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The Washington negotiations are a central focus of the ‘capitulation thesis’ view of postwar British development. The British state, according to this view, embraced the tenets of multilateralism outlined in the agreement and established a strategy of accumulation based on accepting a subordinate position in an American-imposed liberal internationalist alliance.
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Ministry of Food, How Britain was Fed in Wartime (HMSO, 1946).
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Burnham, P. (1990). The Washington Loan Agreement. In: The Political Economy of Postwar Reconstruction. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20553-0_3
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