Tariff Policy - Bibliography

Bauer, Raymond A., Ithiel De Sola Pool, and Lewis Anthony Dexter. American Business and Public Policy: The Politics of Foreign Trade. 2d ed. Chicago, 1972. Classic political science study testing pluralist theory, with a focus on the 1950s.

Becker, William A., and Samuel F. Wells, Jr., eds. Economics and World Power: An Assessment of American Diplomacy Since 1789. New York, 1984. Excellent survey of all economic diplomacy, including tariffs.

Butler, Michael A. Cautious Visionary: Cordell Hull and Trade Reform, 1933–1937. Kent, Ohio, 1998.

Capie, Forrest. Tariffs and Growth: Some Insights from the World Economy, 1850–1940. New York, 1994. An economist weighs in on the side of freer trade.

Culbertson, William S. Reciprocity: A NationalPolicy for Foreign Trade. New York, 1937. A government official champions the RTAA.

Dobson, John M. Two Centuries of Tariffs. Washington, D.C., 1976.

Eckes, Alfred E., Jr. Opening America's Market: U.S. Foreign Trade Policy Since 1776. Chapel Hill, N.C., 1995. Emerging classic that criticizes State Department liberal trade policy as a digression from traditional protectionism.

Eichengreen, Barry. "Did International Economic Forces Cause the Great Depression?" Contemporary Policy Issues 6 (April 1988): 90–113.

Gardner, Richard N. Sterling-Dollar Diplomacy:The Origins and Prospects of Our International Economic Order. 2d ed. New York, 1969.

Hody, Cynthia A. The Politics of Trade: AmericanPolitical Development and Foreign Economic Policy. Hanover, N.H., 1996. Examining tariff policy from the early 1900s onward, this political scientist finds that policymakers usually lagged behind dynamic economic change.

Hull, Cordell. The Memoirs of Cordell Hull. New York, 1948.

Jones, Joseph M., Jr. Tariff Retaliation. Philadelphia, 1934. A proponent of liberal trade who takes aim at protectionism.

Kaplan, Edward S. American Trade Policy, 1923–1995. Westport, Conn., 1996.

Kaplan, Edward S., and Thomas W. Ryley. Prelude to Trade Wars: American Tariff Policy, 1890–1922. Westport, Conn., 1994.

Kaufman, Burton I. Efficiency and Expansion: Foreign Trade Organization in the Wilson Administration, 1913–1922. Westport, Conn., 1974.

——. Trade and Aid: Eisenhower's Foreign Economic Policy, 1953–1961. Baltimore, 1982.

Kottman, Richard N. Reciprocity and the North Atlantic Triangle, 1932–1938. Ithaca, N.Y., 1968.

Lake, David A. Power, Protection, and Free Trade:International Sources of U.S. Commercial Strategy, 1887–1939. Ithaca, N.Y., 1988. Argues that tariff policy arose from international sources rather than conflict among domestic groups.

Merrill, Milton R. Reed Smoot: Apostle in Politics. Logan, Utah, 1990.

Pastor, Robert A. Congress and the Politics of U.S. Foreign Economic Policy, 1929–1976. Berkeley, Calif., 1980. A useful analysis of tariff policymaking and its impact.

Rhodes, Carolyn. Reciprocity, U.S. Trade Policy, and the GATT Regime. Ithaca, N.Y., 1993.

Rowland, Benjamin M. Commercial Conflict and Foreign Policy: A Study in Anglo-American Relations, 1932–1938. New York, 1987.

Schattschneider, Elmer E. Politics, Pressures, and the Tariff. New York, 1935. Classic study of Smoot-Hawley logrolling.

Setser, Vernon G. The Commercial Reciprocity Policy of the United States, 1774–1829. Philadelphia, 1937.

Stanwood, Edward. American Tariff Controversies in the Nineteenth Century. New York, 1903.

Steward, Dick. Trade and Hemisphere: The GoodNeighbor Policy and Reciprocal Trade. Columbia, Mo., 1975.

Strackbein, O. R. American Enterprise and Foreign Trade. Washington, D.C., 1965. Protectionist tract by a lobbyist.

Tarbell, Ida M. The Tariff in Our Times. New York, 1911. A Progressive-era crusader against protectionism.

Tasca, Henry J. The Reciprocal Trade Policy of the United States. Philadelphia, 1938.

Tate, Merze. Hawaii: Reciprocity or Annexation. New Haven, Conn., 1965.

Taussig, Frank W., ed. Tariff History of the United States. 8th ed. New York, 1931.

Terrill, Tom E. The Tariff, Politics, and American Foreign Policy, 1874–1901. Westport, Conn., 1973.

Wolman, Paul. Most Favored Nation: The Republican Revisionists and U.S. Tariff Policy, 1897–1912. Chapel Hill, N.C., 1992.

Younger, Edward A. John A. Kasson: Politics and Diplomacy from Lincoln to McKinley. Iowa City, Iowa, 1955.

Zeiler, Thomas W. American Trade and Power in the 1960s. New York, 1992. Explores side agreements common in the Cold War to preserve liberal trade.

——. Free Trade, Free World: The Advent ofGATT. Chapel Hill, N.C., 1999.