The Dynamics of Business-Government Relations: Industry and Exports, 1893-1921

by William H. Becker

Overview

This work represents an important advance in the study of the interrelationships between business and U.S. foreign policy. Focusing on a single aspect of this broad field—the growth of industrial exports—William H. Becker demonstrates the complexity of business interests and behavior, of the bureaucratic and political forces at work in Congress and the Departments of Commerce and State, and of the interplay between business and governmental practices and concerns. In so doing, he provides the first full analysis of the industrial, political, and bureaucratic context in which the U.S. became a major exporter of industrial products.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226041216
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	11/01/1981
Series:	Chicago Original Paperback Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

William H. Becker is associate professor of history at University of Maryland Baltimore County.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. American Manufacturers and the World Market: An Overview
2. Depression and Foreign Trade in the 1890s
3. Private Economic Power and the World Market, 1901-14
4. Congress and Trade Expansion: The Tariff, 1897-1917
5. Congress, Business, and Bureaucracy: The Department of State and Consular Reorganization
6. Coordinating Foreign Trade Expansion: The Department of Commerce, 1913-17
7. World War and Foreign Trade
8. The Failure of Industry-Government Coordination: The Postwar Years
9. The Limits of Industry-Government Relations and Export Trade Expansion, 1893-1921
Appendixes
Notes
Bibliography
Index