| Author (Person) | Milward, Alan S. |
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| Publisher | Routledge |
| Publication Date | 2000 |
| ISBN | 0-415-21629-X (Hbk) |
| Content Type | Textbook | Monograph |
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Book abstract: This important economic and political account of the origins of the European Community, first published in 1992, contains a revised and updated chapter on the United Kingdom. On one level, the book 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 EU. Combining political with economic analysis, and based on extensive primary research in several countries, it offers a challenging interpretation of the history of the western European state and European integration. To explain what the forces were which brought the Community into existence, the author analyses in detail three issues where national policy became Europeanised, namely employment and welfare; foreign trade and its relationship to economic growth; and the protection and developments of agriculture and the maintenance of agricultural incomes. These detailed studies are set inside general essays about the nature of integration, the character of the post-war state and the nature of security in the post-war world. The chapter covering the United Kingdom has been completely rewritten for this new edition, and the nature and conclusions of the arguments are substantially different from the earlier edition. The issues surrounding post-war national strategies - diplomatic, security and economic - are set in the wider, non-British context. The questions of whether there was a European rescue of the British nation-state, and if not, would it have been better had there been one, are considered. The author acknowledges the impossibility of presenting straightforward answers to this kind of question without raising further questions, but considers that the political debate over Britain's relationship to the EU has now lasted for so long that nobody expects the answer to be simple. Alan S. Milward is professor of comtemporary history at the European, Institute, Florence and Official Historian and Emeritus professor of economic history at the London School of Economics. |
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