scholarly journals Money Walks | The Economic Role of the Street in the City of London 1947–1993

Opticon1826 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 0 (16) ◽  
pp. 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Economic Role ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

scholarly journals PROTESTANT MILITARY HUMANISM IN EARLY STUART IRELAND

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. ALAN ORR
Keyword(s):  
Vital Role ◽  
Civilizing Mission ◽  
Civic Values ◽  
Close Study ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
Strong Commitment ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

AbstractThis article addresses the role of Protestant military humanism in early Stuart Ireland. The central argument is that Protestant military humanism as embodied in the works of such authors as Geoffrey Gates (fl. 1566–80) and Barnabe Rich (1541–1617) played a vital role in the Jacobean plantation of Ulster. These authors combined a strong commitment to the Protestant religion with the conviction that martial virtue was essential for the preservation of the commonwealth against the threats of domestic rebellion and foreign domination. The example of the soldier-planter Sir Thomas Phillips of Limavady (c. 1560–1636) and his criticisms of the City of London's plantation in Derry during the 1620s demonstrates that military humanist values not only offered a persuasive rationale for colonization, but also significantly shaped the course of plantation on the ground. Phillips's lengthy conflict with the City of London demonstrated a fundamental disjuncture between his own Protestant military humanist outlook, and the City's own understanding of its civilizing mission in Ireland; however, rather than a conflict between aristocratic and civic values, close study reveals instead a struggle grounded in competing hierarchies of civic values.

The Structure Of Urban Politics In The English Civil War

1979 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Howell
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
English Civil War ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Political Role ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
Significant Factors

To many seventeenth century observers, the political role of towns in the English Civil War was clear enough. Clarendon, for example, referred to the “great towns and corporations, where besides the natural malignity, the factious lecturers and emissaries from the Parliament had poisoned the affections.” Thomas Hobbes was even more specific: “The City of London and other great towns of trade, having in admiration the prosperity of the Low Countries after they had revolted from their monarch the king of Spain were inclined to think that the like change of government here would to them produce the like prosperity.” In similar fashion, the anonymous author of the 1648 tract Persecutio Undecima saw the commercial interests of the urban areas, especially London, as one of the significant factors in the calling of the Long Parliament and the subsequent outbreak of war.

scholarly journals Nordic Ties and British Lives? Migrant Capital and the Case of Nordic Migrants Living in London

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 171-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saara Koikkalainen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Global City ◽  
British Society ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
The Social ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

As a hub of finance, art, design and science, the city of London has long attracted migrants interested in study and career opportunities or simply excited about living in an open, global city. Over the last few decades, it has also been a key migration destination for Europeans originating from the Nordic countries. Based on survey data gathered through an online questionnaire, this article focuses on Nordic migrants currently living in London. Since the June 2016 referendum, the Brexit process has forced these voluntary and rather privileged migrants to question their inclusion in British society. This article discusses the role of migrant capital, i.e., the skills and resources created as a result of migration, at a time of uncertainty brought on by Brexit. It examines how these migrants see their position within the social hierarchy of the city and its job market, as well as within the local and transnational networks they maintain to their countries of origin. Their Nordic background is valuable thanks to the cultural capital embodied in their habitus as well as the social capital available via the Nordic networks in UK and transnationally.

Big Bang in the City of London: an intentional revolution or an accident?

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Bellringer ◽  
Ranald Michie
Keyword(s):  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
Securities Market ◽  
Financial Centre ◽  
Conservative Government ◽  
Small Change ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

In July 1983 an agreement was reached between the British government and the London Stock Exchange that was to transform the London securities market in October 1986. The result was a revolution that extended all the way from the design of the market to those permitted access to the governance of those who traded. Given the speed of change, it was termed ‘Big Bang’ by contemporaries. As the scale of the transformation became known, politicians were quick to claim credit for what had been achieved. Subsequently, Big Bang has been regarded as one of the crowning achievements of the Conservative government led by Mrs Thatcher, providing the foundation for the City of London's re-emergence as the leading international financial centre. However, only now is evidence emerging of the intentions of those involved at the time rather than as expressed in the light of hindsight, which casts doubt on what they were seeking to achieve, whether viewed from the perspective of either the politicians or those in charge of the Stock Exchange. Instead, the longer-term pressure for change in the London securities market, the chain reaction caused by abolition of fixed-commission charges, and the proactive role of the Bank of England appear to be of greater significance. What an examination of the process leading up to Big Bang in 1986 reveals is the complexity of political decision involving the financial sector and the danger of unforeseen consequences. One small change can create a tipping point if the result is to remove an essential element within a complex system.

scholarly journals ADMINISTRATIVE, CULTURAL, URBAN AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN JERUSALEM IN THE EARLY ABBASID PERIOD (132-247 AH/749-861 AD)

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 23-43
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Development ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
Political Role ◽  
Political Center ◽  
History Of ◽  
Advanced Stages ◽  
Umayyad Caliphate ◽  
The City

This article sheds light on the history of the city of Jerusalem during the early Abbasid period (132-247 AH/749-861 AD), after the city had reached the most advanced stages of architectural and cultural development in the Umayyad period, based on it being a religious and political center competing with the Two Holy Mosques in the Hijaz. After the fall of the Umayyad Caliphate, the political role of the city of Jerusalem lessened, once the center of the caliphate moved to Baghdad, despite the continued care of the Abbasid caliphs for the city, especially regarding restorations of the holy sites, after the natural disasters that afflicted the city. The study also sheds light on the cultural and economic role of the city during the period.

scholarly journals The Reaction of the City of London to the Quebec Resolutions, 1864-1866

2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Andrew Smith
Keyword(s):  
Interest Group ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Bond Markets ◽  
The Public ◽  
Colonial Policy ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
Materialist Interpretation

Abstract This paper examines how British investors reacted when the Quebec Resolutions were published in the fall of 1864. Although the responses of bond markets are briefly considered, the paper is mainly based on non-quantitative sources such as newspaper editorials and correspondence. Examining why British investors generally approved of the constitutional plan contained in the Quebec Resolutions is useful because it illuminates such important themes as the place of imported capital in Canadian state formation, the role of Britain in Confederation, and the viability of interest-group explanations for the making of colonial policy. The ideas of British investors are also important because British capital helped to finance the public works that were a sine qua non of Confederation. In 1866, Joseph Howe identified pressure from the bondholders of unprofitable Canadian railways as one of the major factors driving the British government’s support of Confederation. Although Tom Naylor and other historians have made use of Howe’s insight, the role of the investors has been ignored by both Ged Martin and by those scholars who advance an ideological-origins explanation of Confederation. This paper will help remedy this oversight and is a step towards a viable materialist interpretation of why Confederation happened in the 1860s.

Capitalism and Counter-insurgency? Business and Government in the Malayan Emergency, 1948-57

1998 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
NICHOLAS J. WHITE
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
British Government ◽  
Business Interests ◽  
Scholarly Output ◽  
Malayan Emergency ◽  
And Control ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Contemporary critics argued that counter-insurgency in Malaya represented more than the defeat of militant communism. Britain's campaign against the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) was seen as resulting from British government collaboration with British capitalists to maintain profits at the expense of the legitimate aspirations of Malayan workers. More recently, it has been argued that the declaration of the emergency in June 1948 was a pre-emptive strike intended to ‘resolve the problem of political control’ and prevent the ‘radical nationalist forces organized around the MCP’ from gaining a nation-wide following. According to this view, government strategy was to ‘manage nationalism’ and ‘control’ decolonization so as to preserve the position of British capital in Malaya. For marxists, the emergency is seen as part of the process of establishing ‘neo-colonialism’. Even for less determinist models, the general complicity between British government and British business in colonial counter-insurgency campaigns is apparently clear. In primary-producing territories like Malaya, the harmony of interests between ‘gentlemanly capitalist’ officials and unofficials (centred on the City of London) ensured that after 1945 ‘coercion tended to be the first resort of policy’. The majority of scholarly output on the emergency has focused on official and guerrilla strategies leaving aside the role of business interests. As a result, the relationship between British business and British government has not been explored in depth. The present article seeks to fill this historiographical gap by reassessing official and commercial interaction in politically disturbed Malaya.

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