Finance, Trade and Politics in British Foreign Policy, 1815-1914
Details:
- Author(s) Platt, D C M
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1968
- Pages 454pp
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Place Published Oxford
Topics:
- Name Diplomatic issues inc imperialism
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
An early study - then pioneering - of the relationship between finance, trade and politics in the conduct of British foreign policy. Organised in three parts: 1] 'H M Government and overseas finance' - 'The London money market and the banks' / 'H M Government and the bondholders' / 'Contracts and concessions'; 2] 'H M Government and overseas trade' - 'Overseas trade policy' / 'British commercial policy'; 3] 'Finance, trade and British foreign policy' - 'Egypt' / 'Turkey' / 'Persia' / 'Africa' / 'China and the Far East' / 'Latin America'