British Imperialism and Globalization, c. 1650-1960

JOSEPH E. INIKORI is Professor of History at the University of Rochester. GARETH AUSTIN is Emeritus Professor of Economic History at the University of Cambridge. He taught at the University of Ghana, 1982-85. JOSEPH E. INIKORI is Professor of History at the University of Rochester.

These essays offer a telling reminder of the material and structural forces that operated upon and within the British Empire in the long nineteenth century, and whose collective impact continue to shape our world.

• Contributors: Ralph A. Austen, Gareth Austin, Erik Green, Anthony Howe, Joseph E. Inikori, Prasannan Parthasarathi, Kenneth Pomeranz, Giorgio Riello, Tirthankar Roy and John Singleton.Introduction Joseph E. Inikori1 From Adam Smith to Brexit: The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Free Trade in Britain, 1776-2016Anthony Howe2 Failure and the Industrial Revolution: The East India Companies' Procurement and the Rise of the British Cotton Textile Industry Giorgio Riello3 Chinese Industrialization: Comparison and Connections as Real and Hypothetical Contexts for Understanding the Nineteenth-Century Global Economy Kenneth Pomeranz4 British Imperialism and Globalization: British West Africa, 1821-1900 Joseph E. Inikori5 "More and More One Cog in the World Economic Machine": Globalization, Development, and African Agency in British West Africa Gareth Austin6 Globalization and the Rationality of Colonial Expansion: The British Empire and West Africa in the Nineteenth Century Ralph A. Austen7 Window of Opportunities: The Great Depression, Protectionism, and the Rise of Profitable Settler Agriculture in Africa Erik Green8 Labor and Environment in Nineteenth-Century Tamilnad, India Prasannan Parthasarathi9 Imperialism, Globalization, and Inequality: The Indian Story Tirthankar Roy10 The Quest for Security in New Zealand and Australia, 1930-1960 John Singleton