Apartheid / Minneapolis / Montreal / New York / Manchester / Washington / DC / Ceylon / Melbourne / Washington / London / Durham / /
Company
Duke University Press / non-British / Commonwealth Africa / Cambridge University Press / McGill-Queen’s University Press / Manchester University Press / Clarendon Press / McGraw-Hill / Oxford University Press / IMF/Oxford University Press / Suez / Melbourne University Press / The World Bank / Regional Payments Systems / Macmillan / /
Continent
America / North America / /
Country
Myanmar / New Zealand / Zimbabwe / Egypt / Pakistan / United States / Canada / Australia / United Kingdom / Ghana / Iraq / India / /
Currency
GBP / USD / /
Event
Person Communication and Meetings / /
Facility
University of North Carolina Press / Institute of Commonwealth Studies / British complex / University of Minnesota Press / Chapel Hill / University of London / /
Holiday
Commonwealth Day / /
IndustryTerm
equivalent foreign product / imperial economic audit / ad hoc defensive networks / imperial network / Private sector networks / bank / banking / manufacturing / public and private networks / /
NaturalFeature
Chapel Hill / /
Organization
Cambridge University / Brookings Institution / International Monetary Fund / Commonwealth Preference Area / International Trade Organization / University of North Carolina / European Economic Community / Macmillan government / General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade / Sterling Area Statistical Committee / Duke University / Labour government / U.S. Congress / World Bank / Sterling Area / Public Record Office / International Bank for Reconstruction and development / Oxford University / Institute of Commonwealth Studies / University of North Carolina Press / Churchill’s Grand Alliance / University of London / University of Minnesota Press / /
Person
Peter Fraser / Churchill / Walter Nash / Harold Wilson / Keith Hancock / Gunnar Myrdal / Judd Polk / Stanley Baldwin / C. Trebilcock / /
In the mid-twentieth century the Commonwealth was the leading economic community in the world.1 Writing in 1956, Gunnar Myrdal compared the Commonwealth favourably to Western Europe as an economic and political grouping.