The European Rescue of the Nation StateThis newly revised and updated second edition is the classic economic and political account of the origins of the European Community. On one level it is an original analysis of the forces which brought the EC together, on another it is an explanation based on historical analysis of the future relationship between nation-state and the European Union. Combining political with economic analysis, and based on extensive primary research in several countries, this book offers a challenging interpretation of the history of the western European state and European integration. |
Contents
1 History and theory | 1 |
2 The postwar nationstate | 18 |
3 Coal and the Belgian nation | 40 |
4 Foreign trade economic and social advance and the origins of the European Economic Community | 104 |
5 The Europeanization of agricultural protection | 197 |
6 The lives and teachings of the European saints | 281 |
7 Britain and western Europe | 304 |
Envoi | 374 |
| 384 | |
| 399 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Adenauer agreement agricultural policy American argued average balance of payments became Belgian government Belgium Benelux Beyen Borinage Britain British exports cent coking-coal commercial policy Committee common agricultural policy common market competition consumption convertibility costs currency customs union demand Denmark dollar domestic Dutch economic ECSC employment Europe’s European Community European integration farmers favour Federal Republic Federal Republic’s foreign trade France France’s French German exports Germany’s High Authority higher idea imports increase interest investment Italian Italy labour machinery manufacturing Marshall Plan million tonnes mines Ministry Monnet Monnet Plan nation-state negotiations Netherlands OEEC official organization output péréquation period Pflimlin Plan political post-war pre-war problem productivity proposals protection quotas rate of growth reduced Schuman social Spaak steel sterling area strategy subsidies sugar supranational surpluses Sweden tariffs Treaties of Rome trend United Kingdom welfare Western Europe Western European countries wheat Zeeland