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Merchants of Peace : Twenty Years of Business Diplomacy Through the International Chamber of Commerce 1919–1938 / George L. Ridgeway.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1938]Copyright date: ©1938Description: 1 online resource (444 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780231919920
  • 9780231886482
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  • HF294 .R5
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part I. Prewar - A Business Men's International 1905 - 1914 -- I. The International Congress of Chambers of Commerce and Commercial and Industrial Associations 1905-1914 -- Part II. Postwar - A Business Men's League of Nations and The Reconstruction Movement -- II. A Business Peace Conference -- III. Origins of the Reconstruction Movement -- IV. The Founding of the International Chamber of Commerce -- V. Finance, Labor, and Industry at the Conference of Spa -- VI. The Organization of International Reconstruction -- VII. A Business Settlement of Reparations—The First Effort -- VIII. The Return to Politics -- IX. The First Congress of the International Chamber of Commerce -- X. Toward the Dawes Plan and European Reconstruction -- XI. Danubian Reconstruction -- XII. The United States Sponsors a Business Settlement of Reparations -- XIII. The Rome Business Congress -- XIV. The Rome Congress and World Opinion -- XV. The Business Settlement of Reparations -- Part III. Economic Disarmament -- XVI. The Evolution of International Tariff Policy -- XVII. A World Customs Conference in Preparation -- XVIII. Business and Officialdom at the League Customs Conference -- XIX. Proposal for a World Economic Conference in 1927 -- XX. The International Chamber at the 1927 Conference -- XXI. "The Year of Commercial Treaties" -- Part IV. The Diplomacy of Technics -- XXII. The Business of the International Chamber of Commerce -- XXIII. Industrial Property -- XXIV. Double Taxation -- XXV. Communications and Transit -- XXVI. The Hague Rules: Bills of Lading -- XXVII. A World Court of Business -- Part V. World Business Statesmanship and Catastrophe -- XXVIII. Seeds of Catastrophe -- XXIX. The Statesmanship of Nationalism -- XXX. The Statesmanship of World Business -- XXXI. The Sabotage of Parliament -- XXXII. The Breakdown: A Proposal for Economic Peace and Its Rejection -- XXXIII. World Business Opinion and the New Statesmanship of Reform -- Appendices -- A. Recommendations of the Joint Committee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the International Chamber of Commerce -- B. The International Chamber of Commerce in 1938 -- Index
Summary: Discusses the efforts of the International Chamber of Commerce to remove the barriers to international trade and lessen the impediments to national understanding, focusing on discussions of business men and upon the evolution of the conception of international economic cooperation in business minds.
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Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part I. Prewar - A Business Men's International 1905 - 1914 -- I. The International Congress of Chambers of Commerce and Commercial and Industrial Associations 1905-1914 -- Part II. Postwar - A Business Men's League of Nations and The Reconstruction Movement -- II. A Business Peace Conference -- III. Origins of the Reconstruction Movement -- IV. The Founding of the International Chamber of Commerce -- V. Finance, Labor, and Industry at the Conference of Spa -- VI. The Organization of International Reconstruction -- VII. A Business Settlement of Reparations—The First Effort -- VIII. The Return to Politics -- IX. The First Congress of the International Chamber of Commerce -- X. Toward the Dawes Plan and European Reconstruction -- XI. Danubian Reconstruction -- XII. The United States Sponsors a Business Settlement of Reparations -- XIII. The Rome Business Congress -- XIV. The Rome Congress and World Opinion -- XV. The Business Settlement of Reparations -- Part III. Economic Disarmament -- XVI. The Evolution of International Tariff Policy -- XVII. A World Customs Conference in Preparation -- XVIII. Business and Officialdom at the League Customs Conference -- XIX. Proposal for a World Economic Conference in 1927 -- XX. The International Chamber at the 1927 Conference -- XXI. "The Year of Commercial Treaties" -- Part IV. The Diplomacy of Technics -- XXII. The Business of the International Chamber of Commerce -- XXIII. Industrial Property -- XXIV. Double Taxation -- XXV. Communications and Transit -- XXVI. The Hague Rules: Bills of Lading -- XXVII. A World Court of Business -- Part V. World Business Statesmanship and Catastrophe -- XXVIII. Seeds of Catastrophe -- XXIX. The Statesmanship of Nationalism -- XXX. The Statesmanship of World Business -- XXXI. The Sabotage of Parliament -- XXXII. The Breakdown: A Proposal for Economic Peace and Its Rejection -- XXXIII. World Business Opinion and the New Statesmanship of Reform -- Appendices -- A. Recommendations of the Joint Committee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the International Chamber of Commerce -- B. The International Chamber of Commerce in 1938 -- Index

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Discusses the efforts of the International Chamber of Commerce to remove the barriers to international trade and lessen the impediments to national understanding, focusing on discussions of business men and upon the evolution of the conception of international economic cooperation in business minds.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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