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

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Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Introduction....Pages 1-24
“A Kind of Black Hole”?: Commercial Diplomacy Before 1914....Pages 25-68
In Pursuit of National Security: The Foreign Office and Middle Eastern Oil, 1908–39....Pages 69-87
The De Bunsen Mission to South America, 1918....Pages 89-114
The Age of Illusion? The Department of Overseas Trade Between the Two World Wars: Three Case Studies....Pages 115-140
Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British Government and the Reparation (Recovery) Act, 1927–8....Pages 141-163
Imperial Solutions to International Crises: Alliances, Trade and the Ottawa Imperial Economic Conference of 1932....Pages 165-187
The Foreign Office, Foreign Policy and Commerce: Anglo-German Relations in the 1930s....Pages 189-209
‘The Jackal’s Share’: Whitehall, the City of London and British Policy Towards the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–9....Pages 211-231
British Industry and US–UK Economic Diplomacy During the Second World War....Pages 233-252
Power Relations: The Foreign Office, the Board of Trade and the Development of Civil Nuclear Power, 1945–70....Pages 253-275
‘Keeping Her Powder Dry’: Turkey’s Commercial Ties with Britain in the 1940s....Pages 277-295
The Foreign Office, the Board of Trade and Anglo-Italian Relations in the Aftermath of the Second World War....Pages 297-321
Britain and Antarctica: Keeping the Economic Dimension in Its Place....Pages 323-343
Anglo-Spanish Commercial Relations, 1946–50....Pages 345-359
When Strategic Foreign Policy Considerations Did Not Trump Economics: British Cold War Policies on East-West Trade....Pages 361-380
The Business of Decolonization: The Foreign Office, British Business, and the End of Empire in Kuwait and Qatar....Pages 381-399
The Foreign Office and Preparing for the First United Nations Conference on Trade and Development....Pages 401-419
Commerce as a British Cold War ‘Heresy’: The Intra-NATO Debate on Trade with the Soviet Bloc, 1962–5....Pages 421-442
Oil: Too Important to be Left to the Oilmen? Britain and the First Oil Crisis, 1970–3....Pages 443-464
British Policy Towards Socialist Countries in the 1970s: Trade as a Cornerstone of Détente....Pages 465-485
‘Paying Our Way in the World’: The FCO, Export Promotion and Iran in the 1970s....Pages 487-505
Thwarting Thatcher: Britain, Nigeria and the Rhodesian Crisis in 1979....Pages 507-526
Missing the ‘Klondike Rush?’ British Trade with China 1971–9 and the Politics of Defence Sales....Pages 527-553
Commercial Diplomatic Policy and Practice: a practitioner’s perspective....Pages 555-574
Back Matter....Pages 575-594