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.
This collection of essays honours David Fieldhouse, many addressing Fieldhouse's own areas: colonialism, economics and business, strategies of rule, and decolonization.
Preface 1(5) David Fieldhouse and the Business of Empire 6(22) Peter Burroughs The First Age of Global Imperialism, c. 1760-1830 28(20) C.A. Bayly The Earl of Carnarvon, Empire, and Imperialism, 1855-90 48(19) Bruce Knox Edwin Lutyens, New Delhi, and the Architecture of Imperialism 67(17) Jane Ridley Empire of the Dandelion: Ecological Imperialism and Economic Expansion, 1860-1914 84(16) B.R. Tomlinson Instilling the `Sterling Tradition: Decolonization and the Creation of a Central Bank in Ghana 100(20) S.E. Stockwell The `Jamaica 300 Celebrations of 1955: Commemoration in a Colonial Polity 120(18) Howard Johnson Malaysia: The Making of a Neo-Colony? 138(19) A.J. Stockwell The Parting of the Ways: Britain and South Africas Departure from the Commonwealth, 1951-61 157(19) Ronald Hyam Waving Goodbye? Australia, Assisted Passages, and the Empire and Commonwealth Settlement Acts, 1945-72 176(20) Stephen Constantine Mammon in Paradise: Economic Enterprise in Pacific Historiography 196(17) Colin Newbury David Fieldhouse and `Imperialism: Some Historiographical Revisions 213(20) Stephen Howe Taking Fieldhouse Further: Post-Colonializing Imperial History 233(18) Phillip Darby Notes on Contributors 251(2) Published Writings by David Fieldhouse 253(4) Index 257
Peter Burroughs, A.J. Stockwell
