Overview
- Presents the first truly global history of the Bretton Woods conference
- Highlights figures and groups who are key yet rarely studied in relation to Bretton Woods, such as Cordell Hull, Dean Acheson, and the Federal Reserve
- Argues that the Bretton Woods negotiations linked financial and trade interests and so laid the basis for a post-war free trade regime
- Appeals to scholars of international, diplomatic, and economic history
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The World of the Roosevelts (WOOROO)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Bretton Woods: The Pre-War Order
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Multinational Perspectives: Asia and the Americas
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Public Figures and Private Sector Interests
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The Trade Follow-Up: The ITO and the GATT
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Keywords
- Bretton Woods
- Bretton Woods Conference
- Bretton Woods System
- Post World War II
- Postwar Order
- Harry Dexter White
- John Meynard Keynes
- International Monetary Fund
- Bank of International Settlements
- foreign exchange markets
- open markets
- monetary order
- open system of trade
- free trade
- history of multilateralism
About this book
This book repositions the groundbreaking Bretton Woods conference of July 1944 as the first large-scale multilateral North-South dialogue on global financial governance. It moves beyond the usual focus on Anglo-American interests by highlighting the influence of delegations from Latin America, India, the Soviet Union, France, and others. It also investigates how state and private interests intermingled, collided, and compromised during the negotiations on the way to a set of regulations and institutions that still partly frame global economic governance in the early twenty-first century. Together, these essays lay the groundwork for a more comprehensive analysis of Bretton Woods as a pivotal site of multilateralism in international history.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Giles Scott-Smith holds the Ernst van der Beugel Chair in the Diplomatic History of Transatlantic Relations since WW II at Leiden University, and is the academic director of the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies, Middelburg, the Netherlands. He is the co-editor of the series Key Studies in Diplomacy with Manchester University Press.
J. Simon Rofe is Senior Lecturer in Diplomacy and International Studies at SOAS University of London, UK. He is the co-editor of the series Key Studies in Diplomacy with Manchester University Press and the author of numerous books and articles.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Perspectives on the Bretton Woods Conference and the Post-War World Order
Editors: Giles Scott-Smith, J. Simon Rofe
Series Title: The World of the Roosevelts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60891-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60890-7Published: 04 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86952-0Published: 14 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60891-4Published: 07 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2578-7225
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5285
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 305
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, US History, Modern History, Economic History