The Foreign Office, Commerce and British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century
This book addresses the interface of the British Foreign Office, foreign policy and commerce in the twentieth century. Two related questions are considered: what did the Foreign Office do to support British commerce, and how did commerce influence British
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Foreign Office,
Commerce and British Foreign Policy
in the
Twentieth Century Edited by JOHN FISHER, EFFIE G. H. PEDALIU and RICHARD SMITH
The Foreign Office, Commerce and British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century
John Fisher • Effie G.H. Pedaliu • Richard Smith Editors
The Foreign Office, Commerce and British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century
Editors John Fisher School of History University of the West of England Bristol, United Kingdom
Richard Smith Foreign & Commonwealth Office London, United Kingdom
Effie G.H. Pedaliu LSE, LSE IDEAS London, United Kingdom
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Contents
1 Introduction 1 John Fisher, Effie Pedaliu, and Richard Smith 2 “A Kind of Black Hole”?: Commercial Diplomacy Before 1914 25 T.G. Otte 3 In Pursuit of National Security: The Foreign Office and Middle Eastern Oil, 1908–39 69 Fiona Venn 4 The De Bunsen Mission to South America, 1918 89 John Fisher 5 The Age of Illusion? The Department of Overseas Trade Between the Two World Wars: Three Case Studies 115 Miklos Lojko 6 Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British Government and the Reparation (Recovery) Act, 1927–8 141 Gaynor Johnson v
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7 Imperial Solutions to International Crises: Alliances, Trade and the Ottawa Imperial Economic Conference of 1932
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