1. See P.J. Cain and A.G. Hopkins, British Imperialism: Innovation and Expansion, 1688–1914, London 1993 and
2. P.J. Cain and A.G. Hopkins, British Imperialism: Crisis and Deconstruction, 1914–1990, London 1993
3. On the dualism within British capitalism between mercantile and industrial capital see also the various articles by Perry Anderson and Tom Nairn in the New Left Review since 1964, and in particularly Perry Anderson, The Figures of Descent’, New Left Review, no. 161, Jan./Feb. 1987, pp. 20–78.
4. See especially, Alex Callinicos, ‘Exception or Symptom: The British Crisis and the World System’, New Left Review, no. 169, May/June 1988, pp. 97–108 and
5. David Nicholls, ‘Fractions of Capital: The Aristocracy, the City and Industry in the Development of Modern British Capitalism’, Social History, vol. 13, 1988, pp. 71–83.