British economic interests and the international order of Asia in the 1930s / Shigeru Akita -- British imperialism in Asia and Anglo-Japanese relations, 1930s-1950s / Yoichi Kibata -- The formation of an industrialization-oriented monetary order in East Asia / Kaoru Sugihara -- The...

In synthesizing recent studies of the relationships between British businesses and British governments during decolonization, the article takes issue with the "gentlemanly capitalism" paradigm. Imperial business and imperial government did not represent a cohesive elite; private and public...