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| List of Tables and Maps | |
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| Extracts from Reviews | |
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| Preface to the First Edition | |
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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Note on Sources | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Foreword: The Continuing Debate on Empire | |
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| Introduction, 1688-1914 | |
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| The Problem and the Context | |
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| The historiographical setting | |
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| The argument | |
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| Gentility and the market | |
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| The evolution of the gentlemanly order | |
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| The manufacturing interest | |
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| The terms of the trade: expansion and imperialism | |
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| Ideology and methodology | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Prospective: Aristocracy, Finance and Empire, 1688-1850 | |
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| Historiographical perspectives | |
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| The financial revolution: private interests and public virtues | |
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| The evolution of the military-fiscal state | |
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| Exporting the Revolution Settlement | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Gentlemanly Order, 1850-1914 | |
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| 'Something Peculiar to England': The Service Sector, Wealth and Power, 1850-1914 | |
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| Economic growth | |
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| Agricultural decline | |
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| Industry after 1850 | |
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| The service sector | |
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| The new gentlemanly capitalists | |
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| The City of London and gentlemanly capitalism | |
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| Industry, provincialism and power | |
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| Gentlemanly capitalism and politics | |
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| Economic interests and occupations of Members of Parliament, 1868-1914 | |
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| Gentlemanly Capitalism and Economic Policy: City, Government and the 'National Interest', 1850-1914 | |
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| Gladstonian finance | |
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| Gladstonianism, the Bank of England and the gold standard | |
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| The City of London and the national interest | |
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| The Baring Crisis and its resolution | |
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| Industry and economic policy | |
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| City and government in the nineteenth century | |
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| 'The Great Emporium': Foreign Trade and Invisible Earnings, 1850-1914 | |
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| Commodity trade and foreign competition | |
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| Trade in services | |
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| Foreign investments | |
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| Commerce, finance and free trade | |
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| Two Nations? Foreign Investment and the Domestic Economy, 1850-1914 | |
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| The City and foreign investment | |
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| Foreign investment and industry | |
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| Foreign investment and economic growth | |
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| Foreign investment and gentlemanly capitalism | |
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| Challenging Cosmopolitanism: The Tariff Problem and Imperial Unity, 1880-1914 | |
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| Free trade and empire unity | |
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| Chamberlain and protectionism | |
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| Industry, the City and free trade | |
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| Cosmopolitanism and industrial decline | |
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| Manufacturing interests in Parliament, 1868-1910 | |
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| The Wider World, 1815-1914 | |
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| 'An Extension of the Old Society': Britain and the Colonies of Settlement, 1850-1914 | |
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| The international economy and the new world | |
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| Political liberty and financial dependence | |
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| Australasia | |
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| Canadian unity and British finance | |
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| Britain and the white empire after 1850 | |
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| Calling the New World into Existence: South America, 1815-1914 | |
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| A continental perspective | |
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| Argentina | |
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| Brazil | |
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| Chile | |
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| The spread of informal influence | |
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| 'Meeting her Obligations to her English Creditors': India, 1858-1914 | |
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| Interpretations of the imperial purpose | |
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| Prelude, 1757-1857 | |
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| The extension of the gentlemanly order | |
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| Financial imperatives and British rule | |
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| 'The Imperious and Irresistible Necessity': Britain and the Partition of Africa, 1882-1902 | |
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| Britain's first development plan for Africa | |
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| The occupation of Egypt | |
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| Crisis and war in South Africa | |
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| Selective acquisitions: tropical Africa | |
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| From partition to paramountcy | |
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| 'We Offer Ourselves as Supporters': The Ottoman Empire and Persia, 1838-1914 | |
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| The Ottoman Empire: from free trade to foreign management | |
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| Persia: financial diplomacy--with limited finance | |
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| Management without development | |
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| 'Maintaining the Credit-Worthiness of the Chinese Government': China, 1839-1911 | |
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| Experiments with informal influence, 1839-94 | |
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| The scramble for China, 1894-1911 | |
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| The new financial empire | |
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| Redividing the World | |
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| Britain, Germany and 'Imperialist' War, 1900-14 | |
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| The economics of foreign policy | |
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| Marxist theory and World War I | |
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| Anglo-German rivalry and its effects | |
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| Retrospect: 1688-1914 | |
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| The Empire in the Twentieth Century | |
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| The Imperialist Dynamic: From World War I to Decolonisation | |
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| The Gentlemanly Order, 1914-39 | |
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| 'The Power of Constant Renewal': Services, Finance and the Gentlemanly Elite, 1914-39 | |
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| Manufacturing, services and the south-east | |
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| Finance and industry after 1914 | |
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| Wealth and power between the wars | |
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| Industry, the City and the Decline of the International Economy, 1914-39 | |
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| Commodity trade | |
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| The City and invisibles | |
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| Upholding Gentlemanly Values: The American Challenge, 1914-31 | |
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| Industry, the state, and war, 1914-21 | |
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| The impact of the United States | |
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| The return to gold | |
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| The financial crisis, 1929-31 | |
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| 'A Latter-Day Expression of Financial Imperialism': The Origins of the Sterling Area, 1931-39 | |
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| Financial crisis and economic orthodoxy | |
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| Financial imperialism without gold | |
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| The coming of the Pax Americana | |
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| The Wider World, 1914-49 | |
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| Maintaining Financial Discipline: The Dominions, 1914-39 | |
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| The Australian debt crisis | |
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| Disciplining the Afrikaner | |
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| New Zealand breaks the shackles | |
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| Canada and sterling | |
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| Imperial preference and British finance | |
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| 'A New Era of Colonial Ambitions': South America, 1914-39 | |
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| A continental perspective | |
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| Argentina | |
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| Brazil | |
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| Chile | |
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| Debt-collecting and control in South America | |
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| 'Financial Stability and Good Government': India, 1914-47 | |
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| Patterns of trade and investment | |
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| The gentlemen of the Raj | |
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| The impact of World War I | |
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| The attempt to return to normality: the 1920s | |
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| Economic crisis and political advance: the 1930s | |
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| War, finance and independence | |
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| Holding India to the Empire | |
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| 'Playing the Game' in Tropical Africa, 1914-40 | |
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| Trade, finance and economic policy: an overview | |
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| Trusteeship and the trustees | |
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| World War I in tropical Africa | |
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| Development and control in the 1920s | |
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| Imposing and reappraising orthodoxy: the 1930s | |
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| Colonial rule with limited supplies of capital | |
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| 'The Only Great Undeveloped Market in the World': China, 1911-49 | |
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| Trade and finance: an overview | |
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| Strategy and strategists | |
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| Revolution, war and war-lords, 1911-18 | |
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| Maintaining British influence: the 1920s | |
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| Forging a new partnership: the 1930s | |
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| Towards 1949 | |
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| Safeguarding British interests in an age of revolution | |
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| Losing an Empire and Finding a Role, 1939-2000 | |
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| The City, the Sterling Area and Decolonisation | |
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| The survival of the gentlemanly order | |
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| International economic policy, 1939-55 | |
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| The empire in war and reconstruction | |
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| The Sterling Area: the final phase, 1955-72 | |
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| Global economic change and the end of empire | |
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| Epilogue: the City in the post-imperial world | |
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| Conclusion: 1688-2000 | |
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| Bases of the analysis | |
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| The historical argument | |
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| The wider context | |
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| Afterword: Empires and Globalization | |
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| The history of globalization | |
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| From proto-globalization to modern globalization | |
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| The era of post-colonial globalization | |
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| Maps | |
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| Index | |