Managing British Colonial and Post-Colonial Development: The Crown Agents, 1914-74

by David Sunderland

Britain's Crown Agents' Office is a unique development agency. Until the early 1960s, its clients were colonial governments, and, thereafter, the administrations of dependencies and newly independent countries. As well as purchasing a large proportion of its customers' imports, it provided them with finance and managed their investments. It was thus one of the largest buyers of goods in the UK, and, after, the Bank of England, the country's biggest...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843833018
• ISBN13: 9781843833017
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.2"