View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University Georgia State University ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University History Dissertations Department of History 5-11-2015 Selling Peace: The iH story of the International Chamber of Commerce, 1919-1925 Shane R. Tomashot Georgia State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/history_diss Recommended Citation Tomashot, Shane R., "Selling Peace: The iH story of the International Chamber of Commerce, 1919-1925." Dissertation, Georgia State University, 2015. https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/history_diss/43 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of History at ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in History Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. SELLING PEACE: THE HISTORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 1919-1925 by SHANE TOMASHOT Under the Direction of Jared Poley, PhD ABSTRACT This dissertation is a study of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) from its inception in 1919 to the Brussels Conference in 1925. The study argues, based upon evidence from ICC conference proceedings and reports that the ICC, as well as the League of Nations, was part of the pre-war Allied (the United States, Great Britain, and France) imperial project that sought to maintain Allied global hegemony following the Great War. The businessmen of the ICC, who had numerous Allied political ties, were descendants of the social Darwinist milieu, which guided their thought processes and perceptions of the world.