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Colonial inquiry : speech of the Honorable Francis Scott on moving for the appointment of a select committee on the 16th April, 1849.
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Year: 1849 Publisher: London T.W. Saunders

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America and the British colonies : an abstract of all the most useful information relative to the United States of America and the British colonies of Canada, the Cape of Good Hope, New South Wales, and Van Diemen's Island, exhibiting at one view the comparative advantages and disadvantages each country offers for emigration : collected from the most valuable and recent publications, to which are added a few notes and observations
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Year: 1820 Publisher: London Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker

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General statistics of the British Empire
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Year: 1836 Publisher: London B. Fellowes

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The first seven general reports of the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners, 1840 to 1847 : to which are prefixed the instructions to the commissioners from the secretary of state, dated 14 Jan. 1840 ...
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Year: 1848 Publisher: London Printed by W. Clowes, for H.M.S.O.

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The sugar question : a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Lord John Russell : with further observations on the means of averting the threatened ruin of the British sugar colonies, consequent on the admission of foreign sugars, and of increasing the sugar trade and revenue of Great Britain
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Year: 1847 Publisher: [England? s.n.]

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The economics of colonialism : Britain and Kenya, 1870 - 1930.
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ISBN: 0300016395 9780300016390 Year: 1974

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Colonial development : die Grundlegung moderner Entwicklungspolitik durch Grossbritannien 1919-1949
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ISBN: 3515041583 9783515041584 Year: 1985 Volume: 31 Publisher: Stuttgart Steiner

Hobson and imperialism : radicalism, new liberalism, and finance 1887-1938
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ISBN: 019820390X 0191719145 1280445092 1423766342 0191542180 9780198203902 Year: 2002 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

Mammon and the pursuit of empire : the economics of British imperialism
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ISBN: 0521357233 0521236126 9780521357234 Year: 1988 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

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Historians have so far made few attempts to assess directly the costs and benefits of Britain's investment in empire. This book presents answers to some of the key questions about the economics of imperialism: how large was the flow of finance to the empire? How great were the profits on empire investment? What were the social costs of maintaining the empire? Who received the profits, and who bore the costs? The authors show that colonial finance did not dominate British capital markets; returns from empire investment were not high in comparison to earnings in the domestic and foreign sectors; there is no evidence of continued exploitative profits; and empire profits were earned at a substantial cost to the taxpayer. They depict British imperialism as a mechanism to effect an income transfer from the tax-paying middle class to the elites in which the ownership of imperial enterprise was heavily concentrated, with some slight net transfer to the colonies in the process.

Colonialism and development
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ISBN: 0415020433 0415123089 0203329066 0203191838 1134977387 1280326549 9780415123082 9780415020435 9780203329061 9780203191835 9781134977338 9781134977376 9781134977383 1134977379 Year: 2002 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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British colonial rule of the tropics is the critical background to contemporary development issues. This study of Britain's economic and political relationship with its tropical colonies provides detailed analyses of trade and policy. The considerations of past successes and failures elucidate current opportunities and developments. No other book covers this broad topic with such detail and clarity.

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