1st Edition

Harold Wilson and European Integration Britain's Second Application to Join the EEC

Edited By Oliver J. Daddow Copyright 2003
    316 Pages
    by Routledge

    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    Harold Wilson's direction of the second British application to join the EEC us ripe for reinterpretation. With new and exciting material now available in the Public Record Office and abroad, this is an extremely propitious moment to reconsider Wilson's motivations, and to contextualise them in light of evidence on foreign policy-making contained in the official record.

    Chapter 1 Introduction: The Historiography of Wilson's Attempt to Take Britain into the EEC, Oliver J. Daddow; Part I The Domestic Context; Chapter 2 The Labour Party, Public Opinion and 'the Second Try' in 1967, Anne Deighton; Chapter 3 The Conservatives and the Wilson Application, Philip Lynch; Chapter 4 Gone Native: The Foreign Office and Harold Wilson's Policy Towards the EEC, 1964–67, Helen Parr; Chapter 5 Technological Cooperation in Wilson's Strategy for EEC Entry, John W. Young; Chapter 6 The Confederation of British Industry and European Integration in the 1960s, Neil Rollings; Part II The External Context; Chapter 7 A Short-Term Defeat: The Community Institutions and the Second British Application to Join the EEC, N. Piers Ludlow; Chapter 8 John Bull v. Marianne, Round Two: Anglo-French Relations and Britain's Second EEC Membership Bid, Anthony Adamthwaite; Chapter 9 Dealing with de Gaulle: Anglo-American Relations, NATO and the Second Application, James Ellison; Chapter 10 From Imperial Power to Regional Powers: Commonwealth Crises and the Second Application, Philip Alexander; Chapter 11 'We Too Mean Business': Germany and the Second British Application to the EEC, 1966–67, Katharina Böhmer; Chapter 12 Ireland and Britain's Second Application to Join the EEC, Jane Toomey; Chapter 13 Conclusion: The Ironies of 'Successful Failure', Peter Catterall;

    Biography

    Oliver J. Daddow