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

Hogan shows how The Marshall Plan was more than an effort to put American aid behind the economic reconstruction of Europe.

Michael J. Hogan (Author)

9780521378406, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 27 January 1989

500 pages
22.8 x 15.8 x 3.3 cm, 0.76 kg

"Michael Hogan's learned and authoritative study of the European Recovery Program is the fullest yet written, not only in the sense of page numbers but also in the sense of illuminating important aspects of the subject that have been previously neglected." Business History Review

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 [HBLW3], History of the Americas [HBJK]