| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, [8] pages pf plates, 392 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Carleton library series ; 204 |
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Carleton library series ; 204.
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| Contents |
The unprepared beginnings -- The EAC and trade problems -- The air training plan negotiations -- Financing Britain -- Scare US dollars and the Hyde Park declaration -- US economic arrangements and dollars galore -- Mutual aid to allies -- Financing Britain further and Keynes's visit -- Working up to Bretton Woods -- International institutions -- The 1946 Britain loan settlement |
| Summary |
"Canada's Department of Finance during World War II was surprisingly small - a tightly knit coterie of only a few hundred civil servants who managed the country's finances through the dark years of the war and the difficult period of reconstruction that followed. At the centre of this group was an inner circle - a handful of men - whom the deputy minister, Clifford Clark, relied on to shape public policy. This inner circle included Clark, W.A. Mackintosh, A.F.W. Plumptre, a young Mitchell Sharpe, and a young graduate of Cambridge and student of John Maynard Keynes, Robert Bryce, who came to the department in the late 1930s and quickly became a confidant of the deputy minister. During this period little public policy passed through Ottawa that did not bear the stamp of these men." "Reconstructed from archival sources and memory, Canada and the Cost of World War II is Bryce's definitive work on the department during these crucial years as well as an intimate portrait of the civil servants whose war for their country was waged with ledger sheets."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-383) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Canada. Department of Finance -- History
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| SUBJECT |
Canada. Department of Finance fast |
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Finance, Public -- Canada
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Finance -- Canada
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Finance, Public -- Canada -- History -- 19th century
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Public Finance.
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Expenditures, Public
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Finance
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Finance, Public
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Weltkrieg 1939-1945
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Finanzierung
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| SUBJECT |
Canada -- Appropriations and expenditures
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| Subject |
Canada
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Kanada
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bellamy, Matthew J., 1967-
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| ISBN |
9780773573055 |
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0773573054 |
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