ABSTRACT
This chapter covers the years between 1935 and 1943 when Ida Greaves was in the United States. The appointments she held at Iowa State College and Barnard College in New York City were not at a level commensurate with her excellent qualifications and experience. Nevertheless she was able to continue with her research covering labour supply in tropical areas, and the historical experience of colonisation. She published (1936) an impressive and prescient critique of the expansionary interwar claims of Italy, Germany and Japan, in the journal Foreign Affairs, and also applied (unsuccessfully) for Grant-in-Aid for funding to study the economic basis of imperialism. There was a brief but remarkable three-month assignment in 1941, employed by Ralph Robey, as the liberal social scientist in the “Textbook Controversy”.
