Peter Cain
Biographic Data
| ID | 3952690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Cain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Cain |
| SIGNATURE | CAIN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sheffield Hallam University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8580-9391 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 213 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 60 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Liberalism and the Empire
The eight books reprinted in this set played an important role in defining attitudes and expectations about imperialism on the British Left in the twentieth century. They are vital in understanding the transition from the liberal anti-imperialism of the nineteenth century to the more overtly socialist critiques of the twentieth.
Empire and Its Critics, 1899-1939
Colonial and Foreign Policy
Democracy After the War
The eight books reprinted in this set played an important role in defining attitudes and expectations about imperialism on the British Left in the twentieth century. They are vital in understanding the transition from the liberal anti-imperialism of the nineteenth century to the more overtly socialist critiques of the twentieth
Labour and the Empire
The eight books reprinted in this set played an important role in defining attitudes and expectations about imperialism on the British Left in the twentieth century. They are vital in understanding the transition from the liberal anti-imperialism of the nineteenth century to the more overtly socialist critiques of the twentieth
British Imperialism
A milestone in the understanding of British history and imperialism, this ground-breaking book radically reinterprets the course of modern economic development and the causes of overseas expansion during the past three centuries. Employing their concept of 'gentlemanly capitalism', the authors draw imperial and domestic British history together to show how the shape of the nation and its economy depended on international and imperial ties, and ho…
Afterword
Character, ‘Ordered Liberty’, and the Mission to Civilise
In a path-breaking study of the thought of Sir Henry Maine, Karuna Mantena has recently argued that the overthrow, in the second half of the nineteenth century, of the liberal imperialism promoted by Macaulay and James Mill meant that the ‘civilising mission’ became a mere alibi for continued British rule in the empire and that it was drained of all moral content. The article demonstrates, using a wide range of contemporary sources, that, althoug…
The Economics and Ethics of British Imperialism
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Bentham and the Development of the British Critique of Colonialism
This article examines Bentham's contribution to anti-colonial thought in the context of the development of the British radical movement that attacked colonialism on the grounds that it advantaged what Bentham called the ‘Few’ at the expense of the ‘Many’. It shows that Bentham was influenced as much by Josiah Tucker and James Anderson as by Adam Smith. Bentham's early economic critique is examined, and the sharp changes in his arguments after 180…
Education, Income and Status
The importance of the amateur element in English and Welsh cricket during the nineteenth and early twentieth century is well known. However, there is not much in-depth information available on the economic, social and educational background of amateur cricketers. This article tries to fill this gap using the information gleaned from a large sample of obituaries, mainly those printed in Wisden. These sources have their weaknesses, which are analys…
State and Market in Victorian Britain
Empire and the Languages of Character and Virtue in Later Victorian and Edwardian Britain
Considerable attention has been paid to the ideas of critics of the British Empire in the period of its most rapid expansion and rather less to the views of those who supported it strongly. This article investigates the arguments of what are called “ultra-imperialists”, showing how they used the language of character, stiffened by elements from earlier languages of virtue, to justify the possession of empire. They argued that character had been c…
Capitalism, Aristocracy and Empire
The recent revival of interest in the relationship between aristocratic and gentlemanly elites and the evolution of the British empire suggests the need for a revaluation of some of the ‘classical’ theorists of imperialism whom a number of prominent historians of British imperialism have acknowledged as important precursors. The major figures considered here are: Hobson, whose roots in British anti-aristocratic radicalism are being re-examined at…
Mid‐Victorian Imperialists
Rethinking nineteenth-century liberalism
Character and imperialism
The main purpose of the article is to try to show how British governing elites constructed their world through a complex mental grid summed up in the word 'character' and how this impacted upon imperial governance. The latter theme is then illustrated through a detailed study of the financial policies of the small cadre of British officials who controlled Egyptian government in this period. They used the language of character to justify being in …
J. Forbes Munro, Maritime Enterprise and Empire
Hobson and Imperialism
Managing the Business of Empire
Managing the Business of Empire: Essays in honour of David Fieldhouse Managing the Business of Empire: Essays in honour of David Fieldhouse, edited by Peter Burroughs and A. J. Stockwell. London: Frank Cass, 1998. 262 pages. £32.00 hardback. ISBN 0-7146-4826-4 (cloth). PETER CAIN PETER CAIN Sheffield Hallam University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 98, Issue 392, July 1999, Pages 4…
Was it Worth Having? the British Empire 1850–1950
The question of whether the possession of an empire under a regime of free trade was beneficial or not to Britain has become a serious matter of dispute in recent years amongst British and American economic historians. Nonetheless, as some of them recognise, the question they are asking is hardly a novel one: they are often consciously reviving, in a more sophisticated form, a controversy which was already dividing contemporaries in Britain at th…
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access PETER CAIN PETER CAIN Sheffield Hallam University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 449, November 1997, Pages 1349–1350, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.449.1349 Published: 01 November 1997
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access PETER CAIN PETER CAIN Sheffield Hallam University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 448, September 1997, Pages 1006-b–1008, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.448.1006-b Published: 01 September 1997
British Capitalism and the State
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access PETER CAIN PETER CAIN University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 440, February 1996, Pages 248–249, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.440.248 Published: 01 February 1996
Colonialism and Development
Gentlemanly Capitalism and British Expansion Overseas I. The Old Colonial System, 1688-1850
In an earlier survey of the history of imperialism we suggested that closer attention should be given to the connexions between the slow and uncertain development of industry and the pace and direction of overseas expansion.1 We also argued that insufficient regard had been paid to the influence of non-industrial forms of capitalism on both overseas development and imperial policy. In the course of that survey, the former problem was dealt with i…
Gentlemanly capitalism and British expansion overseas II
T he forces represented by what we have termed gentlemanly capitalism rose to prominence in the late seventeenth century. 1 At their centre stood the powerful landed interest which combined, in the manner of samurai, the prestige of inherited social position with progressive, market-oriented ambitions. Closely associated with the landed elite, and offering it both support and deference, were the men of the emerging service sector, whose innovatio…
J. A. Hobson, financial capitalism and imperialism in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
(1985). J. A. Hobson, financial capitalism and imperialism in Late Victorian and Edwardian England. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 13, Money, Finance and Empire, pp. 1-27
Theories of Imperialism
Character and imperialism
The main purpose of the article is to try to show how British governing elites constructed their world through a complex mental grid summed up in the word 'character' and how this impacted upon imperial governance. The latter theme is then illustrated through a detailed study of the financial policies of the small cadre of British officials who controlled Egyptian government in this period. They used the language of character to justify being in …
Managing the Business of Empire
Managing the Business of Empire: Essays in honour of David Fieldhouse Managing the Business of Empire: Essays in honour of David Fieldhouse, edited by Peter Burroughs and A. J. Stockwell. London: Frank Cass, 1998. 262 pages. £32.00 hardback. ISBN 0-7146-4826-4 (cloth). PETER CAIN PETER CAIN Sheffield Hallam University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 98, Issue 392, July 1999, Pages 4…
The Political Economy of British Expansion Overseas, 1750-1914
J. A. Hobson, Cobdenism, and the Radical Theory of Economic Imperialism, 1898-1914
Railway Combination and Government, 1900-1914
W HIS article describes an attempt made by several large railway companies to combine and the reaction of the government, parliament, and public opinion to this attempt. To do this thoroughly means first taking a close look at the structure of railway enterprise and the position of rail transport in the national economy at the beginning of the century, for without this it is difficult to understand why the combination movement should have occurre…
Empire and the Languages of Character and Virtue in Later Victorian and Edwardian Britain
Considerable attention has been paid to the ideas of critics of the British Empire in the period of its most rapid expansion and rather less to the views of those who supported it strongly. This article investigates the arguments of what are called “ultra-imperialists”, showing how they used the language of character, stiffened by elements from earlier languages of virtue, to justify the possession of empire. They argued that character had been c…
The Railway in Town and Country 1830-1914
Bentham and the Development of the British Critique of Colonialism
This article examines Bentham's contribution to anti-colonial thought in the context of the development of the British radical movement that attacked colonialism on the grounds that it advantaged what Bentham called the ‘Few’ at the expense of the ‘Many’. It shows that Bentham was influenced as much by Josiah Tucker and James Anderson as by Adam Smith. Bentham's early economic critique is examined, and the sharp changes in his arguments after 180…
The Third Portuguese Empire, 1825-1975
Labour and the Empire
The eight books reprinted in this set played an important role in defining attitudes and expectations about imperialism on the British Left in the twentieth century. They are vital in understanding the transition from the liberal anti-imperialism of the nineteenth century to the more overtly socialist critiques of the twentieth
Hobson, Wilshire, and the Capitalist Theory of Capitalist Imperialism
Research Article| September 01 1985 Hobson, Wilshire, and the Capitalist Theory of Capitalist Imperialism Peter J. Cain Peter J. Cain 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1985) 17 (3): 455–460. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-17-3-455 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Peter J. Cain; Hobson, Wilshire, and the Capitalist Theory of Capitalist Imperialism. H…
Character, ‘Ordered Liberty’, and the Mission to Civilise
In a path-breaking study of the thought of Sir Henry Maine, Karuna Mantena has recently argued that the overthrow, in the second half of the nineteenth century, of the liberal imperialism promoted by Macaulay and James Mill meant that the ‘civilising mission’ became a mere alibi for continued British rule in the empire and that it was drained of all moral content. The article demonstrates, using a wide range of contemporary sources, that, althoug…
Capitalism, Aristocracy and Empire
The recent revival of interest in the relationship between aristocratic and gentlemanly elites and the evolution of the British empire suggests the need for a revaluation of some of the ‘classical’ theorists of imperialism whom a number of prominent historians of British imperialism have acknowledged as important precursors. The major figures considered here are: Hobson, whose roots in British anti-aristocratic radicalism are being re-examined at…
Joseph A. Schumpeter
Journal Article Joseph A. Schumpeter: His Life and Work. Joseph Schumpeter: Scholar, Teacher and Politician. Get access Joseph A. Schumpeter: His Life and Work. By Richard Swedberg. (Oxford: Polity Press, 1991. Pp. 293. £35.00 hardback. ISBN 0 7456 0792 6.)Joseph Schumpeter: Scholar, Teacher and Politician. By Eduard Marz. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1991. Pp. xx + 204. £22.50, US $35.00 hardback. ISBN 0 300 03876 3.) Peter Cain…
Private Enterprise or Public Utility
Was it Worth Having? the British Empire 1850–1950
The question of whether the possession of an empire under a regime of free trade was beneficial or not to Britain has become a serious matter of dispute in recent years amongst British and American economic historians. Nonetheless, as some of them recognise, the question they are asking is hardly a novel one: they are often consciously reviving, in a more sophisticated form, a controversy which was already dividing contemporaries in Britain at th…
Gentlemanly Imperialism at Work
The British Railway Rates Problem 1894–1913
The Economics and Ethics of British Imperialism
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British Capitalism and the State
Railway Combination and Government, 1900-1914
W HIS article describes an attempt made by several large railway companies to combine and the reaction of the government, parliament, and public opinion to this attempt. To do this thoroughly means first taking a close look at the structure of railway enterprise and the position of rail transport in the national economy at the beginning of the century, for without this it is difficult to understand why the combination movement should have occurre…
Traders versus Railways the Genesis of the Railway and Canal Traffic Act of 1894
European Expansion Overseas 1830–1914
J. A. Hobson, Cobdenism, and the Radical Theory of Economic Imperialism, 1898-1914
The British Railway Rates Problem 1894–1913
International Trade and Economic Development in the Work of J. A. Hobson Before 1914
Research Article| September 01 1979 International Trade and Economic Development in the Work of J. A. Hobson Before 1914 P. J. Cain P. J. Cain Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1979) 11 (3): 406–424. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-11-3-406 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation P. J. Cain; International Trade and Economic Developmen…
Conclusions and Suggestions
THERE is evidently something to be said for Gallagher and Robinson’s interpretation of imperial expansion after 1875. Strategic motives — the defence of our existing empire in the East — did have a powerful influence on the decision to expand in East Africa, South Africa and the Middle East; and there is no doubt that many extensions of formal control were undertaken as a last resort when every informal expedient had been exhausted
Economic Foundations of British Overseas Expansion 1815–1914
Private Enterprise or Public Utility
The Political Economy of British Expansion Overseas, 1750-1914
Hobson's Developing Theory of Imperialism
Research in Economic History. Vol. 6
Professor McCloskey on British free trade, 1841–1881
The Pattern of Imperialism
British Economists and the Empire
Theories of Imperialism
J. A. Hobson, financial capitalism and imperialism in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
(1985). J. A. Hobson, financial capitalism and imperialism in Late Victorian and Edwardian England. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 13, Money, Finance and Empire, pp. 1-27
Hobson, Wilshire, and the Capitalist Theory of Capitalist Imperialism
Research Article| September 01 1985 Hobson, Wilshire, and the Capitalist Theory of Capitalist Imperialism Peter J. Cain Peter J. Cain 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1985) 17 (3): 455–460. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-17-3-455 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Peter J. Cain; Hobson, Wilshire, and the Capitalist Theory of Capitalist Imperialism. H…
Gentlemanly Capitalism and British Expansion Overseas I. The Old Colonial System, 1688-1850
In an earlier survey of the history of imperialism we suggested that closer attention should be given to the connexions between the slow and uncertain development of industry and the pace and direction of overseas expansion.1 We also argued that insufficient regard had been paid to the influence of non-industrial forms of capitalism on both overseas development and imperial policy. In the course of that survey, the former problem was dealt with i…
The Third Portuguese Empire, 1825-1975
Bibliography of Transport History in other Periodicals, 1985–86
Imperialism and after
Gentlemanly capitalism and British expansion overseas II
T he forces represented by what we have termed gentlemanly capitalism rose to prominence in the late seventeenth century. 1 At their centre stood the powerful landed interest which combined, in the manner of samurai, the prestige of inherited social position with progressive, market-oriented ambitions. Closely associated with the landed elite, and offering it both support and deference, were the men of the emerging service sector, whose innovatio…
The Railway in Town and Country 1830-1914 by Jack Simmons
308 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE thus denying the islanders good anchorages as well. So the settlers of these unpromising places were from the beginning pushed to develop boats with particular characteristics. They had to be shoal-draft and capable of being pulled ashore; hulls needed to be easily driven be cause summer morning calms meant rowing for miles out to the fish ing grounds; getting back home in a northwesterly gale required an…
The Railway in Town and Country 1830-1914
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