book tv, television for serious readers.oining u >> joining us on book tv is peter james hudson, the author of this book "bankers and empire: how wall street colonized the caribbean" what was your goal with this book? >> i think there were a number of goals here. in the first place was to excavate the international origin of wall street, to excavate the international origin and to locate those origins in the caribbean, which i think was a kind of critical r and fertile testing ground. at the same time i was interested in trying to understand to some degree is there a relationship between wall street history in the international field and some of its contemporary practices, is there a way one can generate a genealogy through the 20th century and what were the kind of terms of that genealogy and of that international expansion. in that i think a couple of things emerge for me and one is the critical relationship thatet institution including what is now citigroup: j.p. morgan chase had to us imperialism in the 20th century. how these institutions really grappled with the question of w i

. >> host: joining us on booktv is peter james hudson,, the author of this book "bankers and empire: how wall streetet colonized the caribbean." what was your goal with this book? >> guest: i think there's a number of goals here. in the first place it was to excavate the international origins of wall street, to excavate the international origins of wall street and to locate those origins in the caribbean, and the west indies which i think was a kind of critical and fertile testing ground for wall street'son. internationalization. at the same time i was interested in trying to understand to some degree is there a relationship between wall street's history in the international field and some of its contemporary practices? is there a way one can trace something of a genealogy through the 20th century from the time i look at which is 1873-1973 up until the present and what with the terms of that genealogy andd of that international expansion? and in that i think a couple of things emerged for me. one is the critical relationship that institutions, wall street institutions, including what

book tv, television for serious readers.oining u >> joining us on book tv is peter james hudson, the author of this book "bankers and empire: how wall street colonized the caribbean" what was your goal with this book? >> i think there were a number of goals here. in the first place was to excavate the international origin of wall street, to excavate the international origin and to locate those origins in the caribbean, which i think was a kind of critical r

. >> host: joining us on booktv is peter james hudson,, the author of this book "bankers and empire: how wall streetet colonized the caribbean." what was your goal with this book? >> guest: i think there's a number of goals here. in the first place it was to