Britain, America and rearmament in the 1930s
Subtitle: the cost of failure
By: Christopher Price.
Publisher: Palgrave; Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Chamberlain, Neville, 1869-1940.; Foreign exchange -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Causes.; Great Britain -- Foreign economic relations -- United States.; United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Great Britain.; Great Britain -- Military policy -- History -- 20th century.; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1936-1945.; Great Britain -- Defenses -- History -- 20th century.; Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-224) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 New Rules for an Old Game: the Shaping of Fourth Arm Concepts in a Fluid Environment, 1919-31 1; title: 1.1 Peace, war and a new concept of financial control 2; title: 1.2 British attitudes to gold between war and crisis 12; title: 1.3 American attitudes to gold and the onset of crisis 15; title: 1.4 A chance to rebuild 17; title: 2 'On the Upgrade': Britain's Unwelcome Recovery, 1931-36 24; title: 2.1 The economic foundations of strategic strength 25; title: 2.2 American problems 30; title: 2.3 Limiting factors in the perception and consolidation of British strength 36; title: 3 'The Destiny of Tomorrow': a Transatlantic Alliance Forms against Ottawa, 1936 45; title: 3.1 Opening shots 46; title: 3.2 A different tack 49; title: 3.3 Morgenthau tips the scales 58; title: 3.4 A decisive shift 61; title: 4 The Devil in the Detail: a Necessary Case for Economic Danger and the Formulation of the Fourth Arm Policy, 1937-38 66; title: 4.1 Breaches in the dam 67; title: 4.2 The home front 71; title: 4.3 Manoeuvres 74; title: 4.4 Tying the knot 80; title: 4.5 Available 'weapons from the authoritarian armoury' 84; title: 4.6 The starting gun 86; title: 5 Between Hitler and Wall Street: Undeclared War versus Business as Usual, March-October 1938 92; title: 5.1 Ideological constraints on policy 92; title: 5.2 A sea change 94; title: 5.3 The sterling crisis begins 95; title: 5.4 The 'Roosevelt recession' and the 'billion-four' 98; title: 5.5 Morgenthau's gold dilemma 101; title: 5.6 Morgenthau's sterling dilemma 103; title: 5.7 Morgenthau sees his way clear 107; title: 5.8 'Business as usual' tested to the limit 109; title: 5.9 Paralysis in Washington 112; title: 6 'It Seems like Insanity': the Anglo-American Trade Agreement of 1938 and the Point of No Return 118; title: 6.1 The trade agreement: an invisible assassin 119; title: 6.2 The Cabinet falls hesitantly into line 123; title: 6.3 Irrational hopes and fears 129; title: 7 A 'Maginot Line for the Pound': Profligacy in Defence of a Bankrupt Policy, November 1938-January 1939 132; title: 7.1 Holding the line 132; title: 7.2 Thinking the unthinkable: exchange control 134; title: 7.3 American fears 135; title: 7.4 British reassurances 136; title: 7.5 Hard facts and righteous satisfaction in London 138; title: 7.6 The bear squeeze fails 139; title: 7.7 Desperate remedies: 'absolutely shooting the works' 144; title: 7.8 A parting of the ways 147; title: 7.9 Defence pays the price 148; title: 7.10 Policy consumes itself 155; title: 8 'Not a Damned Bit Good': the Concealed Catastrophe, 1939 159; title: 8.1 The 'large blank spaces on the map' 159; title: 8.2 The 'time which we dare not regard as peace' 164; title: 8.3 A minor revolt 169; title: 8.4 The crunch: 'a real bad day' 174; title: 8.5 Preparations for war: 'well into the 1917 stage' 179; title: Conclusion 182.