By Shigeru Akita

British imperial heritage can now be noticeable as a bridge to international historical past. This learn attempts to resume the talk on British imperialism through combining Western and Asian historiography and developing a brand new worldwide historical past as an relief to the certainty of globalization within the past due twentieth and twenty first centuries. half One takes a predominantly metropolitan view of the globalizing forces unleashed by means of British imperialism; half specializes in the foreign order of East Asia and its reference to gentlemanly capitalism.

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In the cultural and social sphere, the effects of this were such that they helped to remove, or perhaps prevent the establishment of, much of the hostility and antipathy that still occasionally characterized relations in Britain between the traditional landowning elite and those who operated in the world of business, commerce and trade. In the Chesapeake, where the planter elite exhibited many of the behavioural, cultural and social characteristics of their metropolitan landowning counterparts,38 choice or necessity dictated that fortunes 34 Gentlemanly Capitalism, Imperialism and Global History were often established and then developed through a combination of tobacco planting, mixed farming, and a wide range of business enterprises including money-lending, land speculation, industrial activity, shipbuilding, and commercial operations.

From the very beginning of the expansionist process, those extending British maritime and commercial enterprise beyond European waters and into the wider world had directed their energies and resources towards the east as well as the west, and towards the south as well as the north. As a result, although the overseas footholds established by the British were often uncertain and sometimes short-lived, they gradually began to constitute an empire whose chief characteristics were its diversity and widely scattered distribution.

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