Gentlemanly Capitalism, Imperialism and Global History

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction: from Imperial History to Global History

   1. Introduction: from Imperial History to Global History

      • Shigeru Akita

      Pages 1-16

3. British Imperialism and the Global Order

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Gentlemanly Capitalism and the Making of a Global British Empire: Some Connections and Contexts, 1688–1815

      • H. V. Bowen

      Pages 19-42

   3. Globalism and Imperialism: the Global Context of British Power, 1830–1960

      • John Darwin

      Pages 43-64

   4. Empire, Imperialism and the Partition of Africa

      • Ian Phimister

      Pages 65-82

   5. Gentlemanly Imperialism and the British Empire after 1945

      • Gerold Krozewski

      Pages 83-100

4. Gentlemanly Capitalism and Informal Empire in East Asia

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101

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   2. Gentlemanly and Not-so-Gentlemanly Imperialism in China before the First World War

      • Niels P. Petersson

      Pages 103-122

   3. British Imperialism and Decolonization: a Chinese Perspective

      • Shunhong Zhang

      Pages 123-141

   4. The International Order of Asia in the 1930s

      • Shigeru Akita, Naoto Kagotani

      Pages 143-167

   5. Reasserting Imperial Power? Britain and East Asia in the 1930s

      • Yoichi Kibata

      Pages 169-184

   6. British Imperialism, the City of London and Global Industrialization

      • Kaoru Sugihara

      Pages 185-204

5. Response

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205

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   2. The Peculiarities of British Capitalism: Imperialism and World Development

      • Peter Cain, A. G. Hopkins

      Pages 207-255

6. Back Matter

   Pages 256-264

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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.

• British Empire
• capitalism
• colonization
• decolonization
• globalization
• imperialism
• Industrialisierung

• Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Japan

  Shigeru Akita

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.

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