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Frontmatter – Contents – Preface – List of tables – List of abbreviations – Introduction – Part I. Great Britain and the international steel cartel 1924-1939 – 1. Britain and Europe 1924-1931: the failure to reach agreement – 2. The great depression, tariff protection and the steel industry 1931-1932 – 3. The steel industry under protection – 4. ‘Fighting tariffs’ and negotiations with the international steel cartel – 5. Britain enters the international steel cartel – 6. The agreement with the steel cartel, British foreign policy and international relations – Part II. Commercial diplomacy during the great depression: Great Britain, Japan and the division of the world cotton market – 7. Britain and the rise of Japanese competition – 8. The background to the Anglo-Japanese cartel negotiations – 9. The cartel negotiations and Anglo-Japanese relations – 10. Summary: cotton, business diplomacy and British foreign policy – Conclusion: steel, cotton, international cartels and British politics in the inter-war period – Notes – Bibliography – Index