Bretton Woods Conference, July 1944. Image source: UN photoMarc-William Palen
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H-Diplo Article Review
No. 909
10 December 2019
Article Review Editors: Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse
Web and Production Editor: George Fujii
Michael De Groot. “Western Europe and the Collapse of Bretton Woods.” International Journal 74:2 (2019): 282-300. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0020702019852698
URL: https://hdiplo.org/to/AR909
Wyatt is surely correct about this crucial economic decision on the part of Richard Nixon. I reviewed this book for the Journal of Military History not long ago, and reading it I was struck by Nixon's tactical approach to implementing the (unfortunately-titled) "New Economic Policy" -- abandonment of the Bretton Woods Framework -- in the face of European opposition.
H-Diplo Article Reviews
No. 598
Published on 15 March 2016
H-Diplo Article Review Editors: Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse
Web and Production Editor: George Fujii
Commissioned for H-Diplo by Thomas Maddux
PDF version of H-Diplo Article Review 598 on David Ekbladh. “American Asylum: The United States and the Campaign to Transplant the Technical League, 1939-1940.” Diplomatic History 39:4 (September 2015): 629-660. DOI: 10:1093/dh/dhuo44. http://dx.doi.org/10:1093/dh/dhuo44
H-Diplo Roundtable Review
Volume XVI, No. 29 (2015)
29 June 2015
Roundtable Editors: Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse
Roundtable and Web Production Editor: George Fujii
Commissioned for H-Diplo by Thomas R. Maddux
Introduction by Thomas Maddux
