British imperialism: 1688-2015

Cover
 Title
 Copyright
 CONTENTS
 List of tables and maps
 Extracts from reviews
 Preface to the first edition
 Preface to the second edition
 Preface to the third edition
 Note on sources
 Acknowledgements
 Abbreviations
 Foreword The continuing debate on empire
 PART ONE Introduction, 1688-1914
 1 The problem and the context
 The historiographical setting
 The argument
 Gentility and the market
 The evolution of the gentlemanly order
 The manufacturing interest
 The terms of the trade: expansion and imperialism
 Ideology and methodology
 Conclusion. 2 Prospective: aristocracy, finance and empire, 1688-1850Historiographical perspectives
 The financial revolution: private interests and public virtues
 The evolution of the military-fiscal state
 Exporting the Revolution Settlement
 Conclusion
 PART TWO The gentlemanly order, 1850-1914
 3 'Something peculiar to England': the service sector, wealth and power, 1850-1914
 Economic growth
 Agricultural decline
 Industry after 1850
 The service sector
 The new gentlemanly capitalists
 The City of London and gentlemanly capitalism
 Industry, provincialism and power. Gentlemanly capitalism and politicsAppendix One: economic interests and occupations of members of parliament, 1868-1914
 4 Gentlemanly capitalism and economic policy: City, government and the 'national interest', 1850-1914
 Gladstonian finance
 Gladstonianism, the Bank of England and the gold standard
 The City of London and the national interest
 The Baring Crisis and its resolution
 Industry and economic policy
 City and government in the nineteenth century
 5 'The great emporium': foreign trade and invisible earnings, 1850-1914
 Commodity trade and foreign competition
 Trade in services. Foreign investmentsCommerce, finance and free trade
 6 Two nations? Foreign investment and the domestic economy, 1850-1914
 The City and foreign investment
 Foreign investment and industry
 Foreign investment and economic growth
 Foreign investment and gentlemanly capitalism
 7 Challenging cosmopolitanism: the tariff problem and imperial unity, 1880-1914
 Free trade and empire unity
 Chamberlain and protectionism
 Industry, the City and free trade
 Cosmopolitanism and industrial decline
 Appendix Two: manufacturing interests in parliament, 1868-1910
 PART THREE The wider world, 1815-1914. 8 'An extension of the old society': Britain and the colonies of settlement, 1850-1914The international economy and the New World
 Political liberty and financial dependence
 Australasia
 Canadian unity and British finance
 Britain and the white empire after 1850
 9 Calling the New World into existence: South America, 1815-1914
 A continental perspective
 Argentina
 Brazil
 Chile
 The spread of informal influence
 10 'Meeting her obligations to her English creditors': India, 1858-1914
 Interpretations of the imperial purpose
 Prelude, 1757-1857
 The extension of the gentlemanly order.