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British Business in the Formative Years of European Integration, 1945–1973
Neil Rollings
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Description for British Business in the Formative Years of European Integration, 1945–1973
hardcover. Neil Rollings offers a new account of European integration and British business. Series: Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise. Num Pages: 294 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; JPSN2; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 348 x 238 x 23. Weight in Grams: 550.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise
Number of Pages
294
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521888110
SKU
V9780521888110
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About Neil Rollings
Neil Rollings (b. 1961) is currently Head of Department and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow. Rollings previously held posts at the University of Leeds and the University of Bristol. In 2000–2001 he was Associate Professor in the Institute of Economic Research at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. Rollings is currently joint chair ... Read more
Reviews for British Business in the Formative Years of European Integration, 1945–1973
'British Business in the Formative Years of European Integration, 1945–1972 is an extremely useful book. It starts from the point of view of enterprise, not only of business organisations, such as chambers of commerce; it fulfils its promise to provide 'a key link between economic integration, political integration and the process of Europeanisation'; and not least it argues that we ... Read more