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British Protectionism and the International Economy: Overseas Commercial Policy in the 1930s - Hardcover

Rooth, Tim

 
9780521416085: British Protectionism and the International Economy: Overseas Commercial Policy in the 1930s
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521416086 ISBN 13: 9780521416085
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Synopsis

When, in the winter of 1931–2, Britain abandoned first the gold standard and then free trade, two potent symbols of her nineteenth-century international economic predominance had gone within the space of little more than six months. Tim Rooth's comprehensive 1993 study in the political economy of protectionism examines the forces behind the abandonment of free trade and the way that Britain then used protection to bargain for trade advantages in the markets of her chief suppliers of food and raw materials. Dr Rooth also examines Britain's economic relations with Germany and the USA in the deteriorating international political situation of the late 1930s. The retreat from multilateral trade policies, the growth of protection and the concomitant development of regional economic groupings have obvious parallels with current developments in the world economy.

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Review

"...the study makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the 1930s." American Historical Review

"This thorough account of the complexities and frustration of bilateral trade negotiations in conditions of widespread unemployment is a moral tale for policymakers and a valuable contribution to the history of international economic policy." Journal of Economic History

"...a most learned book, performing a task which had to be done at some time. Specialists will be most grateful for it, and others will gain some insight into the narrow world of the 1930's." Sidney Pollard, The International History Review

Book Description

Tim Rooth's comprehensive 1993 study examines the forces behind the British abandonment of free trade in the 1930s and discusses the way that Britain used protection to bargain for trade advantages in the markets of her chief suppliers of food and raw materials. This historical study has obvious parallels with current developments in world trade.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1993
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521416086
ISBN 13 
9780521416085
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
374