The Marshall Plan: America, Britain and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947-1952 (Studies in Economic History and Policy: USA in the Twentieth Century)

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. Frontmatter (page N/A) Editors' preface (page ix) Preface (page xi) Introduction (page 1) 1 Searching for a "creative peace": European integraton and the origins of the Marshall Plan (page 26) 2 Paths to plenty: European recovery planning and the American policy compromise (page 54) 3 European union or middle kingdom: Anglo-American formulations, the Greman problem, and the organizational dimension of the ERP (page 88) 4 Strategies of transnationalism: the ECA and the politics of peace and productivity (page 135) 5 Changing course: European integration and the traders triumphant (page 189) 6 Two worlds or three: the sterling crisis, the dollar gap, and the integration of Western Europe (page 238) 7 Between union and unity: European integration and the sterling--dollar dualism (page 293) 8 Holding the line: the ECA's efforts to reconcile recovery and rearmament (page 336) 9 Guns and butter: politics and diplomacy at the end of the Marshall Plan (page 380) Conclusion America made the European way (page 427) Bibliography (page 446) Index (page 465) Analyzes the political and economic goals of the Marshall Plan discusses Britain's role in the plan, and assesses the outcome of U.S. aid and advice Michael J. Hogan. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 446-463.