The first study of the League of Nations' work in promoting economic and financial co-operation in the wake of the Great Depression, and the first major account of the League's relationship with the USA in the 1930s and 1940s.

Patricia Clavin was educated at eleven different schools before studying History at King's College, London. She is Professor of International History and the Zeitlyn Fellow and Tutor in History at Jesus College, Oxford.

• Introduction


• 1: The Multiverse of the League, 1920-1929


• 2: From Boom to Bust, 1929-1933


• 3: Conferences and their (Dis)contents, 1933-1934


• 4: All Things Trade and Currency, All Nations Great and Small, 1933-1936


• 5: Society and Economy in Global Partnership, 1935-1938


• 6: Scrutiny and Strategy: Contesting Economic Depressions, 1937-1939


• 7: The League at War and in Pieces, 1939-1940


• 8: Made in the USA, 1941-1943


• 9: The Architecture of a New World Order, 1944-1945


• Conclusion


• Sources and Bibliography