Contents

List of Maps and Figure vii

Notes on the Contributors viii

Acknowledgements xi

Maps xii

1 Introduction: from Imperial History to Global History 1

Shigeru Akita

Part I: British Imperialism and the Global Order

2 Gentlemanly Capitalism and the Making of a Global British Empire: Some Connections

and Contexts, 1688-1815 19

H.V.

3 Globalism and Imperialism: the Global Context of

British Power, 1830-1960 43

John Darwin

4 Empire, Imperialism and the Partition of Africa 65

Ian Phimister

5 Gentlemanly Imperialism and the British Empire

after 1945 83

Gerold Krozewski

Part II: Gentlemanly Capitalism and Informal Empire in East Asia

6 Gentlemanly and Not-so-Gentlemanly Imperialism

in China before the First World War 103

Niels P. Petersson

7 British Imperialism and Decolonization: a Chinese

Perspective 123

Shunhong Zhang

8 The International Order of Asia in the 1930s 143

Shigeru Akita and Naoto Kagotani

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

Yoichi Kibata

10 British Imperialism, the City of London and Global Industrialization

Kaoru Sugihara

Part III: Response

11 The Peculiarities of British Capitalism: Imperialism and World Development

Peter Cain and A.G. Hopkins

Index

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List of Maps and Figure

Map 1

Map 2

Map 3

Fig. 8.1

The Partition of Africa by 1902

After: Simon C. Smith, British Imperialism 1750-1970 (1998)

Foreign spheres of influence in China, c. 1900

After: C. C. Eldridge, Victorian Imperialism (1978)

The British Empire, c. 1931

After: Simon C. Smith, British Imperialism 1750-1970 (1998)

The Emerging 'Devaluation Sphere' in East Asia and the International Order of Asia in the 1930s

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