Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
