European Rescue of the Nation State

Alan S. Milward is Professor of Contemporary History at the European University Institute, Florence and official historian and Emeritus Professor at the London School of Economics.

• List of tables, Preface to the first edition, Preface to the second edition, List of abbreviations, Key to archival references, 1. History and theory, 2. The post-war nation-state, 3. Coal and the Belgian nation, 4. Foreign trade, economic and social advance, and the origins of the European Economic Community, 5. The Europeanization of agricultural protection, 6. The lives and teachings of the European saints, 7. Britain and western Europe, Envoi, Bibliography, Index