Global Perspectives on the Bretton Woods Conference and the Post-War World Order

1. Bretton Woods: A Global Perspective
Giles Scott-Smith, J. Simon Rofe

Part I. Bretton Woods: The Pre-War Order

2. What’s Been Missing from Conventional Histories of Bretton Woods?
Eric Helleiner

3. “Prelude to the Future”: The Antecedents of the Bretton Woods Architecture
J. Simon Rofe

Part II. Multinational Perspectives: Europe

4. The Benelux’s Monetary Diplomacy and the Bretton Woods Conference
Thierry Grosbois

5. French Monetary Policy and the Bretton Woods System: Criticisms, Proposals and Conflicts
Eric Monnet

6. The Soviet Union and the Bretton Woods Conference
Vladimir O. Pechatnov

Part III. Multinational Perspectives: Asia and the Americas

7. “Asia” at Bretton Woods: India, China, and Australasia in Comparative Perspective
Michael Franczak

8. Assessing the “Multilateral” Nature of the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference: An Analysis of Indian Participation
Archna Negi

9. Voice and Vote for the Weaker Nations: Mexico’s Bretton Woods
Christy Thornton

10. Canada and Bretton Woods
Kathleen Britt Rasmussen

Part IV. Public Figures and Private Sector Interests

11. Beyen at Bretton Woods: “Much More Significant Under the Surface…”
Ben Wubs

12. Dean Acheson, Bretton Woods and the American Role in the International Economy
Michael F. Hopkins

13. “New Lanes in Uncharted Seas”: The Federal Reserve and Bretton Woods
Timothy W. Wintour

Part V. The Trade Follow-Up: The ITO and the GATT

14. The Man Who Wasn’t There: Cordell Hull, Bretton Woods, and the Creation of the GATT
David B. Woolner

15. Where Was Trade at Bretton Woods?
Francine McKenzie

16. Bretton Woods, the International Trade Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization
Ruth Jachertz

Nyckelord: History, World History, Global and Transnational History, US History, Modern History, Economic History