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All books are works of collaboration. However, in our case this is true twice over. Not only have we worked together over several years to synthesise economic and culturalist approaches to the study of empire – along the way, we have benefited from the advice and guidance of colleagues working across the humanities and social sciences. Saul Dubow and Dane Kennedy read the whole manuscript in draft; we are indebted to them both for their thoughtful observations upon the project. David Omissi gave generously of his time towards the end of the project to help us draw our conclusions together; we are especially grateful to him therefore. The exchange of emails with Tony Hopkins highlighted the importance of historical perspectives upon globalisation, and alerted us to how a better understanding of globalising forces in the past might in turn shed light upon their operation in the present. Meanwhile, Peter Buckley drew our attention to new work in the field of international business theory on globalisation, in particular its regionalised character. Alan Lester and Simon Potter guided us through the growing literature upon imperial networks, and helped us to sharpen and refine our ideas upon the subject. Antoinette Burton and Andrew Thompson wrote a joint piece on geographical conceptions of empire that fed into the chapter on the historiography of the British World. Kent Fedorowich, Marjory Harper and Eric Richards shared their ideas upon overseas migration, and took an interest in our study of migrant remittances, while Simon Hall supplied references to key texts on migration to the United States. Mike Collins and Mae Baker guided us through the literatures on insurance and banking, sharing the fruits of their own recent research, as well as commenting upon the chapter on investment. Max Corden and Sisira Jayasuriya provided us with many valuable insights from trade theory. Our South African case studies draw on the knowledge of Greg Cuthbertson and Vivian Bickford-Smith. Moreover, it was thanks to Greg that we were able to present an early version of our thesis as a

xviii Acknowledgements plenary lecture at the South African Historical Association’s Jubilee Conference at the University of Pretoria in June 2006. At that conference we were also fortunate to be able to listen to Robert Ross’s presentation on the global history of clothing, and then to correspond with him on the importation of clothing into South Africa. Meanwhile, Elizabeth Elbourne provided helpful references on indigenous clothing in West and South Africa. Margaret Maynard’s work on Australian clothing and fashion was of tremendous help when writing about the material culture of empire, and we are very grateful to her for corresponding with us on this subject. Richard Broome guided us through the complexities of Aboriginal dress and culture, kindly supplying copies of key primary texts, and discussing his own important researches. Further help came from long-standing colleagues who have supported us over many years: Peter Cain, John Darwin, David Eastwood, John Gooch, Richard Grayson, Brian Harrison, Roberto Raimondo, Graeme Snooks and Richard Whiting. Both of us received fellowships and grants that were vital to the completion of this study. Special thanks to the Institute of Advanced Study at La Trobe University for Andrew Thompson’s Distinguished Professorial Fellowship in 2006, and to Richard Broome, Barry Carr, Anthony Hammerton, Jon Jenkin, William Murray, Alexander Tyrrell and Robert Young for their hospitality and kindness. We are also grateful to Carl Bridge at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at King’s College London, for Gary Magee and Andrew Thompson’s Australian Bicentennial Fellowships in 2005 and 2006 respectively. Gary Magee also benefited from visiting fellowships at the University of Oxford – at the Department of Economics and Greyfriars Hall – in 2005, and at the Leeds Humanities Research Institute, University of Leeds, in 2006. We were fortunate to be assisted by several librarians and archivists who gave generously of their time:  Jane Saunders at the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds; Mary-Lynn Suttie at the Library of the University of South Africa, Pretoria; Edwin Green at the HSBC Group Archives in Canada Square, London; and the staff at the Post Office Archives, then located at Farringdon Road, London.

xixWhile writing this book, one of us became Dean, the other Head of School – combining these roles with research would not have been possible without the tremendous support we had from Jan Franklin in Leeds and Colleen Harte in Melbourne, who both worked wonders with our diaries to protect time for writing and for overseas travel. We are also indebted to Meaghan Kowalsky for helping us to chase down Acknowledgements references, for editing the footnotes, and for producing the bibliography. Further thanks go to Michael Watson at Cambridge University Press for contracting the book, for all his encouragement along the way and for suggesting the subtitle. Separating work and home life is never easy for academics, and special thanks are due to Sarah Lenton for appreciating this, and for providing Andrew with companionship throughout the project.