Format:
1 Online-Ressource (232 Seiten)
ISBN:
9782807600775
,
9782807600799
,
9782807600782
Series Statement:
Euroclio 97
Content:
The book assesses the role of three pro-European pressure groups (the European Union of Federalists, the Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe and the European League for Economic Cooperation) and their impact in fostering new relations between Europe and the colonies between 1947 and 1957. It argues that the association of the overseas territories into the European Economic Community in 1957, the founding stone of today’s European policy for aid and development, was to a large extent the result of the intense intellectual activity that took place in these transnational groups upstream of the signature of the Treaty of Rome. A transnational approach of these groups uncovers the broader objectives of the European policy: that the association would in the long run revive the declining links between Europe and its overseas territories. On the one hand, part of the influential British and continental pro-European elites wanted to create a European Commonwealth which would establish new preferential and intergovernmental links between countries of the Council of Europe, the British Dominions and the European colonies. On the other hand, a number of French and Belgian pro-Europeans wanted to create a Eurafrican community, a federation linking Europe and Africa economically and politically. Both the European Commonwealth and the Eurafrican community were designed in response to postwar challenges: the dollar gap, the communist threat in the Third World, the rise of new African and Asian nationalisms or the position of European powers in a new globalised world
Content:
European integration – European empires – European colonisation and decolonisation – Comparative history France, Belgium, the United Kingdom – Pro-European groups – Transnational history – Eurafrica – European Movement – 1940s–1950s – The external relations of the EU
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9782807600768
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Kottos, Laura Europe between Imperial Decline and Quest for Integration Bruxelles, Belgique : P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2016 ISBN 280760076X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9782807600768
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Frankreich
;
Belgien
;
Großbritannien
;
Kolonialismus
;
Überseeterritorium
;
Europabewegung
;
Geschichte 1947-1957
DOI:
10.3726/978-2-8076-0077-5
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