Andrew Dilley

Gebundenes Buch

Commerce and the Commonwealth

Business Association, Political Culture, and Economic Governance, 1886-1975

Beschreibung

This book offers a fresh take on the economics and politics of the British empire and on the Commonwealth of Nations. It pushes the history of the Commonwealth back to the 1880s and uses evidence from business archives to reconstruct, for the first time, the politics and the economic role of this Empire-Commonwealth from the 1880s to the 1930s.

Autor

Andrew Dilley is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Aberdeen. He read Modern History at Wadham College at the University of Oxford and received his MSt and DPhil at the same institution. He lectured in Imperial and Commonwealth history for two years at Kings College London between 2006 and 2008, before taking up his current position. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2013. He has published extensively on the economics and politics of the British empire and the Commonwealth of Nations, including his first book, Finance, Politics, and Imperialism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198807544
• ISBN-10: 0198807546
• Artikelnr.: 74355942