Bernard Attard
Biographic Data
| ID | 3840849 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernard Attard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernard |
| FAMILY NAME | Attard |
| SIGNATURE | ATTARD B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3828-3953 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Informal Empire
Ever since the publication of “The Imperialism of Free Trade” by John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson in 1953, “informal empire” has been a key term for historians. It has, however, always been contentious. The central issue was whether imperial historians were prepared to accept a new concept of empire. This article explains the paradox of informal empire by creating a stronger provenance for the term. Since the early nineteenth century, imperial …
A New Idea Each Morning
For an Australian in the first half of the twentieth century (albeit a new Australian who only spent ten years in his adopted country) the career of Frank Lidgett McDougall was sui generis. It took
Bridgeheads, ‘Colonial Places’ and the Queensland Financial Crisis of 1866
This article provides a new perspective on the links between British imperialism and metropolitan finance by showing how formal power reinforced ‘money power’ at a formative stage in the political development of the colony of Queensland. In 1866, despite the contraction of the bridgeheads of formal British authority in eastern Australia, local imperial representatives quickly aligned with private interests when British investments appeared to be …
Finance, Empire and the British World
Peer reviewed
The Power of Economic Ideas
Making the Colonial State
Warfare in New Zealand during the 1860s has recently been linked to the rise of the central state and growth of the national debt in that colony. This article argues that any parallel to the growth of the European fiscal‐military state is misguided. The fundamental cause of state centralisation and rising indebtedness was the same long‐run dynamic of colonial development active in all settler societies during the nineteenth century. The colonial …
New Estimates of Australian Public Borrowing and Capital Raised in London, 1849–1914
Current statistics of Australian public borrowing to 1914 suffer from several limits. On the basis of a comprehensive revision, an upward bias is shown in all the alternative time series of London borrowing, while statistics of local bond issues are derived for the first time. The new time series show the importance of the initial borrowing cycle during the 1850s and 1860s; the scale of debt repatriation from the mid‐1890s; the interaction betwee…
From Free-trade Imperialism to Structural Power
For Cain and Hopkins, the ‘structural power’ of gentlemanly capitalism was the most important means by which by British imperialism affected settler societies from the mid-nineteenth century. Like similar borrowers, self-governing colonies encountered this most directly by their participation in the London capital market. The potential consequences were illustrated by the failure of New Zealand's provinces to meet the market's standard of credit-…
The limits of influence
This article evaluates the old and the neonationalist interpretations of Australian commercial policy in the 1930s by examining the influence of a complex structure of pressure groups and political, bureaucratic and regulatory institutions on Australian commercial policy towards Britain in the three years after the Ottawa Conference of 1932. While agreeing with neonationalists like Kosmas Tsokhas that domestic factors were critical, it argues tha…
Andrew Fisher, the High Commissionership and the Collapse of Labor
The appointment of Andrew Fisher as High Commissioner in London in October 1915 might be regarded as an early, if familiar, example of the use of that office to reward or remove a failing senior politician. In a period when Australia's external interests were still focused almost exclusively on Great Britain, however, the High Commissionership was a unique and potentially important office. Although its holders were invariably political appointees…
The Bank of England and the origins of the Niemeyer mission, 1921–1930
Politics, Finance and Anglo‐Australian Relations
Informal Empire
Ever since the publication of “The Imperialism of Free Trade” by John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson in 1953, “informal empire” has been a key term for historians. It has, however, always been contentious. The central issue was whether imperial historians were prepared to accept a new concept of empire. This article explains the paradox of informal empire by creating a stronger provenance for the term. Since the early nineteenth century, imperial …
Finance, Empire and the British World
Peer reviewed
From Free-trade Imperialism to Structural Power
For Cain and Hopkins, the ‘structural power’ of gentlemanly capitalism was the most important means by which by British imperialism affected settler societies from the mid-nineteenth century. Like similar borrowers, self-governing colonies encountered this most directly by their participation in the London capital market. The potential consequences were illustrated by the failure of New Zealand's provinces to meet the market's standard of credit-…
Politics, Finance and Anglo‐Australian Relations
The Bank of England and the origins of the Niemeyer mission, 1921–1930
Andrew Fisher, the High Commissionership and the Collapse of Labor
The appointment of Andrew Fisher as High Commissioner in London in October 1915 might be regarded as an early, if familiar, example of the use of that office to reward or remove a failing senior politician. In a period when Australia's external interests were still focused almost exclusively on Great Britain, however, the High Commissionership was a unique and potentially important office. Although its holders were invariably political appointees…
The limits of influence
This article evaluates the old and the neonationalist interpretations of Australian commercial policy in the 1930s by examining the influence of a complex structure of pressure groups and political, bureaucratic and regulatory institutions on Australian commercial policy towards Britain in the three years after the Ottawa Conference of 1932. While agreeing with neonationalists like Kosmas Tsokhas that domestic factors were critical, it argues tha…
New Estimates of Australian Public Borrowing and Capital Raised in London, 1849–1914
Current statistics of Australian public borrowing to 1914 suffer from several limits. On the basis of a comprehensive revision, an upward bias is shown in all the alternative time series of London borrowing, while statistics of local bond issues are derived for the first time. The new time series show the importance of the initial borrowing cycle during the 1850s and 1860s; the scale of debt repatriation from the mid‐1890s; the interaction betwee…
From Free-trade Imperialism to Structural Power
For Cain and Hopkins, the ‘structural power’ of gentlemanly capitalism was the most important means by which by British imperialism affected settler societies from the mid-nineteenth century. Like similar borrowers, self-governing colonies encountered this most directly by their participation in the London capital market. The potential consequences were illustrated by the failure of New Zealand's provinces to meet the market's standard of credit-…
The Power of Economic Ideas
Making the Colonial State
Warfare in New Zealand during the 1860s has recently been linked to the rise of the central state and growth of the national debt in that colony. This article argues that any parallel to the growth of the European fiscal‐military state is misguided. The fundamental cause of state centralisation and rising indebtedness was the same long‐run dynamic of colonial development active in all settler societies during the nineteenth century. The colonial …
Bridgeheads, ‘Colonial Places’ and the Queensland Financial Crisis of 1866
This article provides a new perspective on the links between British imperialism and metropolitan finance by showing how formal power reinforced ‘money power’ at a formative stage in the political development of the colony of Queensland. In 1866, despite the contraction of the bridgeheads of formal British authority in eastern Australia, local imperial representatives quickly aligned with private interests when British investments appeared to be …
Finance, Empire and the British World
Peer reviewed
A New Idea Each Morning
For an Australian in the first half of the twentieth century (albeit a new Australian who only spent ten years in his adopted country) the career of Frank Lidgett McDougall was sui generis. It took
Informal Empire
Ever since the publication of “The Imperialism of Free Trade” by John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson in 1953, “informal empire” has been a key term for historians. It has, however, always been contentious. The central issue was whether imperial historians were prepared to accept a new concept of empire. This article explains the paradox of informal empire by creating a stronger provenance for the term. Since the early nineteenth century, imperial …
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