The Foreign Office, Commerce and British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century
Contents -- List of Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 2: "A Kind of Black Hole"?: Commercial Diplomacy Before 1914 -- Notes -- Chapter 3: In Pursuit of National Security: The Foreign Office and Middle Eastern Oil, 1908-39 -- I -- II -- III -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: The De Bunsen Mission to South America, 1918 -- Brazil -- Uruguay -- Argentina -- Chile -- Bolivia, Peru and Beyond -- Aftermath and Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 5: The Age of Illusion? The Department of Overseas Trade Between the Two World Wars: Three Case Studies -- Bulgaria 1919-1930 -- Soviet Russia 1929 -- Germany 1936-1939 -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British Government and the Reparation (Recovery) Act, 1927-8 -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Imperial Solutions to International Crises: Alliances, Trade and the Ottawa Imperial Economic Conference of 1932 -- Backstories and Reversals: Trade, the Commonwealth and Foreign Policy -- British Preparations for the Ottawa Conference -- Ottawa Imperial Economic Conference, 21 July-20 August 1932 -- Reaction -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 8: The Foreign Office, Foreign Policy and Commerce: Anglo-German Relations in the 1930s -- Notes -- Chapter 9: 'The Jackal's Share': Whitehall, the City of London and British Policy Towards the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-9 -- Notes -- Chapter 10: British Industry and US-UK Economic Diplomacy During the Second World War -- Notes -- Chapter 11: Power Relations: The Foreign Office, the Board of Trade and the Development of Civil Nuclear Power, 1945-70 -- Atoms for Peace and Civil Nuclear Power -- Civil Nuclear Power and Overseas Sales -- The Gas Centrifuge, Uranium Enrichment and European Integration -- Conclusion -- Notes
