British Economic Policy and Empire, 1919-1939
, by Drummond,Ian M.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780415381901 | 0415381908
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 4/10/2006
Preface | p. 7 |
A Note on Sources and Documents | p. 8 |
A Note on Terminology and Coverage | p. 9 |
Making Imperial Economic Policy | |
Patterns of Trade, Migration, and Capital Movements | p. 17 |
The Imperial Vision: Dream and Action in the Nineteen-twenties | p. 36 |
Ottawa and After: British Protectionism and the Empire in the Nineteen-thirties | p. 89 |
Indian Tariffs, Cottons, and Japanese Competition, 1919-1939 | p. 121 |
Documents on Imperial Economic Policy | |
The United Kingdom Government commits itself to Imperial Preference and Empire Settlement at the first Imperial War Cabinet, 1917 | p. 143 |
The Cabinet Committee on the Trade Relations of the United Kingdom with the Empire broods upon a system of Imperial Preference, 1918 | p. 150 |
The Government Emigration Committee transmits L. S. Amery's memorandum on Empire Settlement, 1919 | p. 154 |
Members of the Government discuss unemployment and the state of trade, 1919 | p. 155 |
The Cabinet Unemployment Committee urges the subsidization of emigrants, 1920 | p. 166 |
The British Government warns certain Dominions that they will be asked to contribute to migration schemes, 1920 | p. 167 |
A Cabinet decision, 1920 | p. 168 |
The United Kingdom asks the Dominions to help with Empire Settlement, 1920 | p. 168 |
The Empire Settlement Act of 1922 | p. 169 |
Lord Milner's Tariff Advisory Committee reports, 1923 | p. 170 |
Lord Arnold urges the Labour Government to eschew Imperial Preference, 1924 | p. 174 |
Colonial Development Act, 1929 | p. 178 |
The Prime Minister of Canada explains his strategy with respect to Imperial Preference, 1930 | p. 180 |
J. H. Thomas begs his Cabinet colleagues to take some decisions and make some concessions to the Dominions at the 1930 Imperial Conference | p. 182 |
South Africa's pessimism with respect to British tariff policy, 1930 | p. 186 |
The permanent under-secretary in the Dominions Office explains British tactics to the British High Commissioner in Ottawa, 1931 | p. 186 |
Sir William Clark reports a telephone conversation with the Prime Minister of Canada, 1932 | p. 188 |
The British Government tells the Dominions to speed their Ottawa preparations and to make reasonable requests and concessions, 1932 | p. 189 |
A further conversation between Sir William Clark and R. B. Bennett, 1932 | p. 190 |
The Australian Prime Minister suggests that Australia and Canada coordinate their schemes, 1932 | p. 190 |
The agenda for the Ottawa Conference, 1932 | p. 191 |
The committee of officials reminds the British Government that it must decide many things before the Ottawa Conference, 1932 | p. 193 |
The Canadian Prime Minister expresses his displeasure with the aid which the Canadian Manufacturers' Association has given him, 1932 | p. 195 |
The state of the Conference: 'Appreciation' sent to London, 1932 | p. 195 |
Frederick Field reports on the proceedings at the Ottawa Conference, 1932 | p. 197 |
R. B. Bennett and strategy at the Ottawa Conference: advice and assumptions, 1932 | p. 200 |
R. B. Bennett and the proceedings at Ottawa, 1932 | p. 203 |
The Ottawa Agreements with the principal Dominions and with India, 1932 | p. 205 |
An Anglo-New Zealand customs union? 1933 | p. 218 |
An economic general staff for the Empire? 1932-33 | p. 219 |
J. H. Thomas warns Ramsay MacDonald about the tendencies in British agricultural policy, 1934 | p. 220 |
J. H. Thomas and Walter Elliot discuss levy-subsidies, 1934 | p. 222 |
Robert Menzies writes to Richard Casey about the Anglo-Australian meat talks of 1935 | p. 224 |
A senior Dominions Office official writes informally to the British High Commissioner in Australia, explaining the meat talks, 1936 | p. 225 |
The Cabinet Committee on Trade and Agriculture discuss the Dominions and trade policy, 1936 | p. 229 |
A civil servant's parody of the Ottawa negotiations, 1932 | p. 237 |
Index | p. 239 |
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