Vision of Europe
Subtitle: Franco-German Relations During the Great Depression, 1929-1932
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780199676293
Subjects: Depressions, 1929; France, foreign relations, germany; Germany, foreign relations, france
Description: It is commonly held that the inter-war era marked little more than a ceasefire between two world wars, with the improvement in German-Allied relations forged at Locarno in 1925 cut short by the global economic turmoil that followed the 1929 Wall Street Crash. 'A Vision of Europe' challenges this received wisdom, offering a fundamental re-evaluation of inter-war Franco-German relations during the Great Depression and providing a fuller understanding of the historical origins of today's European Union. It demonstrates that rather than lapsing into mutual recrimination and national egotism, France and Germany engaged with the challenges of the post-1929 slump by way of plans for a Franco-German customs union and wider bilateral economic collaboration, whether across the Rhine, in the French Empire, or elsewhere in Europe. 0.