This volume brings together leading global economic historians to honour Patrick O''Brien''s contribution to the establishment of global economic history as a coherent and respected field in the academy. Inspired by O''Brien''s seminal work on the British Industrial Revolution as a global phenomenon, these essays expand the role of the Industrial Revolution and British imperial leadership beyond the issue of hierarchy and The Great Divergence. The change from the protective Atlantic empire, 1650-1850, to the free trade empire of the last half of the long nineteenth century is elaborated as are the conscious efforts of the free trade empire to develop markets and market economies in Africa. British domestic politics associated with the change and the continuation to the recent politics of Brexit are fascinatingly narrated and documented, including the economic rationale for imperial expansion, in the first instance.<br/><br/>The narrative continues to the crises of globalization caused
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