributions is high."International History Review- " It must have been a daunting challenge to try to honour David Fieldhouse, who ranks among the top three or four living historians of British imperial history ...This collection of essays, however, fully meets the challenge, and can be read in its entirety as a kind of progress report on British imperial history and the state of its scholarship, controversies, and interpretations."Business History Review, Vol 73, No 3, Autumn 99"A sparkling set of essays, uniformly interesting, readable and (certainly to this reader) useful."African History Vol 42"A high standard in research and presentation

Product details

• Authors: Peter Stockwell Burroughs
• Assisted by: Peter Burroughs (Editor), Burroughs Peter (Editor), A.J. Stockwell (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.1998
• EAN: 9780714648262
• ISBN: 978-0-7146-4826-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, British Empire, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Colonialism and imperialism, General and world history, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence