Description:"This account of the exhaustive trade negotiations between the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom in the nineteen-thirties offers a new approach to the history of the North Atlantic Triangle during that difficult period. The author describes in detail the diplomatic and political background of three agreements (The Canadian-American accords of 1935 and 1938, and the Anglo-American pact of 1938) and reassess the economic rapprochement that was finally achieved. The motivating forces at work within the triangle are analyzed: Americans were determined to resolve the world's political unrest through a revival of international commerce; Canadians hesitated to give up the preferential position they had enjoyed as part of British empire; and the British, preoccupied with appeasing Germany, postponed their agreement with the United States until after the confrontation at Munich. The characters and inclinations of political leaders are skillfully drawn into the narrative. Professor Kottman refutes the theory that Canada acted as a "linchpin," or mediator, between Britain and the United States. Particular attention is given to the American reciprocal trade program in an effort to bring this aspect of American foreign policy between the world was into better historical perspective. Particular attention is given to the American reciprocal trade program in an effort to bring this aspect of American foreign policy between the world wars into better historical perspective. To explore the details of the negotiation, which historians have neglected until now, the author has relied largely on unpublished sources, including the private papers of Frankling D. Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, Norman H. Davis, Richard B. Bennett, Charles Dunning, Henry Morgenthau, J. Pierrepont Moffat, and John W. Dafoe, and State Department files". - Publisher.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Reciprocity and the North Atlantic Triangle, 1932-1938. To get started finding Reciprocity and the North Atlantic Triangle, 1932-1938, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
320
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Ithaca, N.Y : Cornell University Press
Release
1968
ISBN
IZJKAAAAMAAJ
Reciprocity and the North Atlantic Triangle, 1932-1938
Description: "This account of the exhaustive trade negotiations between the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom in the nineteen-thirties offers a new approach to the history of the North Atlantic Triangle during that difficult period. The author describes in detail the diplomatic and political background of three agreements (The Canadian-American accords of 1935 and 1938, and the Anglo-American pact of 1938) and reassess the economic rapprochement that was finally achieved. The motivating forces at work within the triangle are analyzed: Americans were determined to resolve the world's political unrest through a revival of international commerce; Canadians hesitated to give up the preferential position they had enjoyed as part of British empire; and the British, preoccupied with appeasing Germany, postponed their agreement with the United States until after the confrontation at Munich. The characters and inclinations of political leaders are skillfully drawn into the narrative. Professor Kottman refutes the theory that Canada acted as a "linchpin," or mediator, between Britain and the United States. Particular attention is given to the American reciprocal trade program in an effort to bring this aspect of American foreign policy between the world was into better historical perspective. Particular attention is given to the American reciprocal trade program in an effort to bring this aspect of American foreign policy between the world wars into better historical perspective. To explore the details of the negotiation, which historians have neglected until now, the author has relied largely on unpublished sources, including the private papers of Frankling D. Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, Norman H. Davis, Richard B. Bennett, Charles Dunning, Henry Morgenthau, J. Pierrepont Moffat, and John W. Dafoe, and State Department files". - Publisher.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Reciprocity and the North Atlantic Triangle, 1932-1938. To get started finding Reciprocity and the North Atlantic Triangle, 1932-1938, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.