Covering the colonial Empire (including West Indies, India, Singapore, West Africa and East Africa), this book is a detailed revisionist history of the British imperial manipulations of colonial currency systems to facilitate the rise of sterling to world supremacy via the gold standard, and to...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Prologue to Morice: Anglo-African Trade under the Royal African Company Monopoly -- Chapter 3: Morice’s Peers: The Early British Separate Traders -- Chapter 4: Morice’s Beginnings:1704-1719 -- Chapter 5: Morice at the Peak, 1720-1727 -- Chapter 6:...

Introduction -- Part I. Emerging Champion -- Chapter 1. Winning the Peace -- Chapter 2. British Trade Bank -- Chapter 3. Finance and Industry -- Chapter 4. Dash for Growth -- Part II. Merchant Adventurer -- Chapter 5. Russia -- Chapter 6. Turkey -- Chapter 7. Middle East -- Chapter 8....

This book brings together for the first time more than half a dozen proposals, including several which have never been studied before, to show how thinkers on empire drew on monetary thought and banking theory to address the financial, political and constitutional challenges of empire in the...