The rise of global finance in the latter half of the twentieth century has long been understood as one chapter in a larger story about the postwar growth of the United States. This book challenges this popular narrative. Revealing the Anglo-American origins of financial globalization, Jeremy...

This book revisits the economic relationship that ties the UK and Ireland to the United States in the aftermath of the greatest economic crisis of the past fifty years. When considering recent developments to these economic links, it appears that oppositional forces are at work. On one hand,...

Introduction: consumer revolutions -- The English commercial empire expands -- The rise of a "tea-fac'd generation" -- Politicizing American consumption -- The global dimensions of the American tea crisis -- Repatriating tea in revolutionary America -- Chinese tea and American commercial...