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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Milward, Alan S. European rescue of the nation-state. London ; New York : Routledge, 2000 (DLC) 99044300 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alan S Milward |
ISBN: | 0203982150 9780203982150 0203982150 9780415216289 0415216281 9780415216296 041521629X 9781134606313 1134606311 9786610216147 6610216142 |
OCLC Number: | 70767937 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 466 pages) |
Contents: | 1. History and theory -- 2. The post-war nation-state -- 3. Coal and the Belgian nation -- Protection, welfare and employment -- Belgium enters the Coal and Steel Community -- The Belgian coal industry in the Community -- Preserving the welfare consenus -- 4. Foreign trade, economic and social advance, and the origins of the European Economic Community -- Theory, ideology and practice in foreign trade -- Western Europe's trade with Germany as the pivot of economic advance -- The Six as a trade network -- The Netherlands and the origins of the common market -- The Treaties of Rome -- 5. The Europeanization of agricultural protection -- The economics and politics of post-war Western European agriculture -- Agricultural pressure groups and the state in post-war Europe -- Protection, prices and consumption in European agriculture in the 1950s -- Finding a vent for surplus -- The search for a political solution -- Agriculture in a hierarchy of power -- 6. The lives and teachings of the European saints -- 7. Britain and western Europe -- British manufacturing and international trade -- Strategies for post-war commercial competition with Germany -- Competition in cars -- Sterling, the dollar and the world order -- Sterling and Western Europe -- The United Kingdom and the Common Market. |
Responsibility: | Alan S. Milward with the assistance of George Brennan and Federico Romero. |
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"This volume is very strongly recommended for upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty."-"Choice, 06/00 "Reviews of the first edition: .""The enormity of what he has accomplished cannot be contested. Milward has produced a marvelously intelligent reappraisal that examines and analyzes Europe's affirmation of the nation-state as the cardinal organizing unit of mid-century society...mandatory reading for all interested scholars...no other book has given us as definitive an account or as compelling an interpretation as does Milward's prodigious feat of historical scholarship."-"American Historical Review "Well written, thought provoking."-"New Statesman and Society ..."as a challenging study of the origins of supranational Europe in the economic sphere this will not easily be bettered."-"German Politics Read more...


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- European Economic Community.
- European Economic Community -- Great Britain.
- Communauté économique européenne.
- Communauté économique européenne -- Grande-Bretagne.
- Europäische Gemeinschaft
- Europäische Gemeinschaft für Kohle und Stahl
- European Economic Community -- Economic policy.
- Great Britain -- Economic policy -- 1945-1964.
- Pays de l'Union européenne -- Politique économique.
- Grande-Bretagne -- Politique économique -- 1945-1964.
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Economics.
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General.
- Economic policy.
- Great Britain.
- Europese integratie.
- Politieke geschiedenis.
- Agrarpolitik
- Europäische Integration
- Nationalstaat
- Belgien
- Großbritannien