Synopses & Reviews
Michael Hogan shows how The Marshall Plan was more than an effort to put American aid behind the economic reconstruction of Europe. American officials hoped to refashion Western Europe into a smaller version of the integrated single-market and mixed capitalist economy that existed in the United States. Professor Hogan's emphasis on integration is part of a major reinterpretation that sees the Marshall Plan as an extension of American domestic and foreign-policy developments stretching back through the interwar period to the Progressive Era. Michael Hogan is Professor of History at Ohio State University and editor of Diplomatic History.
Synopsis
Hogan shows how The Marshall Plan was more than an effort to put American aid behind the economic reconstruction of Europe.
Table of Contents
Introduction Toward the Marshall Plan: from New Era designs to New Deal synthesis; 1. Searching for a 'creative peace': European integration and the origins of the Marshall Plan; 2. Paths to plenty: European recovery planning and the American policy compromise; 3. European union or middle kingdom: Anglo-American formulations, the German problem, and the organizational dimension of the ERP; 4. Strategies of transnationalism: the ECA and the politics of peace and productivity; 5. Changing course: European integration and the traders triumphant; 6. Two worlds or three: the sterling crisis, the dollar gap, and the integration of Western Europe; 7. Between union and unity: European integration and the sterling-dollar dualism; 8. Holding the line: the ECA's efforts to reconcile recovery and rearmament; 9. Guns and butter: politics and diplomacy at the end of the Marshall Plan; Conclusion America made the European way; Bibliography; Index.