The Reconstruction of Western Europe 1945-1951

ISBN-13: 9780415612876 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 560 str.

Alan S. Milward;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

The contents of this book cover domestic economic crises, the collapse of Bretton Woods, creating the European organization, the Monnet Plan and French and German reconstruction, Britain and the customs union, the political origins of the Schuman Plan, and much more.

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CONTENTS

List of figuresviii

List of tablesix

Prefacexv

List of abbreviations and conventionsxx

I the crisis of 1947 1

The nature of the economic crisis5

Domestic economic crises7

The international economic crisis19

The collapse of Bretton Woods43

II the committee of european economic co-operation 56

The intentions of the Marshall Plan56

Creating the European organization61

The Committee of European Economic Co-operation69

III THE EUROPEAN RECOVERY PROGRAMME 90

The economic effects of Marshall Aid92

Marshall Aid as political leverage113

IV FRANCE AND THE CONTROL OF GERMAN RESOURCES 126

The Monnet Plan and French and German reconstruction126

The French and German economies in the London conference141

V the depoliticization of the oeec 168

The constitution of the OEEC172

The intolerable burden180

The collapse of the OEEC195

VI foreign trade and payments and european reconstruction 212

Multilateral and bilateral trade in Western Europe217

The post -war pattern of Western Europe’s trade223

VII the advent of the customs union 232

Britain and the customs union235

France and the customs union250

VIII payments agreements and policies in western europe, 1946–9 256

Trade and payments agreements in western Europe, 1946–9258

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 proposals299

Finebel306

Uniscan316

The European Payments Union320

XI the 1949 recession and the divergence of britain and little europe 335

The American recession and the British and Western European economies339

The economic foundations of Little Europe351

XII the schuman plan 362

Plans and realities in Western Europe’s steel industry362

Comparative prospects of the French and German steel industries371

The political origins of the Schuman Plan380

The Schuman Plan and its reception397

The European Coal and Steel Community407

XIII towards the common market 421

The impact of trade liberalization421

Post-war agriculture in Western Europe435

The origins of the Common Agricultural Policy443

XIV conclusions 462

The argument of the book462

Reconstruction and the great boom477

Reconstruction and integration491

Appendix503

Bibliography505

Index521

O autorze

Alan S. Milward