1st Edition

Genesis of the Common Market

By W.O. Henderson Copyright 2006
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1962. A study of the rise of great industries in Western Europe. The factors which promoted industrial growth in Britain also influenced economic developments on the other side of the English Channel and there were signs of progress in the manufactures of France, Germany and the Low Countries. The Common Market of the twentieth century owed much to the pioneer work of... Read more

Introduction

1. The rise of the great industries of Western Europe

i. Iron and Steel

ii. Engineering

iii. Coal

iv. Textiles

v. Chemicals

2. An eighteenth century approach. The Anglo-French Commercial Treaty of 1786

3. International co-operation in the nineteenth century

i. Slave trade

ii. Opium trade

iii. Arms and liquor

iv. Fisheries

v. Sugar

vi. Agriculture

vii. Currencies and Gold Standard

viii. Health

ix. Communications

x. International Cartels

5. Customs unions in the nineteenth century

i. National Common Markets

ii. The German Customs Unions

6. International co-operation after two World Wars

i. 1919-1939

ii. 1945-50

7. The Genesis of the Common Market

i. The Coal and Steel Community

ii. The Economic Community

Biography

W.O. Henderson