Europe's Third World: The European Periphery in the Interwar Years

by Aldcroft,Derek H.

• ISBN13: 9780754605997
• ISBN10: 075460599X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781317138877, 9781409479413
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-02-28
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Economic historians have perennially addressed the intriguing question of comparative development, asking why some countries develop much faster and further than others. Focusing primarily on Europe between 1914 and 1939, this volume explores the development of thirteen countries that could be considered economically backwards during this period: Albania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Turkey and Yugoslavia. This volume explores economic modernization, seeking to explain how the countries adapted to the major shocks of the period, namely war and depression.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	viii
General Editor's Preface	x
Acknowledgements	xi
Introductory Note	1	(2)
1 Characteristics of the European Periphery	3	(14)
2 Peripheral Europe Before 1914	17	(22)
3 Peripheral Europe in the Interwar Setting	39	(29)
4 The Balkan States	68	(26)
5 The Baltic States	94	(12)
6 Poland and Hungary	106	(21)
7 Spain and Portugal	127	(17)
8 Greece, Turkey and Albania	144	(27)
9 Development Stalled?	171	(13)
References	184	(18)
Index	202