| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.4

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Book Review

Zwischen Krise und Krieg: Frankreich in der Außenwirtschaftspolitik der USA zwischen Weltwirtschaftskrise und Zweitem Weltkrieg und das Problem der Sicherheit vor Deutschland (Between crisis and war: France and American foreign economic policy between the Great Depression and World War II and the problem of security from Germany). By Karl J. Mayer. (Stuttgart: Steiner, 1999. 274 pp. Paper, DM 84, ISBN 3-515-07373-6.) In German.

Karl J. Mayer's excellent study of Franco-American relations during the 1930s focuses on France in the foreign economic policies of the United States. It provides a detailed account of financial and commercial connections between the two nations during the Great Depression and especially of diplomatic negotiations concerning these economic links. But this is not just a history of international finance and trade, although Mayer concentrates on currency exchange and tariff rates during the decade before World War II. Recognizing the problem of Germany's threat to French security as a central issue in French politics and in the bilateral relationship between the United States and France, he keeps this strategic dimension in the forefront of his analysis of economic issues. The result is a book that offers great insight into the full range of factors shaping international relations from the beginning of the world depression to the outbreak of the European war. . . .

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