The Political Economy of Imperial Relations: Britain, the Sterling Area, and Malaya 1945-1960

by Alex Sutton

Overview

The Political Economy of Imperial Relations offers a much needed historical and theoretical intervention into the relationship between Britain and Malaya after the Second World War. It challenges existing accounts and details a strong continuity in this relationship from 1945 until 1960.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137373977
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	08/12/2015
Series:	Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	222
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Alex Sutton is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His research interests and published work focus on the British Empire in the 20th Century, and the intellectual history of the study of imperialism.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Conceptualising British Imperialism

3. British Relative Economic Decline

4. The Dollar Drain and Colonial Import Policy (1945 – 1950)

5. The Dollar Deficit Continues (1950 – 1955)

6. Malayan Independence and the Sterling Area (1955 – 1960)

7. Concluding Remarks

Editorial Reviews

'This study combines a broad approach to modern imperialism with detailed, archive-based analysis of the Malayan case. By doing so it offers important new insights into the complex relations between financial and political power in the dying days of the formal British Empire' Jim Tomlinson, University of Glasgow, UK

''Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets!', relays Karl Marx in Capital. Alex Sutton reveals new theoretical and historical insights about capital accumulation, the state and class struggle in this fascinating book. It is set to reinvigorate a new wave of contentions within and beyond Marxist understandings of the political economy of imperialism that should be read far and wide.' Adam David Morton, University of Sydney, UK

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