A changing of the guard : Anglo-American relations, 1941-1946 / Randall Bennett Woods

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1990. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 473 pp.; 25 cm. Contents; An American ideology: modified free trade and lend-lease, 1941-1942 -- To pay the piper: multilateralism and the British dilemma, 1942 -- Good as gold: liquidity, bureaucracy, and the Keynes-White plans for international currency stabilization, 1942-1943 -- No entangling alliances: isolationism, anti-imperialism, appeasement, and the politics of the Grand Alliance, 1942-1943 -- Birth or stillbirth of a monetary system? The Bretton Woods agreements and the triumph of the United States treasury, 1944 -- Competition and cooperation: American aid to Britain, 1943-1944 -- Multilateralism interpreted: the debate over full employment and foreign trade, 1943-1944 -- Heads I win, tails you lose: Congress, the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1945, and the ratification of Bretton Woods, 1945 -- Mediation and breaking the Cordon Sanitaire: Great Britain, Russia, and the United States, 1944-1945 -- Alliance renewed: British labor and the harnessing of America, 1945-1946 -- Ends and means: the termination of Lend-Lease and the origins of Anglo-American financial negotiations, 1945 -- The tie that binds: the Anglo-American Financial Agreement, 1945-1946 -- Politics and diplomacy: Britain, the United States, and the struggle for ratification, 1946. Subjects; International finance History 20th century. World War, 1939-1945 Diplomatic history. Economics. Foreign relations.