ABSTRACT
Anglo-American relations were transformed during the First World War. Britain was already in long-term economic decline relative to the United States, but this decline was accelerated by the war, which was militarily a victory for Britain, but economically a catastrophe.
This book sets out the economic, and in particular, the financial relations between the two powers during the war, setting it in the context of the more familiar political and diplomatic relationship. Particular attention is paid to the British war missions sent out to the USA, which were the agents for much of the financial and economic negotiation, and which are rescued here from underserved historical obscurity.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |10 pages
Introduction Anglo-American Relations, 1895–1918
part |85 pages
1914–1917 and American Neutrality
chapter |10 pages
Purchasing and the Allies, 1914–1917
chapter |19 pages
Financial Relations, 1916–1917
part |129 pages
1917–1918 and the Love-Hate Relationship