The European Rescue of the Nation State Book

	List of tables
	Preface to the first edition
	Preface to the second edition
	List of abbreviations
	Key to archival references
1	History and theory	1
2	The post-war nation-state	21
3	Coal and the Belgian nation	46
	Protection, welfare and employment	50
	Belgium enters the Coal and Steel Community	64
	The Belgian coal industry in the Community	83
	Preserving the welfare consenus	113
4	Foreign trade, economic and social advance, and the origins of the European Economic Community	119
	Theory, ideology and practice in foreign trade	121
	Western Europe's trade with Germany as the pivot of economic advance	134
	The Six as a trade network	167
	The Netherlands and the origins of the common market	173
	The Treaties of Rome	196
5	The Europeanization of agricultural protection	224
	The economics and politics of post-war Western European agriculture	225
	Agricultural pressure groups and the state in post-war Europe	237
	Protection, prices and consumption in European agriculture in the 1950s	253
	Finding a vent for surplus	265
	The search for a political solution	284
	Agriculture in a hierarchy of power	306
6	The lives and teachings of the European saints	318
7	Britain and western Europe	345
	British manufacturing and international trade	352
	Strategies for post-war commercial competition with Germany	357
	Competition in cars	367
	Sterling, the dollar and the world order	383
	Sterling and Western Europe	402
	The United Kingdom and the Common Market	420
	Envoi	425
	Bibliography	437
	Index	453