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Britain, The Commonwealth and Europe

The Commonwealth and Britain's Applications to Join the European Communities

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  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. Alex May

    1. New Dictionary of National Biography, University of Oxford, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Britain, the Commonwealth and Europe: an Overview

    • Donald Maitland
    Pages 1-8

  3. ‘The Jolly Old Empire’: Labour, the Commonwealth and Europe, 1945–51

    • David Russell
    Pages 9-29

  4. Britain and the Commonwealth in the 1950s

    • William Nicoll
    Pages 30-38

  5. The Australian Department of Trade and the EEC, 1956–61

    • John B. O’Brien
    Pages 39-52

  6. The Commonwealth in British European Policy: Politics and Sentiment, 1956–63

    • George Wilkes
    Pages 53-81

  7. ‘Commonwealth or Europe?’: Macmillan’s Dilemma, 1961–63

    • Alex May
    Pages 82-110

  8. Commonwealth International Financial Arrangements and Britain’s First Application to Join the EEC

    • Michael David Kandiah, Gillian Staerck
    Pages 111-131

  9. The Labour Government, Commonwealth Policy, and the Second Application to Join the EEC, 1964–67

    • Philip R. Alexander
    Pages 132-155

  10. A Matter of Preference: the EEC and the Erosion of the Old Commonwealth Relationship

    • Stuart Ward
    Pages 156-180

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 181-188
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Britain's loss of its empire and its 'turn' to Europe are the two most striking features of its foreign policy in the thirty years after 1945. The contributors to this book examine the connection between the two processes. Utilizing a range of sources, the authors challenge conventional interpretations of the connection, and in doing so raise important questions about the nature, motivation, and effects of British policy.

Editors and Affiliations

  • New Dictionary of National Biography, University of Oxford, UK

    Alex May

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PHILIP ALEXANDER Graduate Student, St Catherine's College, Cambridge MICHAEL DAVID KANDIAH Director, Witness Seminar Programme, Institute of Historical Research, University of London SIR DONALD MAITLAND President of the Federal Trust and Pro-Chancellor, University of Bath SIR WILLIAM NICHOLL Editor, The European Business Journal DAVID RUSSELL Senior Lecturer in History, Bolton Institute GILLIAN STAERCK Research Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, University of London STUART WARD Lecturer in History, University of Southern Denmark GEORGE R. WILKES Doctoral Candidate, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

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