The pursuit of greatness: Britain and the world role, 1900-1970 (Fontana history of England)

History

Holland, R. F.

Europe

Fontana Press

<p>Beginning with a group of essays on education, the author shows the constricting and limiting effects of empirical assumptions. In his essays on values, he makes it clear that the ethics of empiricism so pervade modern moral philosophy that it can find no place for the notion of absolute value.</p>

Against Empiricism: On Education, Epistemology and Value

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Barnes&Noble

Money, Finance and Empire (Economic History)

Money, Finance and Empire: 1790-1960 (Economic History)

Porter, A.N.

Reference

Routledge

Against Empiricism

Basil Blackwell

Scholars have recently begun to pay renewed attention to the economics of empire, focusing in particular on the requirements of metropolitan Britain's economy and on the activities of imperial businesses. Within this broad field, financial questions, not least the subject of investment overseas or the 'export of capital', have long had a prominent place, and have been equally affected by the development of new appraoches. The consensus as to the volume and direction of Britain's overseas investments is being vigorously challenged. Technological advances have encouraged on a greatly enlarged scale the compilation and analysis of information about British investments and shareholdings abroad. The gradual easing of restrictions on business records has increased facilities for the study, especially, of imperial and colonial banking. Work on the financial policies of central governments is revealing much of interest to students of twentieth-century colonial rule and decolonization. This collection of essays brings together a selection of the latest research on these and other themes, and, for comparative purposes, includes examples of recent continental work.

Money, Finance, and Empire, 1790-1960

Theory and Practice in the History of European Expansion Overseas: Essays in Honour of Ronald Robinson

First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

PORTER, Andrew

Robinson, Ronald

Africa

Emergencies and Disorder in the European Empires After 1945

Bringing together for the first time leading historians of European decolonization, this book is a landmark in the comparative analysis of the fall of the European empires, viewed both as a problematic of European policy-making and as a formative experience in the development of new states.

World

Porter, Andrew F.

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