The Business State
Empire and Big Business in the Twentieth-Century British State
The Business State
Empire and Big Business in the Twentieth-Century British State
320 pages | 21 halftones, 5 tables | 6 x 9
History: British and Irish History, European History, General History
Table of Contents
Introduction: Forging the Imperial Business State
Part One: Expansion
1. “A Game in Which No Points Can Be Thrown Away”: State Trade Promotion in Interwar Britain
2. “A Few Millions Were Neither Here nor There”: Credit, Exports, and an Empire of Commerce
3. Leveraging Empire: Industrial Stabilization at the Bank of England
Part Two: Consolidation
4. Imperial Seeds, British Forests: Empire, Business, and British State Forestry
5. Selling Empire, Projecting Britain: The Empire Marketing Board
6. Protecting Business, Protecting the Empire: Tariffs and the Business State
7. “To Encourage and Assist”: The Business State Rearms
Conclusion: Afterlives and Implications
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
List of Archives Used
Notes
Index