Anthony Webster is Professor in History at Northumbria University, Newcastle on Tyne, UK.

• Acknowledgements Chapter One: Mr Bates Goes to Washington: Industrialisation, Consumerism, Overseas Trade and British Co-operation 1800-1890 - An OverviewChapter Two: Butter, Dried Fruit and the Big Apple: The Rise of the CWS/SCWS as a Global Business 1863-1890Chapter Three: Indian Cuppas, West African Soap and Irish Failures: The Maturing of a Global Supply Network? The CWS’s international trade, British Co-operation and the British State 1890-1918Chapter Four: Dealing with Dictators and Developing the Empire: The Zenith of British Co-operation and the World 1918-1945?Chapter Five: Retreat and Deconstruction: The Decline of the Global British Co-operative Wholesale Networks 1945-1980 and West Africa and South Asia – Two Case Studies of the Wholesales OverseasChapter Six: Rebuilding Global Networks and Moral Regeneration? Evaluating the emergence of the Co-operative Group 1980-2018 within the global history of British wholesale co-operation.BibliographyIndex

Anthony Webster is Professor in History at Northumbria University, Newcastle on Tyne, UK.

• Acknowledgements Chapter One: Mr Bates Goes to Washington: Industrialisation, Consumerism, Overseas Trade and British Co-operation 1800-1890 - An OverviewChapter Two: Butter, Dried Fruit and the Big Apple: The Rise of the CWS/SCWS as a Global Business 1863-1890Chapter Three: Indian Cuppas, West African Soap and Irish Failures: The Maturing of a Global Supply Network? The CWS’s international trade, British Co-operation and the British State 1890-1918Chapter Four: Dealing with Dictators and Developing the Empire: The Zenith of British Co-operation and the World 1918-1945?Chapter Five: Retreat and Deconstruction: The Decline of the Global British Co-operative Wholesale Networks 1945-1980 and West Africa and South Asia – Two Case Studies of the Wholesales OverseasChapter Six: Rebuilding Global Networks and Moral Regeneration? Evaluating the emergence of the Co-operative Group 1980-2018 within the global history of British wholesale co-operation.BibliographyIndex

Anthony Webster is Professor in History at Northumbria University, Newcastle on Tyne, UK.

• Acknowledgements Chapter One: Mr Bates Goes to Washington: Industrialisation, Consumerism, Overseas Trade and British Co-operation 1800-1890 - An OverviewChapter Two: Butter, Dried Fruit and the Big Apple: The Rise of the CWS/SCWS as a Global Business 1863-1890Chapter Three: Indian Cuppas, West African Soap and Irish Failures: The Maturing of a Global Supply Network? The CWS’s international trade, British Co-operation and the British State 1890-1918Chapter Four: Dealing with Dictators and Developing the Empire: The Zenith of British Co-operation and the World 1918-1945?Chapter Five: Retreat and Deconstruction: The Decline of the Global British Co-operative Wholesale Networks 1945-1980 and West Africa and South Asia – Two Case Studies of the Wholesales OverseasChapter Six: Rebuilding Global Networks and Moral Regeneration? Evaluating the emergence of the Co-operative Group 1980-2018 within the global history of British wholesale co-operation.BibliographyIndex