Mira Wilkins is Professor of Economics at Florida International University.

• List of Tables and Figures Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. The First World War, 1914-1918 2. America's New Role, 1919-1923 3. Survival, Expansion, and New Arrivals, 1919-1923 4. Prosperity, 1924-1929 5. The Foreign Multinationals, 1924-1929 6. A Time of Anguish, October 1929-March 1933 7. A World at Risk, 1933-1939 8. War Abroad, 1939-1941 9. World War II, 1941-1945 10. American Hegemony Appendixes 1. Definitions 2. Notes on the Statistics 3. Detailed Sources for Tables 2.1, 8.3, and 10.1 4. Principal U.S. Federal Legislation Affecting Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914-1945 Notes Bibliography Index

This book is breathtaking in scope and highly original. Mira Wilkins provides the first comprehensive account of foreign investment into the United States in the interwar years. In a literature which remains extremely focused on the domestic economy, Wilkins shows the importance of the business and capital relations between the United States and the rest of the world and confronts important assumptions about the nature of American 'exceptionalism.' This work is a major event in historical scholarship, of significance far beyond the business history community, where it will become an immediate classic. It will be widely welcomed.