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This volume reviews recent scholarship in the theory of gentlemanly capitalism - the complex of economic, social and political power centering on the City of London - which historians have used to explain Britain's imperial expansion.
This volume reviews recent scholarship in the theory of gentlemanly capitalism - the complex of economic, social and political power centering on the City of London - which historians have used to explain Britain's imperial expansion.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- General Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- 1 The Rise and Fall of Horace Tabor, "Colorado's Silver King"--2 Edwin Cade and Frederick Gordon: British Im…
"The years of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, aptly described by Mark Twain as the 'Gilded Age' witnessed an unprecedented level of technological change, material excess, untrammled pursuit of profit and imperial expansion. Within this dynamic and often ruthle…