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America's Feeble Weapon: Funding the Marshall Plan in France and Italy, 1948-1950 (Contributions to the Study of World...
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by Chiarella Esposito
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 264 pages
Published by: Greenwood Press September 30, 1994
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0313293406
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0313293405
Book Dimensions:
9.4 x 6.1 x 1 inches
Weighs: 1.3 pounds
Product Description
Unlike earlier studies of the Marshall Plan, this volume concentrates not on events in Washington, but on those in France and Italy--the second and third largest beneficiaries of the Plan. Using U.S., French, and Italian sources, the author analyzes the impact of the Plan on French and Italian economic policy between 1948 and 1950. Taking neither a "realist" nor "revisionist" stance, the author argues that massive American aid to Western Europe was a perceived political necessity--that American, French, and Italian governments shared with Truman the strategic-ideological goal of Communist containment. Yet, not all of the philosophy embedded in the Plan could be implemented, and American ideology did not, therefore, have a decisive influence in reshaping postwar French or Italian economic policies. The book's introduction discusses the goals of the Marshall Plan and how postwar political circumstances led France and Italy to dissimilar economic recovery paths that would often clash with American goals. The following seven chapters analyze how American officials sought to influence French and Italian economic policies. Chapters 2, 3, and 4 cover the French case; chapters 5, 6, and 7, the Italian. The concluding chapter provides a direct comparison of the French and Italian experiences and suggests implications for current historiographical debates.
About The Author
CHIARELLA ESPOSITO is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi and the author of several papers and articles.
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