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.

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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

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University of St Andrews, UK

Alex Sutton

About the author

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.

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Book Title: The Political Economy of Imperial Relations
Book Subtitle: Britain, the Sterling Area, and Malaya 1945-1960
Authors: Alex Sutton
Series Title: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137373984
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-37397-7Published: 27 August 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-37398-4Published: 27 August 2015
Series ISSN: 2635-1633
Series E-ISSN: 2635-1641
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 222
Topics: Asian History, Imperialism and Colonialism, History of Britain and Ireland, History of Southeast Asia, Economic History, Modern History

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Conceptualising British Imperialism

British Relative Economic Decline

The Dollar Drain and Colonial Import Policy (1945–1950)

The Dollar Deficit Continues (1950–1955)

Malayan Independence and the Sterling Area (1955–1960)

Concluding Remarks

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