Nicholas J White
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 641964 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nicholas J White |
| PRENOMES | Nicholas J |
| SOBRENOME | White |
| ASSINATURA | WHITE N J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Liverpool John Moores University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1897-1978 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 101 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1985 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Recharting ‘informal empire’
Concepts of “informal empire” and the “imperialism of free trade”, and their relationship to urbanization, are reconsidered in port-and-maritime contexts for the later-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Blending Imperial-cum-Global History and Urban Geography, the relationship between the maritime cosmopolises of Liverpool and Shanghai through the Blue Funnel Line is spotlighted. Merseyside-based and pioneering steamship services between B…
A comparison of national seasonal influenza treatment guidelines across the Asia Pacific region
Seasonal influenza leads to 2–3 million infections and up to 650,000 global deaths annually, with particularly high mortality in Asia and relatively low annual vaccination rates for prevention. Relatively lower attention is paid to antiviral treatment as a facet of influenza response strategy both in research and national policy. This study compares national influenza treatment guidelines across countries in the Asia Pacific region, and assesses …
A mixed methods study investigating factors affecting adherence to Plasmodium vivax malaria primaquine radical cure regimens among migrants along the Myanmar-Thailand border
Background The countries within the Greater Mekong Region of Southeast Asia have pledged to eliminate malaria by 2030. Elimination of Plasmodium vivax malaria is challenging as it requires radical cure to prevent relapse. Understanding and facilitating adherence to primaquine radical cure regimens is necessary for malaria elimination. Methods A convergent parallel mixed methods study was conducted to investigate the barriers to and facilitators f…
Comparison of WHO versus national Covid-19 therapeutic guidelines across the world
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic affected all WHO member states. We compared and contrasted the COVID-19 treatment guidelines of each member state with the WHO COVID-19 therapeutic guidelines. METHODS: Ministries of Health or accessed National Infectious Disease websites and other relevant bodies and experts were contacted to obtain national guidelines (NGs) for COVID-19 treatment. NGs were included only if they delineated specific pharmacologic…
Antimalarial mass drug administration in large populations and the evolution of drug resistance
Mass drug administration (MDA) with antimalarials has been shown to reduce prevalence and interrupt transmission in small populations, in populations with reliable access to antimalarial drugs, and in populations where sustained improvements in diagnosis and treatment are possible. In addition, when MDA is effective it eliminates both drug-resistant parasites and drug-sensitive parasites, which has the long-term benefit of extending the useful th…
Stopping prereferral rectal artesunate — a grave error
Contribution of genetic factors to high rates of neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia on the Thailand-Myanmar border
Very high unconjugated bilirubin plasma concentrations in neonates (neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia; NH) may cause neurologic damage (kernicterus). Both increased red blood cell turn-over and immaturity of hepatic glucuronidation contribute to neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia. The incidence of NH requiring phototherapy during the first week of life on the Thailand-Myanmar border is high (approximately 25%). On the Thailand-Myanmar border we investigated…
Definitions matter
Therapeutic efficacy in COVID-19 is dependent upon disease severity (treatment effect heterogeneity). Unfortunately, definitions of severity vary widely. This compromises the meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and the therapeutic guidelines derived from them. The World Health Organisation ‘living’ guidelines for the treatment of COVID-19 are based on a network meta-analysis (NMA) of published RCTs. We reviewed the 81 studies inc…
Singapore – Two Hundred Years of the Lion City
Shipping and Globalization in the Post-War Era
Without shipping and its ability to forge connections and networks of a global reach, the modern world would look very different. This introductory chapter provides a broad sketch of the relationship between shippingshipping and globalization in the post-war era. Shipping was both an example and an engine of globalization in this period. It was among the first industries exposed to fierce globalized competition, and the shipping industry experien…
Conclusion
The concluding chapter sets the findings of the individual chapters into the wider context of global history and the history of globalization. It argues that shipping as both an engine and an example of globalizing processes helps understand and illustrate the dynamics and periodization of globalization, in particular through its entanglements with the transformation of states and borders over the post-war period. This is examined first through a…
Shipping and Globalization in the Post-War Era
This open access volume uses interdisciplinary approaches to present new research on shipping and globalization over the last sixty years, with a focus on linkages between the shipping industry and the wider economy and society, considering the impact this has had upon the modern world.
Economic Opportunity and Strategic Dilemma in Colonial Development
The importance of Malaya’s iron ore has been downgraded from both an economic and geo-strategic perspective. Under colonial administration, iron-ore mines owned and operated by Japanese enterprises and individuals, and the resultant exports to Japan, were central to economic development in the east-coast states of the peninsula. But this also made British Malaya a site of international contestation as Anglo–Japanese relations became estranged in …
From World City to the World in One City
From World City to the World in One City: Liverpool through Malay Lives, by Tim Bunnell." The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 47(1), pp. 190–191
Cold War and Decolonisation
This study of Australia’s growing commitment to Southeast Asia in the 1950s and 1960s will interest imperial historians given A. G. Hopkins’s recent article in this journal (‘Globalisation and Deco
Ungentlemanly capitalism’
John Hay was one of Britain’s leading colonial capitalists, building his career from the 1900s to the 1960s in Malaya’s plantation industry. He became the leading spokesperson for the British rubber growers, and played a major role in the formulation of international restriction schemes during the 1930s. Hay was a remarkable entrepreneurial talent, consolidating his corporate power through the premiere Malayan agency house, Guthrie & Co. This in …
Imperial Business Interests, Decolonization, and Post-Colonial Diversification
This chapter scrutinizes the ways in which corporations with substantial colonial interests both anticipated and reacted to decolonization. In particular, it focuses on patterns of co-operation with post-colonial governments and the strategies of commercial diversification adopted in order to conserve regional stakes in emerging economies. Temporarily exhilarated by the Second Colonial Occupation as European imperial regimes refortified the siege…
The Settlement of Decolonization and Post-Colonial Economic Development
Despite impressive growth in the early twenty-first century, Indonesia’s economic performance in the post-colonial era lagged behind that of its neighbours in Malaysia and Singapore. The different development paths chosen, particularly in the treatment of foreign (and, especially, ex-colonial) investment, were central to this—Indonesia’s rejection of Western capital in the 1950s and 1960s, and continued suspicion of foreign economic influence in …
The International Order of Asia in the 1930s and 1950s
Contents: Introduction: the international order of Asia in the 1930s and 1950s: contexts, hypotheses and scope, Shigeru Akita and Nicholas J. White Part 1 The International Order of Asia, the British Empire and the Sterling Area: British economic interests and the international order of Asia in the 1930s, Shigeru Akita British imperialism in Asia and Anglo-Japanese relations, 1930s-1950s, Yoichi Kibata The formation of an industrialization-orient…
Malaysia's Defeat of Armed Communism
Malaysia’s Second Emergency is a little known phenomenon even in Malaysia itself where, as the author points out, the nation-building project combined with archival lacunae has induced historical a
Holding Back the Tide
In analysing debates about the complementarity of British gentlemanly capitalism and the growth of intra-Asian trade, this chapter spotlights Liverpool-based shipping interests in southern and eastern Asia from the 1920s to the 1970s.1 After establishing the significance of Asian trade for twentieth-century Liverpool, the analysis addresses the degree to which Liverpool’s shipping elite slotted into gentlemanly capitalism: the amalgam of London-c…
The Killer Angels , Popular Memory, and the Battle of Gettysburg Sesquicentennial
Surviving Sukarno
Drawing principally upon a rich vein of previously unexploited business records, this paper analyses the experience of British firms in Indonesia between the achievement of independence and the beginnings of the Suharto regime. As in The Netherlands East Indies, British enterprises occupied a significant position in post-colonial Indonesia in plantations, oil extraction, shipping, banking, the import-export trade, and manufacturing. After the nat…
Ferry off the Mersey’
Liverpool remained the UK's second port into the late 1960s, and, at the same time, its overseas trade remained highly skewed towards the empire–Commonwealth. By the 1980s, however, Merseyside had become almost a byword for British economic decay. Through focusing upon Liverpool's leading shipping group – the Blue Funnel/Elder Dempster complex, representing the premiere UK lines to eastern Asia and western Africa – this article provides a testing…
Reconstructing Europe through Rejuvenating Empire
In November 1947, Stafford Cripps, the UK’s Minister for Economic Affairs, told a conference of Britain’s governors in Africa that with the sterling area’s dollar deficit running at £600 to £700 million a year ‘we should increase out of all recognition the tempo of African economic development’, boosting production of anything that ‘will save dollars or will sell in a dollar market’. 1 Here was evidence that in the UK’s post-war reconstruction cr…
The Beginnings of Crony Capitalism
The term 'crony capitalism' describes the close relationship between the state and big business in contemporary Southeast Asia. Yoshihara argued in 1988 that cronyism produced an entrepreneurially weak, ersatz capitalism. Crony capitalists were 'private-sector businessmen who benefit[ed] enormously from close relations' with leading officials and politicians, obtaining 'not only protection from foreign competition, but also concessions, licences,…
The business and the politics of decolonization
In synthesizing recent studies of the relationships between British businesses and British governments during decolonization, the article takes issue with the 'gentlemanly capitalism' paradigm. Imperial business and imperial government did not represent a cohesive elite; private and public agencies were frequently divided on key tenets of decolonization strategy; and, more often than not, it was broader macroeconomic and geostrategic factors rath…
The 'Unfinished Business' of Malaysia's Decolonisation
In a 'dawn raid' on the London Stock Exchange on 7 September 1981, the premiere British rubber and oil palm conglomerate in Malaysia, the Guthrie Corporation Limited, was taken into local control in less than four hours. This was the most dramatic Malaysian acquisition of a foreign company during the restructuring of the country's post-colonial economy during the 1970s and 1980s, and the Guthrie Dawn Raid remains a celebrated but, at the same tim…
Surviving Sukarno
Drawing principally upon a rich vein of previously unexploited business records, this paper analyses the experience of British firms in Indonesia between the achievement of independence and the beginnings of the Suharto regime. As in The Netherlands East Indies, British enterprises occupied a significant position in post-colonial Indonesia in plantations, oil extraction, shipping, banking, the import-export trade, and manufacturing. After the nat…
The empire in one city
From the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, Liverpool was frequently referred to as the ‘second city of the empire’. Yet, the role of Liverpool within the British imperial system and the impact on the city of its colonial connections remain underplayed in recent writing on both Liverpool and the empire. However, ‘inconvenient’ this may prove, this specially-commissioned collection of essays demonstrates that the imperial dime…
The Survival, Revival and Decline of British Economic Influence in Malaysia, 1957-70
Independence for Malaya in 1957 (and the enlargement of the federation to form Malaysia in 1963) did not have an immediately adverse effect upon British economic interests there. Indeed, Britain retained, and even revived, its huge commercial, industrial, and financial presence in Commonwealth Southeast Asia well into the 1960s. From the middle of that decade, however, British economic influence in Malaysia declined quite rapidly. The main focus …
Government and business divided
Ungentlemanly capitalism’
John Hay was one of Britain’s leading colonial capitalists, building his career from the 1900s to the 1960s in Malaya’s plantation industry. He became the leading spokesperson for the British rubber growers, and played a major role in the formulation of international restriction schemes during the 1930s. Hay was a remarkable entrepreneurial talent, consolidating his corporate power through the premiere Malayan agency house, Guthrie & Co. This in …
Reconstructing Europe through Rejuvenating Empire
In November 1947, Stafford Cripps, the UK’s Minister for Economic Affairs, told a conference of Britain’s governors in Africa that with the sterling area’s dollar deficit running at £600 to £700 million a year ‘we should increase out of all recognition the tempo of African economic development’, boosting production of anything that ‘will save dollars or will sell in a dollar market’. 1 Here was evidence that in the UK’s post-war reconstruction cr…
Capitalism and Counter-insurgency? Business and Government in the Malayan Emergency, 1948-57
Contemporary critics argued that counter-insurgency in Malaya represented more than the defeat of militant communism. Britain's campaign against the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) was seen as resulting from British government collaboration with British capitalists to maintain profits at the expense of the legitimate aspirations of Malayan workers. More recently, it has been argued that the declaration of the emergency in June 1948 was a pre-emptiv…
The Settlement of Decolonization and Post-Colonial Economic Development
Despite impressive growth in the early twenty-first century, Indonesia’s economic performance in the post-colonial era lagged behind that of its neighbours in Malaysia and Singapore. The different development paths chosen, particularly in the treatment of foreign (and, especially, ex-colonial) investment, were central to this—Indonesia’s rejection of Western capital in the 1950s and 1960s, and continued suspicion of foreign economic influence in …
Economic Opportunity and Strategic Dilemma in Colonial Development
The importance of Malaya’s iron ore has been downgraded from both an economic and geo-strategic perspective. Under colonial administration, iron-ore mines owned and operated by Japanese enterprises and individuals, and the resultant exports to Japan, were central to economic development in the east-coast states of the peninsula. But this also made British Malaya a site of international contestation as Anglo–Japanese relations became estranged in …
Imperial Business Interests, Decolonization, and Post-Colonial Diversification
This chapter scrutinizes the ways in which corporations with substantial colonial interests both anticipated and reacted to decolonization. In particular, it focuses on patterns of co-operation with post-colonial governments and the strategies of commercial diversification adopted in order to conserve regional stakes in emerging economies. Temporarily exhilarated by the Second Colonial Occupation as European imperial regimes refortified the siege…
Ferry off the Mersey’
Liverpool remained the UK's second port into the late 1960s, and, at the same time, its overseas trade remained highly skewed towards the empire–Commonwealth. By the 1980s, however, Merseyside had become almost a byword for British economic decay. Through focusing upon Liverpool's leading shipping group – the Blue Funnel/Elder Dempster complex, representing the premiere UK lines to eastern Asia and western Africa – this article provides a testing…
The Handbook of Epictetus
Narcissism, reading and history
Government and business divided
Socrates
This long-awaited study of the most enigmatic figure of Greek philosophy reclaims Socrates' ground-breaking originality. Written by a leading historian of Greek thought, it argues for a Socrates who, though long overshadowed by his successors Plato and Aristotle, marked the true turning point in Greek philosophy, religion and ethics. The quest for the historical figure focuses on the Socrates of Plato's earlier dialogues, setting him in sharp con…
The Frustrations of Development
The article reassesses the economic role of the late colonial state in Malaya. It seeks to dispel the view that the colonial government served British business interests, and that broad-based development policies only followed independence in 1957. Rather the developmentalist orientation of the state began earlier in the 1940s, and was not fully in accordance with existing economic interests
Britain and the Return of Japanese Economic Interests to South East Asia after the Second World War
Despite Japan's military defeat in 1945, Japanese economic interests returned to South East Asia remarkably rapidly in the post-war era. Backed by the United States, Japanese economic expansionism represented a new threat to British commercial and financial interests in a region much coveted by British policy-makers. Yet, notwithstanding doubts and fears expressed by some British business leaders and public servants, British policy played an impo…
Capitalism and Counter-insurgency? Business and Government in the Malayan Emergency, 1948-57
Contemporary critics argued that counter-insurgency in Malaya represented more than the defeat of militant communism. Britain's campaign against the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) was seen as resulting from British government collaboration with British capitalists to maintain profits at the expense of the legitimate aspirations of Malayan workers. More recently, it has been argued that the declaration of the emergency in June 1948 was a pre-emptiv…
Harmonizing Plato
The business and the politics of decolonization
In synthesizing recent studies of the relationships between British businesses and British governments during decolonization, the article takes issue with the 'gentlemanly capitalism' paradigm. Imperial business and imperial government did not represent a cohesive elite; private and public agencies were frequently divided on key tenets of decolonization strategy; and, more often than not, it was broader macroeconomic and geostrategic factors rath…
The Survival, Revival and Decline of British Economic Influence in Malaysia, 1957-70
Independence for Malaya in 1957 (and the enlargement of the federation to form Malaysia in 1963) did not have an immediately adverse effect upon British economic interests there. Indeed, Britain retained, and even revived, its huge commercial, industrial, and financial presence in Commonwealth Southeast Asia well into the 1960s. From the middle of that decade, however, British economic influence in Malaysia declined quite rapidly. The main focus …
British Business in Post-Colonial Malaysia, 1957-70
This book explores the limits of the idea of 'neo-colonialism' - the idea that in the period immediately after independence Malaya/Malaysia enjoyed only a 'pseudo-independence', largely because of the entrenched and dominant position of British business interests allied to indigenous elites. The author argues that, although British business did indeed have a strong position in Malaysia in this period, Malaysian politicians and administrators were…
The Beginnings of Crony Capitalism
The term 'crony capitalism' describes the close relationship between the state and big business in contemporary Southeast Asia. Yoshihara argued in 1988 that cronyism produced an entrepreneurially weak, ersatz capitalism. Crony capitalists were 'private-sector businessmen who benefit[ed] enormously from close relations' with leading officials and politicians, obtaining 'not only protection from foreign competition, but also concessions, licences,…
The Limits of Late-Colonial Intervention
The nurture of a ‘moderate’ trade union movement during the 1950s was a key element in British strategy for defeating communist insurgency in colonial Southeast Asia, and has often been taken as evidence of Britain's successfully ‘managed’ decolonisation of both the Federation of Malaya and Singapore. Supposedly, one of the lasting influences of the Emergency period has been weak labour organisations, subject to high levels of state scrutiny and …
The empire in one city
From the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, Liverpool was frequently referred to as the ‘second city of the empire’. Yet, the role of Liverpool within the British imperial system and the impact on the city of its colonial connections remain underplayed in recent writing on both Liverpool and the empire. However, ‘inconvenient’ this may prove, this specially-commissioned collection of essays demonstrates that the imperial dime…
Copper empire
Managing British colonial and post-colonial development
The business, life and letters of Frederick Cornes
Japanese shipping and shipbuilding in the twentieth century
Japanese shipping and shipbuilding in the twentieth century: the writings of Peter N. Davies, by Peter N. Davies, Folkestone, Kent, Global Oriental, 2010, xxii + 194 pp., £50.00 (hardback), ISBN 97
The 'Unfinished Business' of Malaysia's Decolonisation
In a 'dawn raid' on the London Stock Exchange on 7 September 1981, the premiere British rubber and oil palm conglomerate in Malaysia, the Guthrie Corporation Limited, was taken into local control in less than four hours. This was the most dramatic Malaysian acquisition of a foreign company during the restructuring of the country's post-colonial economy during the 1970s and 1980s, and the Guthrie Dawn Raid remains a celebrated but, at the same tim…
Ferry off the Mersey’
Liverpool remained the UK's second port into the late 1960s, and, at the same time, its overseas trade remained highly skewed towards the empire–Commonwealth. By the 1980s, however, Merseyside had become almost a byword for British economic decay. Through focusing upon Liverpool's leading shipping group – the Blue Funnel/Elder Dempster complex, representing the premiere UK lines to eastern Asia and western Africa – this article provides a testing…
Reconstructing Europe through Rejuvenating Empire
In November 1947, Stafford Cripps, the UK’s Minister for Economic Affairs, told a conference of Britain’s governors in Africa that with the sterling area’s dollar deficit running at £600 to £700 million a year ‘we should increase out of all recognition the tempo of African economic development’, boosting production of anything that ‘will save dollars or will sell in a dollar market’. 1 Here was evidence that in the UK’s post-war reconstruction cr…
The Killer Angels , Popular Memory, and the Battle of Gettysburg Sesquicentennial
Surviving Sukarno
Drawing principally upon a rich vein of previously unexploited business records, this paper analyses the experience of British firms in Indonesia between the achievement of independence and the beginnings of the Suharto regime. As in The Netherlands East Indies, British enterprises occupied a significant position in post-colonial Indonesia in plantations, oil extraction, shipping, banking, the import-export trade, and manufacturing. After the nat…
Holding Back the Tide
In analysing debates about the complementarity of British gentlemanly capitalism and the growth of intra-Asian trade, this chapter spotlights Liverpool-based shipping interests in southern and eastern Asia from the 1920s to the 1970s.1 After establishing the significance of Asian trade for twentieth-century Liverpool, the analysis addresses the degree to which Liverpool’s shipping elite slotted into gentlemanly capitalism: the amalgam of London-c…
The International Order of Asia in the 1930s and 1950s
Contents: Introduction: the international order of Asia in the 1930s and 1950s: contexts, hypotheses and scope, Shigeru Akita and Nicholas J. White Part 1 The International Order of Asia, the British Empire and the Sterling Area: British economic interests and the international order of Asia in the 1930s, Shigeru Akita British imperialism in Asia and Anglo-Japanese relations, 1930s-1950s, Yoichi Kibata The formation of an industrialization-orient…
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