Empire and Globalisation Magee Thompson Hardback Cambridge University Press

Empire and GlobalisationNetworks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, c.18501914\nAuthor(s): Gary B. Magee, Andrew S. Thompson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521898898, 978-0521898898\nSynopsis\nFocusing on the great population movement of British emigrants before 1914, this book provides a perspective on the relationship between empire and globalisation. It shows how distinct structures of economic opportunity developed around the people who settled across a wider British World through the co-ethnic networks they created. Yet these networks could also limit and distort economic growth. The powerful appeal of ethnic identification often made trade and investment with racial 'outsiders' less appealing, thereby skewing economic activities toward communities perceived to be 'British'. By highlighting the importance of these networks to migration, finance and trade, this book contri.