Drawing on official, archival, and published sources, this book explores how the formative history of the European nation-state was embedded within economic globalization and associated with conceptions of the world overseas.
With a particular focus on France, Germany, Italy, and Britain, this research investigates how overseas relationships shaped state governance. The argument departs from conventional histories by linking together the analysis of economic relationships and political cultures, examining the ways in which state agency formed in different areas such as national economy building, the organization of overseas raw material and food supplies, labour, migration, and national identity. Spanning over a century, the book discusses the changing role of overseas colonies in European national development. Once a means to complete economic liberalization, colonies were then envisaged as tools of crisis management before, in the mid-twentieth century, complementarities in imperial-colonial economies shifted away from empire.
This volume covers neglected aspects of the transnational history of European nation-states and is an ideal resource for students and researchers interested in the ties between Europe, Africa, and Asia, as well as connections between political, economic, and social relations and their conceptualizations.
Author(s): Gerold Krozewski
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 438
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Figures
Tables
Acknowledgments
Part 1: Premises, concepts, arguments
1. The overseas world and the European nation-state: An introduction
The enquiry
Relating threads of research
Historical trajectories in the globe
Expert-practitioners, state governance, and the world
The book's organization
Notes
Bibliography
Part 2: From interconnected regions to state formation in the globe
2. The world as Europe's crisis and opportunity: Economic relations, 1860s-1900s
Overseas supplies, regional economies, and crises of globalization
Experts, universal development, and national progress
Entrepreneurship, regional economies, and the globe
Agency and the private-public nexus
Notes
Bibliography
3. Governance for the nation's progress: The tropics and modern European statehood, 1890s-1910s
States as organizers in a global setting
Overseas relations, states, and national economies
Invigorating the nation abroad
Colonial control in the crisis of economic liberalism
From overseas co-opting states to imperial nation-states: A synthesis
Notes
Bibliography
Archival sources
Published sources
Part 3: Imperial statehood, modernity, and its discontents
4. National crises and rational development: Overseas raw materials and currency relations, 1919-1939
Expert-practitioners on the nation's predicament
Raw materials and currencies
Currency reserves and fats and oils
Overseas raw materials and rational statehood
National development and its imperial tangents
Studying state agency in interwar Europe
Notes
Bibliography
Archival sources
Published sources
5. Imperial statehood as national necessity: The colonial project in the 1930s
Expert-practitioners on the purpose of colonies
Colonies, the people's welfare, and nutrition
Colonies and the nation's reproduction
Colonies in national economic policy
The historical moment of imperial nation-states: A synthesis
Notes
Bibliography
Archival sources
Published sources
6. Continuities in the Second World War: Overseas support for the nation's war
War economies, imperial normality, and contingency
Organizing supplies and arranging payments
Colonial development for the European war
Planning for the post-war order
Pre-war to post-war statehood: A synthesis
Notes
Bibliography
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
Western Europe and economic liberalization
Shifts in transnational and transregional economic relations
Experts, colonial currency zones, and economic redeployment
State governance for a liberalizing world
The transformation of national economies in the globe
Notes
Bibliography
Archival sources
Published sources
8. Empires to globalizing nation-states: (Post-)Colonies and national development in Europe, 1950s-1970s
National economies, state agency, and the colonial nexus in the 1950s
Tackling contradictions in imperial economic relations
Re-delineating national welfare
Reconfiguring empire overseas in the 1960s
Control relations, dependent territory, and European states after empire
Analysing the global reproduction of states: A synthesis
Notes
Bibliography
Archival sources
Published sources
Part 5: Conclusion, retrospection, outlook
9. Globalization and the European nation-state: Retrospection and legacy
Returning to the threads of research
Parallels with empire: From the Cold War to the 1990s
Tropical resource frontiers and transnational nation-states: Old and new
The nation-state and the globe: Past and present
Notes
Bibliography
Index
