1. 1. Patrick J. Hearden,Architects of Globalism: Building a New World Order during World War II(Fayetteville, AR, 2002).
2. 2. Barry Eichengreen,Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System, 2d ed. (Princeton, NJ, 1998); Harold James,The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression(Cambridge, MA, 2001).
3. 3. For overviews along these lines, see Diane B. Kunz,Butter and Guns: America's Cold War Economic Diplomacy(New York, 1997), 192-222; also William Bundy,A Tangled Web: The Making of Foreign Policy in the Nixon Presidency(New York, 1998), 261-68. See also Paul Volcker's version of these events in his coauthored book with Toyoo Gyohten,Changing Fortunes: The World's Money and the Threat to American Leadership(New York, 1992), 59-90, 101-28.
4. 4. Joanne Gowa,Closing the Gold Window: Domestic Politics and the End of Bretton Woods(Ithaca, NY, 1983), 173.
5. 5. Francis Gavin's excellent analysis does take account of this systemic perspective; he notes that the Bretton Woods system began to wobble from the moment European currencies attained full convertibility in 1958. However, his study remains largely focused upon American decision making. Francis Gavin,Gold, Dollars, & Power: The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958-1971(Chapel Hill, NC, 2004). Another historian working to "globalize" our understanding of monetary issues is Thomas W. Zeiler; see his working paper "U.S. Foreign Economic Policy and Relations with Japan, 1969-1976," available at http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/japan/zeilertp.htm.