How Britain and the United States Shaped the Global Periphery Atul Kohli

• Systematically compares British and American imperialism over more than two centuries
• Crosses international relations, diplomatic history, and the political economy of development
• Demonstrates that core countries pursue a range of predictable methods to control those on the global periphery
• Establishes that imperialism is driven by the needs of metropolitan countries to pursue national economic prosperity
• Shows the impact of imperial control on the prospects of sustained development in poor countries of the world