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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ridgeway, George L., author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1938]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword / Shotwell, James T.

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-88648-9

OCLC:

1100432041