<p>Introduction<br> John Fisher, Effie Pedaliu & Richard Smith<br>1. ‘A kind of black hole?’: commercial diplomacy before 1914.<br>T. G. Otte<br>2. In pursuit of national security: the Foreign Office and Middle Eastern oil, 1908-39.<br>Fiona Venn<br>3. The de Bunsen Mission to South America, 1918.<br>John Fisher<br>4. The Age of Illusion? The Department of Overseas Trade between the two World Wars: three case studies.<br>Miklos Lójko<br>5. Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British Government and the Reparation (Recovery) Act, 1927–8.<br>Gaynor Johnson<br>6. Imperial Solutions to International Crises: alliances, trade and the Ottawa Imperial Economic Conference of 1932.<br>Francine McKenzie<br>7. The Foreign Office, foreign policy and commerce: Anglo-German relations in the 1930s.<br>Neil Forbes<br>8. Interpreting the ‘New Order in East Asia’: The City of London and British policy towards the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–9.<br>Antony Best<br>9. British Industry and US-UK Economic Diplomacy during the Second World War.<br>Thomas Mills<br>10. Power Relations: The Foreign Office, the Board of Trade and the development of civil nuclear power, 1945–70.<br>Stephen Twigge<br>11. ‘Keeping Her Powder Dry’: Turkey’s commercial ties with Britain in the 1940s.<br>Aysegul Sever<br>12. The Foreign Office, the Board of Trade and Anglo-Italian Relations in the Aftermath of the Second World War.<br>Effie G. H. Pedaliu<br>13. Britain and Antarctica: keeping the economic dimension in its place.<br>Peter J. Beck<br>14. Anglo-Spanish Commercial Relations, 1946–50.<br>Victor Gavin<br>15. When Strategic Foreign Policy Considerations Did Not Trump Economics: British cold war policies on East-West trade.<br>Alan Dobson<br>16. The Business of Decolonization: the Foreign Office, British business, and the end of empire in Kuwait and Qatar.<br>Simon Smith<br>17. The Foreign Office and Preparing for the first United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.<br>Edward Johnson<br>18. Commerce as a British Cold War ‘Heresy’: the intra-NATO debate on trade with the Soviet Bloc, 1962–5<br>Evanthis Hatzivassiliou<br>19. The British Government, the Oil Companies and the First Oil Crisis, 1970–3<br>Francesco Petrini<br>20. British Policy towards Socialist Countries in the 1970s: trade as a cornerstone of détente.<br>Angela Romano<br>21. ‘Paying our Way in the World’: the FCO, export promotion and Iran in the 1970s.<br>Richard Smith<br>22. Thwarting Thatcher: Britain, Nigeria and the Rhodesian crisis in 1979.<br>William Bishop<br>23. The opening of China and British foreign trade policy 1978–82.<br>Ed Hampshire24. Commercial Diplomatic Policy and Practice: a practitioner’s perspective.<br>Sir Roger Carrick</p>
