The Marshall Plan: America, Britain and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947–1952

by Michael J. Hogan

• ISBN13: 9780521378406
• ISBN10: 0521378400
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-01-27
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The Marshall Plan presents the fullest account yet written of America's program to assist Europe after World War II - certainly the most celebrated and successful peacetime foreign policy pursued by the United States in the twentieth century. But as Michael Hogan shows in this rich and detailed book, the Marshall Plan was more than an effort to 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.