Fernando Guirao is Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration History at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona (with an ad personam chair since 2013), Deputy Director of the Barcelona Center for European Studies, and member of the European Union Liaison Committee of Historians and of the editorial board of the Journal of European Integration History. Guirao has been visiting scholar at the universities of Nantes (2016), Seoul National (2009), Oxford (1997), LSE (1995), and Yale (1992-94).

Through its well-focused analytical framework and highly detailed description, this volume is an important read for anyone interested in Spain's modern political and economic history, developmental details of the European Union, and, more generally, international political economy regarding trade relations in Europe.

• Introduction Part I: Sectoral integration in Western Europe, 1950-55 1: Schumania and Spain's heavy-industry supply 2: Franco Spain at the origins of the European Agricultural Community Part II: The EEC: Challenge and response, 1955-70 3: Opposing fascism or accommodating its last remnant? 4: The decision to grant the preference (1964-67) 5: Negotiating the preference (1967-70) 6: Marketing the 1970 Agreement Part III: Franco Spain in the European system of trade preference, 1970-75 7: The Spanish attempt to expand unilateral preferences 8: The European attempt to topple Spain's industrial protection The Finale

Fernando Guirao is Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration History at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona (with an ad personam chair since 2013), Deputy Director of the Barcelona Center for European Studies, and member of the European Union Liaison Committee of Historians and of the editorial board of the Journal of European Integration History. Guirao has been visiting scholar at the universities of Nantes (2016), Seoul National (2009), Oxford (1997), LSE (1995), and Yale (1992-94).

Through its well-focused analytical framework and highly detailed description, this volume is an important read for anyone interested in Spain's modern political and economic history, developmental details of the European Union, and, more generally, international political economy regarding trade relations in Europe.

• Introduction Part I: Sectoral integration in Western Europe, 1950-55 1: Schumania and Spain's heavy-industry supply 2: Franco Spain at the origins of the European Agricultural Community Part II: The EEC: Challenge and response, 1955-70 3: Opposing fascism or accommodating its last remnant? 4: The decision to grant the preference (1964-67) 5: Negotiating the preference (1967-70) 6: Marketing the 1970 Agreement Part III: Franco Spain in the European system of trade preference, 1970-75 7: The Spanish attempt to expand unilateral preferences 8: The European attempt to topple Spain's industrial protection The Finale

Fernando Guirao is Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration History at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona (with an ad personam chair since 2013), Deputy Director of the Barcelona Center for European Studies, and member of the European Union Liaison Committee of Historians and of the editorial board of the Journal of European Integration History. Guirao has been visiting scholar at the universities of Nantes (2016), Seoul National (2009), Oxford (1997), LSE (1995), and Yale (1992-94).

Through its well-focused analytical framework and highly detailed description, this volume is an important read for anyone interested in Spain's modern political and economic history, developmental details of the European Union, and, more generally, international political economy regarding trade relations in Europe.

• Introduction Part I: Sectoral integration in Western Europe, 1950-55 1: Schumania and Spain's heavy-industry supply 2: Franco Spain at the origins of the European Agricultural Community Part II: The EEC: Challenge and response, 1955-70 3: Opposing fascism or accommodating its last remnant? 4: The decision to grant the preference (1964-67) 5: Negotiating the preference (1967-70) 6: Marketing the 1970 Agreement Part III: Franco Spain in the European system of trade preference, 1970-75 7: The Spanish attempt to expand unilateral preferences 8: The European attempt to topple Spain's industrial protection The Finale