Patriotism, Self-Interest and the ‘Empire Effect’: Britishness and British Decisions to Invest in Canada, 1867–1914
Patriotism, Self-Interest and the ‘Empire Effect’: Britishness and British Decisions to Invest in Canada, 1867–1914
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爱国主义、利己主义和“帝国效应”：英国性和英国投资加拿大的决定，1867-1914 年
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10.1080/03086534.2013.762155
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2013
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Andrew D Smith
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Andrew D Smith
本文建立在越来越多的文学作品的英国世界，这表明，在英国的人有一个强大的英国身份和他们的要求，英国人在不列颠群岛的人承认。它试图衡量这种英国世界身份在多大程度上影响了英国资本的全球配置。关于英国在自治领的投资的现有文献中，大部分都否定了英国资本输出模式受到帝国爱国主义重大影响的可能性。本文将表明，帝国主义情绪确实影响了英国资本输出的目的地。帝国主义情绪影响了自治领的法律的和政治制度，从而鼓励了英国的投资。此外，帝国意识形态可能以现有史学没有充分探讨的方式影响了投资者的决策：至少有一些英国投资者可能愿意接受较低的预期回报率，因为他们重视在恰好是大英帝国一部分的领土上投资的心理满足感。本文通过对英国在与英国世界关系模糊的美国的投资经验和在加拿大的投资经验的比较，了解英国世界认同对投资模式的影响。
This paper builds on the growing body of literature on the British World, which has shown that people in the dominions had a strong British identity and their claims to Britishness were recognised by people in the British Isles. It attempts to gauge the extent to which this British World identity influenced the global allocation of British capital. Much of the existing literature on British investment in the dominions dismisses the possibility that the pattern in Britain's capital exports was significantly affected by imperial patriotism. This article will suggest that imperial sentiment did indeed influence the destination of British capital exports. Imperialist sentiment influenced the legal and political institutions of the dominions in ways that encouraged British investment. Moreover, imperial ideology may have influenced investors' decisions in ways that the existing historiography does not adequately explore: at least some British investors may have been willing to accept a lower anticipated rate of return because they valued the psychological satisfaction of investing in territories that happened to be part of the British Empire. This article compares the experience of British investment in the United States, which has an ambiguous relationship with the British World, with that of investment in Canada with a view to understanding the impact of the British World identity on investment patterns.