Books by Thomas C. Mills

This book provides readers with an insight to a previously unexplored aspect of Anglo-American economic diplomacy during the Second World War. It explores how relations between the two countries in South America related to the development of the economic landscape of the post-war world - the economic world that we are, to a large extent, still living within.Drawing on extensive secondary reading and archival research in official and private collections, it challenges existing scholarship (including notions about the nature of the economic diplomacy undertaken by the wartime allies) and makes an informed and original contribution to research on Anglo-American relations.It explores a number of topics relevant to the broader process of post-war economic diplomacy:*the Lend-Lease Export White Paper and its effects on British exports to South America*economic warfare policies such as blacklisting and the Axis replacement programme*particular industries which had a strategic value as well as commercial importance, such as telecommunications*enterprises which took on an importance beyond their intrinsic worth, such as the central Brazilian railway