Pioneers of European Integration and Peace, 1945-1963 A Brief History with Documents

Name: Pioneers of European Integration and Peace, 1945-1963 A Brief History with Documents
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ISBN: 9780312086169

ISBN-10: 0312086164

ISBN-13: 9780312086169

Edition: 2007

Authors: Sherrill Brown Wells

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After the devastation of the Second World War, Western European leaders worked together to achieve what had eluded their predecessors after World War I: a lasting peace. Between 1945 and 1963, visionary men such as France's Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman, Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, and West Germany's Konrad Adenauer laid the foundation for the creation of the European Union. In so doing, they inaugurated what has been a sixty-year period of peace and increasing cooperation among nations that had engaged each other repeatedly in warfare. Sherrill Brown Wells's collection of primary documents takes students through the evolution of European integration in the critical early years. Her cogent…

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List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 2/2/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Foreword


Preface


List of Maps and Illustrations





Introduction: The Pioneers of European Integration


War's Aftermath: Plans for Peace, Cold War, and Reconstruction


The Marshall Plan


Revitalizing the French Economy


Integration Schemes Proliferate


French-German Rapprochement


The European Coal and Steel Community: A Supranational Community


The Failure of the Idea of a European Defense Community


The Impact of the ECSC


Increased Commitments to European Integration


The Road to Closer Union


Negotiating the Treaties of Rome


The European Economic Community


De Gaulle and the EEC


The British Application to Join the EEC


"Ever Closer Union": The EEC to EU, 1963-2006





The Documents



War's Aftermath: Plans for Peace, Cold War, and Reconstruction



The State of Federalism in June 1945, June 17, 1945




"If France Does Not Recoverï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Â What Hope Is There for Europe?" July 1945