Overseas Economic Relations and Statehood in Europe, 1860s–1970s; Shaping the World, Making the Nation; 1

Drawing on official, archival, and published sources, this book explores how the formative history of the European nation-state was embedded within economic globalization and associated with conceptions of the world overseas. With a particular focus on France, Germany, Italy, and Britain, this research investigates how overseas relationships shaped state governance. The argument departs from conventional histories by linking together the analysis of economic relationships and political cultures, examining the ways in which state agency formed in different areas such as national economy building, the organization of overseas raw material and food supplies, labour, migration, and national identity. Spanning over a century, the book discusses the changing role of overseas colonies in European national development. Once a means to complete economic liberalization, colonies were then envisaged as tools of crisis management before, in the mid-twentieth century, complementarities in imperial-colonial economies shifted away from empire. This volume covers neglected aspects of the transnational history of European nation-states and is an ideal resource for students and researchers interested in the ties between Europe, Africa, and Asia, as well as connections between political, economic, and social relations and their conceptualizations. Overseas Economic Relations and Statehood in Europe, 1860s–1970s Cover -1 Half Title 2 Series Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Dedication 6 Contents 8 Figures 11 Tables 12 Acknowledgments 13 Part 1: Premises, concepts, arguments 14 1. The overseas world and the European nation-state: An introduction 16 The enquiry 16 Relating threads of research 20 Historical trajectories in the globe 27 Expert-practitioners, state governance, and the world 35 The book's organization 40 Notes 42 Bibliography 47 Part 2: From interconnected regions to state formation in the globe 54 2. The world as Europe's crisis and opportunity: Economic relations, 1860s-1900s 56 Overseas supplies, regional economies, and crises of globalization 58 Experts, universal development, and national progress 68 Entrepreneurship, regional economies, and the globe 79 Agency and the private-public nexus 86 Notes 96 Bibliography 104 3. Governance for the nation's progress: The tropics and modern European statehood, 1890s-1910s 112 States as organizers in a global setting 114 Overseas relations, states, and national economies 121 Invigorating the nation abroad 130 Colonial control in the crisis of economic liberalism 139 From overseas co-opting states to imperial nation-states: A synthesis 144 Notes 150 Bibliography 157 Archival sources 157 Published sources 157 Part 3: Imperial statehood, modernity, and its discontents 164 4. National crises and rational development: Overseas raw materials and currency relations, 1919-1939 166 Expert-practitioners on the nation's predicament 167 Raw materials and currencies 173 Currency reserves and fats and oils 184 Overseas raw materials and rational statehood 188 National development and its imperial tangents 195 Studying state agency in interwar Europe 200 Notes 202 Bibliography 211 Archival sources 211 Published sources 211 5. Imperial statehood as national necessity: The colonial project in the 1930s 218 Expert-practitioners on the purpose of colonies 219 Colonies, the people's welfare, and nutrition 224 Colonies and the nation's reproduction 228 Colonies in national economic policy 236 The historical moment of imperial nation-states: A synthesis 243 Notes 249 Bibliography 255 Archival sources 255 Published sources 256 6. Continuities in the Second World War: Overseas support for the nation's war 260 War economies, imperial normality, and contingency 262 Organizing supplies and arranging payments 266 Colonial development for the European war 271 Planning for the post-war order 276 Pre-war to post-war statehood: A synthesis 280 Notes 282 Bibliography 287 Part 4: The liberal reordering of statehood and the world's developmental divide 292 7. European recovery and economic liberalization: From overseas complementarities to the "developing world," 1945-1960s 294 Western Europe and economic liberalization 296 Shifts in transnational and transregional economic relations 300 Experts, colonial currency zones, and economic redeployment 308 State governance for a liberalizing world 316 The transformation of national economies in the globe 322 Notes 325 Bibliography 330 Archival sources 330 Published sources 330 8. Empires to globalizing nation-states: (Post-)Colonies and national development in Europe, 1950s-1970s 335 National economies, state agency, and the colonial nexus in the 1950s 336 Tackling contradictions in imperial economic relations 342 Re-delineating national welfare 351 Reconfiguring empire overseas in the 1960s 358 Control relations, dependent territory, and European states after empire 361 Analysing the global reproduction of states: A synthesis 366 Notes 371 Bibliography 378 Archival sources 378 Published sources 378 Part 5: Conclusion, retrospection, outlook 386 9. Globalization and the European nation-state: Retrospection and legacy 388 Returning to the threads of research 388 Parallels with empire: From the Cold War to the 1990s 395 Tropical resource frontiers and transnational nation-states: Old and new 400 The nation-state and the globe: Past and present 405 Notes 411 Bibliography 415 Index 420 Globalization;,Empire;,Colonization;,National,identity;,National,development;,Liberalism;,Transnational,history;,Economic,globalization;,Labour;,State,agency;,Nation-state;,Economy,building;,Migration;,Economic,liberalization;,Imperialism;,Colonial,project;,Second,World,War; Globalization,Empire,Colonization,National identity,National development,Liberalism,Transnational history,Economic globalization,Labour,State agency,Nation-state,Economy building,Migration,Economic liberalization,Imperialism,Colonial project,Second World War "Drawing on official, archival, and published sources, this book explores how the formative history of the European nation-state was embedded within economic globalization and associated with conceptions of the world overseas. This volume covers neglected aspects of the transnational history of European nation-states and is an ideal resource for students and researchers interested in the ties between Europe, Africa, and Asia, as well as connections between political, economic, and social relations and their conceptualizations"-- Provided by publisher