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WESTERN EUROPE

Economic and Social Change Since

Following the success of Paul Johnson's Twentieth-Century Britain, this latest volume devised in conjunction with the Economic History Society offers a wide-ranging, clearly structured introduction to the economic and social development of western Europe since the Second World War. Like its predecessor, it is attractively written for a non-specialist readership by a team of experts addressing a common brief; and it is imaginatively presented, with many photographs, case-studies, diagrams, tables and other material to enrich and diversify the text.

Divided, exhausted, bankrupt, and with much of its infrastructure in ruins, western Europe faced a sea of troubles at the end of the Second World War, with little overtly to suggest a prosperous future. Yet the region has flourished, its people enjoying the fruits of prosperity, liberty and peace as never before and, no less remarkably, continues to flourish in its maturity, long after the particular dynamism of postwar renewal has passed away.

In its twenty-onespecially written chapters (prefaced by the Editor's Introduction), this book:

• explains the distinctive factors that lie behind this success in a number of contextual chapters, taking us from postwar reconstruction and early moves towards European integration, through the boom years of the 1950s and 1960s, to the threshold of monetary union;

• explores the key aspects of postwar Europe's economy and society in a number of topical chapters, each on a region-wide and strongly comparative base; and then

• examines the individual experience of major nations and areas of western Europe: Benelux, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Scandinavia and Spain.

Special features of the book include:

the long-term framework of the analysis: many books on contemporary Europe lack a firm historical perspective, but here we are able to see the postwar era whole, and, in a number of important instances, trace key factors right back to their prewar origins.

the range and enterprise of the topical agenda: the book reaches beyond the core history of economic development and the national case-studies to consider issues not dealt with in other surveys the welfare state, education, urbanization, immigration and demographic change amongst them.

wide horizons: the European Community looms large in the volume, as it must, but it is part of a wider concern with the postwar fortunes of western Europe, and the book is not limited by an over-dependence on the Community's own specific history and agenda.

The chapters are contributed by an international team of authorities, working in association with the Economic History Society, and the book as a whole will be widely welcomed, not just for its breadth and authority but also for its accessibility.

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