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

Michael J. Hogan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 27, 1989 | ISBN-10: 0521378400 | ISBN-13: 978-0521378406

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.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Hogan's "ambitious, closely reasoned and strongly supported argument," asserted PW , is that the Marshall Plan was an outgrowth of pre-WW II American business trends and that it attempted to project the American corporative-political economy across the Atlantic.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

Hogan judges the Marshall Plan to be the most successful peacetime foreign policy carried out by the United States in this century. While this is not, perhaps, an especially courageous conclusion, considering our somewhat uneven record, the author's opinion and arguments have merit and so does his assessment of the period encompassing this $12 billion package of postwar aid to Europe. Whereas the United States had the expectation of creating a Europe in its own image, French and British interests had other, more independent intentions. The Marshall Plan ultimately did succeed in creating a stronger, multinational Europe, but it certainly did not do so in a way America had planned. A worthwhile purchase for most libraries, Hogan's work will no doubt become one of the seminal histories of postwar cooperation and development. Jeff Northrup, Birmingham P.L., Ala.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 500 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (January 27, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521378400
• ISBN-13: 978-0521378406
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #207,297 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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