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020			_a9780521898898 (hardback)
020			_a0521898897 (hardback)
020			_a9780521727587 (pbk.)
020			_a0521727588 (pbk.)
082	0	0	_a005.44 _bMAG
100	1		_aMagee, Gary Bryan
245	1	0	_aEmpire and globalisation : networks of people, goods and capital in the British World, c.1850-1914.
260			_aCambridge ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2010.
300			_axxi, 291 p. : _bill. ;
520			_a"Focusing on the great population movement of British emigrants before 1914, this book provides a new perspective on the relationship between empire and globalisation. It shows how distinct structures of economic opportunity developed around the people who settled across a wider British World through the co-ethnic networks they created. Yet these networks could also limit and distort economic growth. The powerful appeal of ethnic identification often made trade and investment with racial 'outsiders' less appealing, thereby skewing economic activities toward communities perceived to be 'British'. By highlighting the importance of these networks to migration, finance and trade, this book contributes to debates about globalisation in the past and present. It reveals how the networks upon which the era of modern globalisation was built quickly turned in on themselves after 1918, converting racial, ethnic and class tensions into protectionism, nationalism and xenophobia. Avoiding such an outcome is a challenge faced today"--Provided by publisher.
650		0	_aBritish
650		0	_aImperial Globalisation
650		0	_aMigration
650		0	_aConsumer Culture
700	1		_aThompson, Andrew S.
942			_cBK
999			_c342151 _d342151