Grand Designs and Visions of Unity: The Atlantic Powers and the Reorganization of Western Europe, 1955-1963

by Jeffrey Glenn Giauque and Jeffrey Glen Giauque

Book Overview

In the late 1950s, against the unfolding backdrop of the Cold War, American and European leaders began working to reshape Western Europe. They sought to adapt the region to a changing world in which European empires were rapidly disintegrating, Soviet influence was spreading, and the United States could no longer shoulder the entire political and economic burden of the West yet hesitated to share it with Europe. Focusing on the four largest Atlantic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807853445
• ISBN13: 9780807853443
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"