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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460663903321

Autore

Wilson Joan Hoff

Titolo

American business & foreign policy : 1920-1933 / / Joan Hoff Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1971

©1971

ISBN

0-8131-8678-1

0-8131-6507-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (358 p.)

Disciplina

327.73

Soggetti

Electronic books.

United States Commercial policy

United States Foreign relations 1923-1929

United States Foreign relations 1929-1933

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Chapter One, General Business Views & Foreign Policy Trends, 1920; Chapter Two, Disarmament & the Peace Movement, 1920-1933; Chapter Three, American Commercial Policy, 1920-1933; Chapter Four, Hoover & Foreign Loan Supervision, 1920-1933; Chapter Five, Allied War Debts & German Reparations, 1920-1933; Chapter Six, Manifestations of the Closed Door, 1920-1933; Chapter Seven, Manifestations of the Open Door, 1920-1933; Chapter Eight, A Glimpse of the Future: Manchuria, 1931-1933; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J

KL; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

With increasing world economic interdependence and a new position as a creditor nation, the American business community became more actively and vocally concerned with foreign policy after World War I than ever before. This book details the response of American businessmen to such foreign policy issues as the tariff, disarmament, allied debts, loans, and the Manchurian crisis.Far from presenting a monolithic front, the business community fragmented into nationalist and internationalist camps, according to this study. Division over each issue



varied with the size, type, and geographic region of