“…The economics of empire, both formal and informal, proved a popular subject this year. Challenging the idea that an unofficial imperialism followed British capital abroad, Dilley finds that the City's influence over borrowers in Australia and Canada was weaker than has been claimed, while Accominotti et al. argue that financial repression accompanied political repression in the ‘dependent’ colonies, but not in the self‐governing dominions, race playing a major factor in economic decisions. Howkins explores the decline of Britain's informal empire in Argentina from the 1930s, drawing attention to the importance of what he calls ‘environmental nationalism’: challenges to Britain's claims of being able to assert control over nature, which had been central to its close relationship with the nation's land‐owning elites.…”