Christopher Dow (1916-98) was one of the most accomplished British economists of the post-war generation. His influence - and relative anonymity - came from devoting his exceptional abilities to public service for most of his career, notably at the Bank of England. The memoirs t…
The political economy of neglect -- "Them worthless ones" : emancipatory liberalism in Jamaica -- Imperial abandonment and hemispheric alternatives -- Uncle Bolívar's children -- "A purely 'mercial transaction.
Christopher Taylor shows why nineteenth-century British West Indian letters were remarkably un-British by exploring how West Indians reoriented their affective, cultural, and political worlds toward the Americas in response to the liberalization of the British Empire and the res…
Following the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, nineteenth-century liberal economic thinkers insisted that a globally hegemonic Britain would profit only by abandoning the formal empire. British West Indians across the divides of race and class understood that, …
Following the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of nations, nineteenth-century liberal economic thinkers insisted that a globally hegemonie Britain would profit only by abandoning the formal empire. British West Indians across the divides of race and class understood that, …
Christopher Taylor shows why nineteenth-century British West Indian letters were remarkably un-British by exploring how West Indians reoriented their affective, cultural, and political worlds toward the Americas in response to the liberalization of the British Empire and the res…