03853nam 2200697 a 450 991077884870332120230801223403.0979-88-908700-6-30-8078-6680-6(CKB)111004368568020(OCoLC)47011339(CaPaEBR)ebrary2001282(SSID)ssj0000157908(PQKBManifestationID)11166103(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000157908(PQKBWorkID)10139578(PQKB)10651321(Au-PeEL)EBL3039428(CaPaEBR)ebr2001282(CaONFJC)MIL930265(OCoLC)923704200(MiAaPQ)EBC3039428(EXLCZ)9911100436856802019971205h19981998 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFrance restored Cold War diplomacy and the quest for leadership in Europe, 1944-1954 /William I. Hitchcock, foreword by John Lewis GaddisChapel Hill :University of North Carolina Press,1998.©19981 online resource (xii, 291 pages)The new Cold War historyBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8078-4747-X 0-8078-2428-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-279) and index.Contents tables & map foreword acknowledgments abbreviations Introduction The Founding of the Fourth Republic and the Conditions for French Recovery The Limits of Independence, 1944-1947 No Longer a Great Power The Hard Road to Franco-German Rapprochement, 1948-1950 Sound and Fury: The Debate over German Rearmament The European Defense Community and French National Strategy Conclusion notes bibliographyPublisher's description: Historians of the Cold War, argues William Hitchcock, have too often overlooked the part that European nations played in shaping the post-World War II international system. In particular, France, a country beset by economic difficulties and political instability in the aftermath of the war, has been given short shrift. With this book, Hitchcock restores France to the narrative of Cold War history and illuminates its central role in the reconstruction of Europe. Drawing on a wide array of evidence from French, American, and British archives, he shows that France constructed a coherent national strategy for domestic and international recovery and pursued that strategy with tenacity and effectiveness in the first postwar decade. This once-occupied nation played a vital part in the occupation and administration of Germany, framed the key institutions of the "new" Europe, helped forge the NATO alliance, and engineered an astonishing economic recovery. In the process, France successfully contested American leadership in Europe and used its position as a key Cold War ally to extract concessions from Washington on a wide range of economic and security issues.New Cold War history.Reconstruction (1939-1951)FrancePolitical leadershipFranceWorld politics1945-1955Peaceful change (International relations)FranceForeign relations1945-FranceForeign relationsGermanyGermanyForeign relationsFranceReconstruction (1939-1951)Political leadershipWorld politicsPeaceful change (International relations)327.44Hitchcock William I516570MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778848703321France restored3735466UNINA