The Foreign Office, Commerce and British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Introduction
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   Chapter 2 “A Kind of Black Hole”?: Commercial Diplomacy Before 1914
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   Chapter 3 In Pursuit of National Security: The Foreign Office and Middle Eastern Oil, 1908–39
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   Chapter 4 The De Bunsen Mission to South America, 1918
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   Chapter 5 The Age of Illusion? The Department of Overseas Trade Between the Two World Wars: Three Case Studies
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   Chapter 6 Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British Government and the Reparation (Recovery) Act, 1927–8
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   Chapter 7 Imperial Solutions to International Crises: Alliances, Trade and the Ottawa Imperial Economic Conference of 1932
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   Chapter 8 The Foreign Office, Foreign Policy and Commerce: Anglo-German Relations in the 1930s
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    Chapter 9 ‘The Jackal’s Share’: Whitehall, the City of London and British Policy Towards the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–9
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    Chapter 10 British Industry and US–UK Economic Diplomacy During the Second World War
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    Chapter 11 Power Relations: The Foreign Office, the Board of Trade and the Development of Civil Nuclear Power, 1945–70
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    Chapter 12 ‘Keeping Her Powder Dry’: Turkey’s Commercial Ties with Britain in the 1940s
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    Chapter 13 The Foreign Office, the Board of Trade and Anglo-Italian Relations in the Aftermath of the Second World War
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    Chapter 14 Britain and Antarctica: Keeping the Economic Dimension in Its Place
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    Chapter 15 Anglo-Spanish Commercial Relations, 1946–50
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    Chapter 16 When Strategic Foreign Policy Considerations Did Not Trump Economics: British Cold War Policies on East-West Trade
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    Chapter 17 The Business of Decolonization: The Foreign Office, British Business, and the End of Empire in Kuwait and Qatar
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    Chapter 18 The Foreign Office and Preparing for the First United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
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    Chapter 19 Commerce as a British Cold War ‘Heresy’: The Intra-NATO Debate on Trade with the Soviet Bloc, 1962–5
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    Chapter 20 Oil: Too Important to be Left to the Oilmen? Britain and the First Oil Crisis, 1970–3
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    Chapter 21 British Policy Towards Socialist Countries in the 1970s: Trade as a Cornerstone of Détente
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    Chapter 22 ‘Paying Our Way in the World’: The FCO, Export Promotion and Iran in the 1970s
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    Chapter 23 Thwarting Thatcher: Britain, Nigeria and the Rhodesian Crisis in 1979
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    Chapter 24 Missing the ‘Klondike Rush?’ British Trade with China 1971–9 and the Politics of Defence Sales
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    Chapter 25 Commercial Diplomatic Policy and Practice: a practitioner’s perspective