LEADER 03085oam 2200625I 450 001 9910786589103321 005 20230801225541.0 010 $a0-203-10871-X 010 $a1-283-86203-4 010 $a1-136-26703-4 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203108710 035 $a(CKB)2670000000299327 035 $a(EBL)1092766 035 $a(OCoLC)823387043 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000810918 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11436568 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000810918 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10833462 035 $a(PQKB)11322400 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1092766 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1092766 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10632340 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL417453 035 $a(OCoLC)823730584 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000299327 100 $a20180706d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe export of capital from Britain, 1870-1914 /$fedited with an introduction by A.R. Hall 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (209 p.) 225 0 $aRoutledge library editions : banking & finance ;$vv. 16 300 $aFirst published in 1968 by Methuen & Co. Ltd. 311 $a1-138-00777-3 311 $a0-415-53893-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aCover; Title; Copyright; Contents; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION; 1 The Pattern of New British Portfolio Foreign Investment, 1865-19I4; 2 Migration and International Investment; 3 The Long Swing: Comparisons and Interactions Between British and American Balance of Payments, 1820-1913; 4 Overseas Lending and Internal Fluctuations, 1870\x=req-\ 1914; 5 Fluctuations in House-Building in Britain and the United States in the Nineteenth Century; 6 Capital Imports and the Composition of Investment in a Borrowing Country; 7 Investment in Canada, 1900-13; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 330 $aDuring the years before 1914 the world's still largely unused resources were brought increasingly within the framework of a single world economy. This process owed much to Britain's ability to export capital on a scale which has never since been equalled. Yet periods of heavy investment overseas alternated with home investment booms that absorbed the greater part of Britain's savings. The reasons for this fluctuation, and the mechanism which linked Britain's economic development with the rest of the world, are still subject to debate. This volume illuminates the problems of the global econo 410 0$aRoutledge Library Editions: Banking & Finance 606 $aInvestments, British$xHistory 606 $aInvestments$zGreat Britain$xHistory 615 0$aInvestments, British$xHistory. 615 0$aInvestments$xHistory. 676 $a332.67 701 $aHall$b Alan Ross$01539799 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786589103321 996 $aThe export of capital from Britain, 1870-1914$93790912 997 $aUNINA