1st Edition
Overseas Economic Relations and Statehood in Europe, 1860s–1970s Shaping the World, Making the Nation
PART 1: Premises, concepts, arguments
1 The overseas world and the European nation-state: An introduction
PART 2: From interconnected regions to state formation in the globe
2 The world as Europe’s crisis and opportunity: Economic relations, 1860s–1900s
3 Governance for the nation’s progress: The tropics and modern European statehood, 1890s–1910s
PART 3: Imperial statehood, modernity, and its discontents
4 National crises and rational development: Overseas raw materials and currency relations, 1919–1939
5 Imperial statehood as national necessity: The colonial project in the 1930s
6 Continuities in the Second World War: Overseas support for the nation’s war
PART 4: The liberal reordering of statehood and the world’s developmental divide
7 European recovery and economic liberalization: From overseas complementarities to the “developing world,” 1945–1960s
8 Empires to globalizing nation-states: (Post-)colonies and national development in Europe, 1950s–1970s
PART 5: Conclusion, retrospection, outlook
9 Globalization and the European nation-state: Retrospection and legacy
Biography
Gerold Krozewski is a professor of history at Osaka University, and a research associate at the University of the Free State. His research covers topics of Europe’s imperial and colonial economic and political relations.
