Following the Brexit vote, this book offers a timely historical assessment of the different ways that Britain's economic future has been imagined and how British ideas have influenced global debates about market relationships over the past two centuries. The 2016 EU referendum hinged to a...

"This volume recasts our understanding of the practical and theoretical foundations and dynamic experiences of early modern imperialism. The imperial encounter with political economy was neither uniform across political, economic, cultural, and religious constellations nor static across time....

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...