The Political Economy of Imperial Relations
Britain, the Sterling Area, and Malaya 1945-1960
Authors: Sutton, Alex
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- About this book
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The Political Economy of Imperial Relations offers a much needed historical and theoretical intervention into the relationship between Britain and Malaya after the Second World War. It challenges existing accounts and details a strong continuity in this relationship from 1945 until 1960.
- About the authors
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Alex Sutton is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His research interests and published work focus on the British Empire in the 20th Century, and the intellectual history of the study of imperialism.
- Reviews
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'This study combines a broad approach to modern imperialism with detailed, archive-based analysis of the Malayan case. By doing so it offers important new insights into the complex relations between financial and political power in the dying days of the formal British Empire' Jim Tomlinson, University of Glasgow, UK
''Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets!', relays Karl Marx in Capital. Alex Sutton reveals new theoretical and historical insights about capital accumulation, the state and class struggle in this fascinating book. It is set to reinvigorate a new wave of contentions within and beyond Marxist understandings of the political economy of imperialism that should be read far and wide.' Adam David Morton, University of Sydney, UK
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-8
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Conceptualising British Imperialism
Pages 9-35
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British Relative Economic Decline
Pages 36-54
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The Dollar Drain and Colonial Import Policy (1945–1950)
Pages 55-93
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The Dollar Deficit Continues (1950–1955)
Pages 94-129
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Political Economy of Imperial Relations
- Book Subtitle
- Britain, the Sterling Area, and Malaya 1945-1960
- Authors
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- Alex Sutton
- Series Title
- Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
- Copyright
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-37398-4
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137373984
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-37397-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 222
- Topics