Previous page | New search |
The free AfricaBib App for Android is available here
Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | The Power and Privileges of Association: Co-Ethnic Networks and the Economic Life of the British Imperial World |
Author: | Thompson, Andrew |
Year: | 2006 |
Periodical: | South African Historical Journal |
Issue: | 56 |
Pages: | 43-59 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | South Africa Great Britain |
Subjects: | international economic relations colonial history economic history colonial territories colonialism History and Exploration Ethnic and Race Relations Economics and Trade |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02582470609464964 |
Abstract: | This paper argues that the British imperial networks which originated from the mid-19th century onward were a form of transnational association; that they had a profound effect on how economic knowledge was created, disseminated and consumed across the British world; and that they provided the basis for cooperative and collaborative forms of economic exchange. These co-ethnic networks helped to foster a sense of belonging to a pan-British community based on shared values, trust and reciprocity. This sense of belonging in turn eased the flow of people, commodities and capital between Britain and its settler colonies. Scholars of colonial South Africa have been at the forefront of developing such transnational interpretations of South Africa's colonial past. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |