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Author Rollings, Neil

Title British business in the formative years of European integration : 1945-1973 / Neil Rollings
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 278 pages) : illustrations
Series Cambridge studies in the emergence of global enterprise
Cambridge studies in the emergence of global enterprise
Contents Introduction -- pt. I. Economic realities. Trade and protection -- Overseas investment, corporate strategy and European integration -- pt. II. The development of perceptions of European integration. From 1945 to June 1955 : the Marshall Plan and the European coal and steel community -- The establishment of the Common Market and the free trade area proposals, 1955-1958 -- Creating EFTA, applying to the EC and de Gaulle's veto, 1958-1963 -- After de Gaulle's first veto, the second application and the second veto, 1963-1968 -- The end game : from the Hague Summit to British accession 1969-1973 -- pt. III. European integration as more than tariffs. Competition policy -- Indirect taxation -- Company law and the European Company -- Conclusion
Summary This book questions conventional accounts of the history of European integration and British business. Integration accounts normally focus on the nation-state, while Neil Rollings focuses on business and its role in the development of European integration, which business historians have previously overlooked. Business provided a key link between economic integration, political integration, and the process of Europeanization. British businessmen perceived early on that European integration meant much more than the removal of tariffs and access to new markets. Indeed, British entry into the European community would alter the whole landscape of the European working environment. Consideration of European integration is revealed as a complex, relative, and dynamic issue, covering many issues such as competition policy, taxation, and company law. Based on extensive archival research, this book uses the case of business to emphasize the need to blend national histories with the history of European integration
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
International economic integration
International economic relations
Unternehmen
EuropƤische Integration
SUBJECT Europe -- Economic integration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045678
Great Britain -- Economic integration -- History
European Economic Community countries -- Foreign economic relations
Subject Europe
European Economic Community countries
Great Britain
GroƟbritannien
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007029413
ISBN 9780511511929
0511511922
9780511371035
0511371039