Beschreibung:
The book assesses the role of three pro-European pressure groups (the European Union of Federalists, the Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe and the European League for Economic Cooperation) and their impact in fostering new relations between Europe and the colonies between 1947 and 1957. It argues that the association of the overseas territories into the European Economic Community in 1957, the founding stone of today's European policy for aid and development, was to a large extent the result of the intense intellectual activity that took place in these transnational groups upstream of the signature of the Treaty of Rome.
European integration - European empires - European colonisation and decolonisation - Comparative history France, Belgium, the United Kingdom - Pro-European groups - Transnational history - Eurafrica - European Movement - 1940s-1950s - The external relations of the EU.