Alan S. Milward

The Reconstruction of Western Europe 1945-1951 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2005. The author's intention was to write a history of the greatest economic boom in European history, of that unique, ugly and triumphant experience of the 1950s and 1960s which changed so utterly the scope of human existence and expectations as well as the consciousness of the people of western Europe. But it became clear that this extraordinary boom had one other attribute as unique as the remarkable length of time over which the growth of output, incomes and wealth lasted.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136592034
• Artikelnr.: 40000224

Autorenporträt

Alan S. Milward

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS List of figures viii List of tables ix Preface xv List of
abbreviations and conventions xx I the crisis of 1947 1 The nature of the
economic crisis 5 Domestic economic crises 7 The international economic
crisis 19 The collapse of Bretton Woods 43 II the committee of european
economic co-operation 56 The intentions of the Marshall Plan 56 Creating
the European organization 61 The Committee of European Economic
Co-operation 69 III THE EUROPEAN RECOVERY PROGRAMME 90 The economic effects
of Marshall Aid 92 Marshall Aid as political leverage 113 IV FRANCE AND THE
CONTROL OF GERMAN RESOURCES 126 The Monnet Plan and French and German
reconstruction 126 The French and German economies in the London conference
141 V the depoliticization of the oeec 168 The constitution of the OEEC 172
The intolerable burden 180 The collapse of the OEEC 195 VI foreign trade
and payments and european reconstruction 212 Multilateral and bilateral
trade in Western Europe 217 The post -war pattern of Western Europe's trade
223 VII the advent of the customs union 232 Britain and the customs union
235 France and the customs union 250 VIII payments agreements and policies
in western europe, 1946-9 256 Trade and payments agreements in western
Europe, 1946-9 258 One western world, or two? 278 IX devaluation and the
search for a new american policy 282 X the european payments union 299 The
trade liberalization programme and the American payments proposals 299
Finebel 306 Uniscan 316 The European Payments Union 320 XI the 1949
recession and the divergence of britain and little europe 335 The American
recession and the British and Western European economies 339 The economic
foundations of Little Europe 351 XII the schuman plan 362 Plans and
realities in Western Europe's steel industry 362 Comparative prospects of
the French and German steel industries 371 The political origins of the
Schuman Plan 380 The Schuman Plan and its reception 397 The European Coal
and Steel Community 407 XIII towards the common market 421 The impact of
trade liberalization 421 Post-war agriculture in Western Europe 435 The
origins of the Common Agricultural Policy 443 XIV conclusions 462 The
argument of the book 462 Reconstruction and the great boom 477
Reconstruction and integration 491 Appendix 503 Bibliography 505 Index 521