The United States and European Reconstruction 1945-1960 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781579582289)

In this book John Killick introduces the reader to a key aspect of economic history: the impact of American economic intervention in Europe after World War II.

The effects of this impact are still open to debate. The Marshall Plan has traditionally been seen as a decisive turning-point in European economic and political history, but its effect is now being called into question.

Would Europe have revived spontaneously after 1945? Did American dollars save the world in 1947? Was American influence the underlying reason for the general drift away from socialism and the move towards European federalism in the late 1940s and early 1950s? If the Marshall Plan--in conjunction with NATO--created a coherent and prosperous western bloc, was this critical for the outcome of the Cold War? These are important questions, to which this careful analysis provides some new and accessible answers.

Author: John Killick
ISBN-10: 1579582281
ISBN-13: 9781579582289
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2000
Pages: 220
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2000 pg. 26