The Political Economy of Imperial Relations

The Political Economy of Imperial Relations offers a much needed historical and theoretical intervention into the relationship between Britain and Malaya after the Second World War. It challenges existing accounts and details a strong continuity in this relationship from 1945 until 1960.

Inhalt

1. Introduction
2. Conceptualising British Imperialism
3. British Relative Economic Decline
4. The Dollar Drain and Colonial Import Policy (1945 - 1950)
5. The Dollar Deficit Continues (1950 - 1955)
6. Malayan Independence and the Sterling Area (1955 - 1960)
7. Concluding Remarks