Post-War Planning on the Periphery: Anglo-American Economic Diplomacy in South America, 1939-1945

Explores Anglo-American economic diplomacy in South America during the Second World War Thomas Mills explores Anglo-American relations in the previously neglected region of South America during the Second World War to add a new dimension to our understanding of the two powers. He shows how these relations followed a very different pattern to the high-level discussions concerning the economic shape of the post-war world that were going on at the same time. In this way, he highlights the need for a more nuanced understanding of the broader process of Anglo-American economic diplomacy. Based on extensive archival research and a thorough knowledge of the secondary literature, this is a major addition to the study of Anglo-American relations in the 20th century. Explores a number of topics relevant to the broader process of post-war economic diplomacy: The Lend-Lease Export White Paper and its effects on British exports to South America Economic warfare policies such as blacklisting and the Axis replacement programme Particular industries which had a strategic value as well as commercial importance, such as telecommunications Enterprises which took on an importance beyond their intrinsic worth, such as the central Brazilian railway

This book provides readers with an insight to a previously unexplored aspect of Anglo-American economic diplomacy during the Second World War. It explores how relations between the two countries in South America related to the development of the economic landscape of the post-war world - the economic world that we are, to a large extent, still living within. Drawing on extensive secondary reading and archival research in official and private collections, it challenges existing scholarship (including notions about the nature of the economic diplomacy undertaken by the wartime allies) and makes a

Introduction -- 1. The US and Britain in South America (1800c. -- 1939) -- 2. US Criticisms and British Mollification (Autumn 1939 -- Winter 1941-1942) -- 3. British Suspicions and Attempts at Cooperation (Winter 1941-1942 -- Autumn 1942) -- 4. Challenges to Multilateralism and the Return of British Suspicions (Autumn 1942 -- Spring 1943) -- 5. The Quest for a Self-Denying Ordinance (Spring 1943 -- Winter 1944-1945) -- Conclusion

Thomas Mills explores Anglo-American relations in the previously neglected region of South America during the Second World War to add a new dimension to our understanding of the two powers. He shows how these relations followed a very different pattern to the high-level discussions concerning the economic shape of the post-war world that were going on at the same time. In this way, he highlights the need for a more nuanced understanding of the broader process of Anglo-American economic diplomacy