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- Title
The business and the politics of decolonization: the British experience in the twentieth century.
- Authors
White, Nicholas J.
- Abstract
This article examines the business and politics of British decolonization in the 20th century. Historians are increasingly interested in the role of British business in the ending of the British empire. A succession of books, articles and theses based on an interrogation of a newly available business and government papers has examined the business-government relations during the decolonization of particular territories. In surveying the subject literature of business, government and decolonization, this article synthesizes a set of currently disparate case studies and provides the general assessment of the roles of British entrepreneurs, firms and commerical associations in the process of retreat from empire. In so doing, it is possible to scrutinize paradigms which have postulated a close relationship between British businesses and British governments during the end of empire. Neo-marxist, neo-colonial analyses view decolonization as a premptive strategy in which British governments, serving the interest of metropolitan capitalism, cynically anticipated and outmaneouvred colonial radicalism by prematuredly transfering political sovereignty to 'moderate' nationalists.
- Subjects
DECOLONIZATION; BUSINESS; SURVEYS; CASE studies; EVALUATION; BUSINESSMEN; BUSINESS enterprises; CAPITALISM
- Publication
Economic History Review, 2000, Vol 53, Issue 3, p546
- ISSN
0013-0117
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-0289.00170