J Forbes Munro
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 230000 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J Forbes Munro |
| NOMBRES | J Forbes |
| APELLIDO | Munro |
| FIRMA | MUNRO J F |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Glasgow |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 173 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1966 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The empire in one city
The empire in one city?: Liverpool's inconvenient imperial past, edited by Sheryllyne Haggerty, Anthony Webster and Nicholas J. White, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2008, xiv + 237 pp, i
Maritime Enterprise and Empire
The Gilt of Illusion”
African Shipping
Scottish Overseas Enterprise and the Lure of London
Shipping Subsidies and Railway Guarantees
This article reassesses Sir William Mackinnon's role in the evolution of Victorian imperialism in Eastern Africa. It rejects the view that Mackinnon's activities in Eastern Africa were motivated by a desire for self-glorification and attempts, by contrast, to demonstrate the relevance of business considerations. A search for shipping subsidies and railway guarantees, spreading out from British India, accompanied the Mackinnon Group's development …
The Development of Capitalism in Northern Nigeria
Journal Article The Development of Capitalism in Northern Nigeria Get access The Development of Capitalism in Northern Nigeria, by Robert Shenton. James Currey, London, 1986. xviii+169pp. £16.50hardback, £7.95 paerback. ISBN O85255 002 2 and 0 85255 003 0. J.FORBES MUNRO J.FORBES MUNRO University of Glasgow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 86, Issue 342, January 1987, Pages 124–125, …
Britain in Tropical Africa 1880-1960
Britain in Tropical Africa, 1880-1960
Britain in Tropical Africa, 1880-1960
Crafts, Industry and Employment
THE 'open-economy' model accepted by British policy-makers and businessmen for most of the colonial period assumed that growth and development in Tropical Africa would be achieved through trade with the world in general, and with Britain in particular, in a complementary exchange of primary products against manufactures. Such a relationship would not necessarily preclude the emergence of some modern manufacturing industry in Africa, as had indeed…
The State and the Economy
THE colonial state had a central role in the economic transformation of Tropical Africa, interpreting the broad policy guidelines set out by metropolitan governments and applying them to specific social and ecological conditions. As agents of the metropolitan state, the colonial administrations were expected to operate within the framework of official perceptions about the needs and interests of the British and ‘imperial’ economies, and at the ve…
The ‘Peasant’ Economies
UNDER British rule the activities of many African cultivators became more externally oriented than before. Among Tropical Africa’s principal exports (Table IV), the palm oil and kernels, the cocoa and the groundnuts of Nigeria, Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast, the cotton and much of the coffee of Uganda and Tanganyika, and the tobacco of Nyasaland came from African farms which were mostly, although not exclusively, small-holdings worked by family…
The ‘Settler-Mining’ Economies
SOUTHERN Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia and Kenya constitute a distinctive category within Britain’s colonial territories — as export economies in which production for world markets was conducted principally by expatriate- and immigrant-owned mining and agricultural enterprises. These three territories attracted the largest European immigration into British Tropical African (Table V), in the shape of fragments of Anglo-South African society scattere…
Origins of British Rule
WHY did Britain acquire a scattering of colonial possessions in Tropical Africa, annexing new territories and enlarging existing ones during the last quarter of the nineteenth century? What was the extent and nature of the interplay between colonialism and capitalism (or government and business) in the initial emergence of British rule? Such questions have long fascinated historians, not least because of the need to fit Africa into general explan…
Conclusions
THE preceding pages have attempted to survey what is known, and what has been written, about the economic relationships between Britain and Tropical Africa and about the British impact upon the material life of a major world region. It will have become clear that there is no closely joined debate over the broad contours of these matters. Discussion has been liveliest and most productive, throwing up fresh evidence, pushing forward theoretical per…
Trade, Investment and Expatriate Business
BRITAIN acquired colonial possessions in Tropical Africa for essentially defensive reasons: to ensure, in the face of the neo-mercantilist tendencies of other European states, that some parts of the African continent would remain open to British trade and investment. For a Britain committed to free trade at home and abroad, the ideal colony was an open economy, actively engaged in world trade through the exporting of agricultural and mineral prod…
Themes and Approaches
TROPICAL Africa, the lands lying between the Sahara desert and the Limpopo river, sometimes also regarded as 'Black Africa' between the Arab North and the white-ruled South, historically experienced both governance by British agencies and penetration by British business. Trade and investment, however, were never wholly synonymous with, or dependent upon, the exercise of colonial administration. British capitalism's links with the coastal areas of…
Britain in Tropical Africa, 1880–1960
The Making of Contemporary Africa
Journal Article The Making of Contemporary Africa: The Development of African Society since 1800 Get access The Making of Contemporary Africa: The Development of African Society since 1800, by Bill Freund. London: Macmillan Press, 1984. xiv+338 pp. £18 (£6.95 paperback). J. FORBES MUNRO J. FORBES MUNRO University of Glasgow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 83, Issue 333, October 1984…
The Settler Economies
Imperialism and East Africa. Volume 1
British Rubber Companies in East Africa Before the First World War
Until the Second World War, at least, tropical Africa constituted harsh and difficult terrain for Western capitalism — a region where financial loss, erosion of the capital base and ignominious failure were as likely for the expatriate or metropolitan firm as profitability or growth of turnover. This simple fact has been obscured in recent years both by the practice of business history which, in Africa as elsewhere, tends to concentrate upon the …
From Slave to Squatters
Monopolists and Speculators
During the classical period of colonialism, from the 1890s to the 1940s, much private Western investment in Africa was conducted through investment waves – short-lived booms related to demands for, and prices of, particular raw materials. One such burst of foreign financial interest occurred between 1905 and 1914 when, against the background of a climacteric in tropical rubber, 55 companies with a total nominal capital of £5 9 million were floate…
Carrier Corps Recruitment in the British East Africa Protectorate 1914–1918
The outbreak of the First World War made unprecedented demands on the manpower resources of the British East Africa Protectorate (Kenya). To meet military requirements for labour, the colonial government followed a policy of recruitment of Africans, in which there was initially some confusion over method and the degree to which compulsion could be utilized. Criticism of the policy by European settlers and the press, part of a larger agitation for…
Monopolists and Speculators
During the classical period of colonialism, from the 1890s to the 1940s, much private Western investment in Africa was conducted through investment waves – short-lived booms related to demands for, and prices of, particular raw materials. One such burst of foreign financial interest occurred between 1905 and 1914 when, against the background of a climacteric in tropical rubber, 55 companies with a total nominal capital of £5 9 million were floate…
Migrations of the Bantu-Speaking Peoples of the Eastern Kenya Highlands
Historians have frequently included the Bantu-speaking peoples of the eastern Kenya Highlands—Kikuyu, Embu, Mbere, Kamba, Meru, etc.—in the general migrations of the North Eastern Bantu from Shungwaya. The most authoritative statement in support of this view is set out in H. E. Lambert's The Systems of Land Tenure in the Kikuyu Land Unit: Part 1, History of the Tribal Occupation of the Land . However, only the Meru have oral traditions pointing t…
British Rubber Companies in East Africa Before the First World War
Until the Second World War, at least, tropical Africa constituted harsh and difficult terrain for Western capitalism — a region where financial loss, erosion of the capital base and ignominious failure were as likely for the expatriate or metropolitan firm as profitability or growth of turnover. This simple fact has been obscured in recent years both by the practice of business history which, in Africa as elsewhere, tends to concentrate upon the …
Unilever Overseas. The Anatomy of a Multinational
Journal Article Unilever Overseas. The Anatomy of a Multinational Get access Unilever Overseas. The Anatomy of a Multinational. By D. K. FIELDHOUSE. (London: Groom Helm, 1978. Pp. vii + 620. £25.00.) J. Forbes Munro J. Forbes Munro University of Glasgow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 89, Issue 355, 1 September 1979, Pages 717–719, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231905 Published: 01 …
Africa and the International Economy, 1800-1960
Africa and the International Economy 1800-1960
Colonial Rule and the Kamba
The Colonial Transformation of Kenya
Britain in Tropical Africa, 1880–1960
The Settler Economies
An Economic History of Kenya and Uganda, 1800-1970
Colonial Rule and the Kamba
African Shipping
Shipping Subsidies and Railway Guarantees
This article reassesses Sir William Mackinnon's role in the evolution of Victorian imperialism in Eastern Africa. It rejects the view that Mackinnon's activities in Eastern Africa were motivated by a desire for self-glorification and attempts, by contrast, to demonstrate the relevance of business considerations. A search for shipping subsidies and railway guarantees, spreading out from British India, accompanied the Mackinnon Group's development …
Britain in Tropical Africa 1880-1960
Carrier Corps Recruitment in the British East Africa Protectorate 1914–1918
The outbreak of the First World War made unprecedented demands on the manpower resources of the British East Africa Protectorate (Kenya). To meet military requirements for labour, the colonial government followed a policy of recruitment of Africans, in which there was initially some confusion over method and the degree to which compulsion could be utilized. Criticism of the policy by European settlers and the press, part of a larger agitation for…
Migrations of the Bantu-Speaking Peoples of the Eastern Kenya Highlands
Historians have frequently included the Bantu-speaking peoples of the eastern Kenya Highlands—Kikuyu, Embu, Mbere, Kamba, Meru, etc.—in the general migrations of the North Eastern Bantu from Shungwaya. The most authoritative statement in support of this view is set out in H. E. Lambert's The Systems of Land Tenure in the Kikuyu Land Unit: Part 1, History of the Tribal Occupation of the Land . However, only the Meru have oral traditions pointing t…
Land and Politics in Kenya
Short Notices
Colonial Rule and the Kamba
The Colonial Transformation of Kenya
An Economic History of Kenya and Uganda, 1800-1970
Colonialism in Africa, 1870-1960. Vol. 4
Africa and the International Economy, 1800-1960
Colonial Rule and the Kamba
Africa and the International Economy 1800-1960
Africa and the International Economy, 1800-1960
On Writing African History Prematurely / De l'histoire africaine écrite prématurément
Short Notices
Unilever Overseas. The Anatomy of a Multinational
Journal Article Unilever Overseas. The Anatomy of a Multinational Get access Unilever Overseas. The Anatomy of a Multinational. By D. K. FIELDHOUSE. (London: Groom Helm, 1978. Pp. vii + 620. £25.00.) J. Forbes Munro J. Forbes Munro University of Glasgow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 89, Issue 355, 1 September 1979, Pages 717–719, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231905 Published: 01 …
Monopolists and Speculators
During the classical period of colonialism, from the 1890s to the 1940s, much private Western investment in Africa was conducted through investment waves – short-lived booms related to demands for, and prices of, particular raw materials. One such burst of foreign financial interest occurred between 1905 and 1914 when, against the background of a climacteric in tropical rubber, 55 companies with a total nominal capital of £5 9 million were floate…
Economic Development and Urban Migration
From Slave to Squatters
Imperialism and East Africa. Volume 1
British Rubber Companies in East Africa Before the First World War
Until the Second World War, at least, tropical Africa constituted harsh and difficult terrain for Western capitalism — a region where financial loss, erosion of the capital base and ignominious failure were as likely for the expatriate or metropolitan firm as profitability or growth of turnover. This simple fact has been obscured in recent years both by the practice of business history which, in Africa as elsewhere, tends to concentrate upon the …
Crafts, Industry and Employment
THE 'open-economy' model accepted by British policy-makers and businessmen for most of the colonial period assumed that growth and development in Tropical Africa would be achieved through trade with the world in general, and with Britain in particular, in a complementary exchange of primary products against manufactures. Such a relationship would not necessarily preclude the emergence of some modern manufacturing industry in Africa, as had indeed…
The State and the Economy
THE colonial state had a central role in the economic transformation of Tropical Africa, interpreting the broad policy guidelines set out by metropolitan governments and applying them to specific social and ecological conditions. As agents of the metropolitan state, the colonial administrations were expected to operate within the framework of official perceptions about the needs and interests of the British and ‘imperial’ economies, and at the ve…
The ‘Peasant’ Economies
UNDER British rule the activities of many African cultivators became more externally oriented than before. Among Tropical Africa’s principal exports (Table IV), the palm oil and kernels, the cocoa and the groundnuts of Nigeria, Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast, the cotton and much of the coffee of Uganda and Tanganyika, and the tobacco of Nyasaland came from African farms which were mostly, although not exclusively, small-holdings worked by family…
The ‘Settler-Mining’ Economies
SOUTHERN Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia and Kenya constitute a distinctive category within Britain’s colonial territories — as export economies in which production for world markets was conducted principally by expatriate- and immigrant-owned mining and agricultural enterprises. These three territories attracted the largest European immigration into British Tropical African (Table V), in the shape of fragments of Anglo-South African society scattere…
Origins of British Rule
WHY did Britain acquire a scattering of colonial possessions in Tropical Africa, annexing new territories and enlarging existing ones during the last quarter of the nineteenth century? What was the extent and nature of the interplay between colonialism and capitalism (or government and business) in the initial emergence of British rule? Such questions have long fascinated historians, not least because of the need to fit Africa into general explan…
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