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Title: Managing British Colonial and Post-Colonial Development
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Crown Agents, 1914-1974
Author: David Sunderland
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 1843833018
EAN: 9781843833017
ISBN: 9781843833017
Publisher: The Boydell Press
Genre: History
Release Date: 21/06/2007
Description: A survey of the Crown Agents during a turbulent and eventful period.Britain's Crown Agents' Office is a unique development agency. Until the early 1960s, its clients were colonial governments, and, thereafter, the administrations of dependencies and newly independent countries. As well as purchasing a large proportion of its customers' imports, it provided them with finance and managed their investments. It was thus one of the largest buyers of goods in the UK, and, after, the Bank of England, the country's biggest financial institution. This book, the sequel to the author's Managing the British Empire: The Crown Agents, 1833 -1914 (Boydell, 2004), examines the Agents' various development roles, including the disastrous venture into secondary banking in 1967 which collapsed in 1974, then the largest bankruptcy in British financial history. The book contributes to a number of current debates in development studies, adds to our understanding of the London financial market and the competitiveness of British industry, and shows how present day aid agencies can learn much from the arrangements of the past.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 234mm
Item Length: 156mm
Item Weight: 1g
Release Year: 2007

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