Gentlemanly Capitalism, Imperialism and Global History

British imperial history can now be seen as a bridge to global history. This study tries to renew the debate on British imperialism by combining Western and Asian historiography and constructing a new global history as an aid to the understanding of globalization in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Part One takes a predominantly metropolitan view of the globalizing forces unleashed by British imperialism; Part Two focuses on the international order of East Asia and its connection with gentlemanly capitalism.

Autorentext
H.V. BOWEN Senior Lecturer, Department of Economic and Social History, University of Leicester PETER CAIN Research Professor, Department of History, Sheffield Hallam University JOHN DARWIN Fellow of Nuffield College, Beit Lecturer in the History of the British Commonwealth, Oxford University TONY HOPKINS Walter Prescott Webb Professor of History, University of Texas, Austin, USA NAOTO KAGOTANI Associate Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, Japan YOICHI KIBATA Professor, Graduate School of Advanced Social and International Studies, University of Tokyo GEROLD KROZEWSKI Research Fellow, Department of History, Sheffield Hallam University NIELS P. PETERSSON Lecturer, Department of History and Sociology, University of Konstanz, Germany IAN PHIMISTER Professor of International History, University of Sheffield KAORU SUGIHARA Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University SHUNHONG ZHANG Professor, Institute of World History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing.

Inhalt
Introduction: From Imperial History to Global History; S.Akita PART I: BRITISH IMPERIALISM AND THE GLOBAL ORDER Gentlemanly Capitalism and the Making of a Global British Empire: Some Connections and Contexts 1688-1815; H.V.Bowen Globalism and Imperialism: The Global Context of British Power 1830-1860; J.Darwin Empire, Imperialism and the Partition of Africa; I.Phimister Gentlemanly Imperialism and the British Empire after 1945; G.Krozewski PART 2: GENTLEMANLY CAPITALISM AND INFORMAL EMPIRE IN EAST ASIA Gentlemanly and Not-so-Gentlemanly Imperialism in China before the First World War; N.P.Petersson British Imperialism and Decolonization: A Chinese Perspective; S.Zhang The International Order of Asia in the 1930s; S.Akita & N.Kagotani Reasserting Imperial Power? British and East Asia in the 1930s; Y.Kibata British Imperialism, the City of London and Global Industrialization; K.Sugihara The Peculiarities of British Capitalism: Imperialism and World Development; P.Cain & T.Hopkins