Overseas Economic Relations and Statehood in Europe 1860s–1970s

<p>Drawing on official archival and published sources this book explores how the formative history of the European nation-state was embedded within economic globalization and associated with conceptions of the world overseas.</p><p>With a particular focus on France Germany Italy and Britain this research investigates how overseas relationships shaped state governance. The argument departs from conventional histories by linking together the analysis of economic relationships and political cultures examining the ways in which state agency formed in different areas such as national economy building the organization of overseas raw material and food supplies labour migration and national identity. Spanning over a century the book discusses the changing role of overseas colonies in European national development. Once a means to complete economic liberalization colonies were then envisaged as tools of crisis management before in the mid-twentieth century complementarities in imperial-colonial economies shifted away from empire.</p><p>This volume covers neglected aspects of the transnational history of European nation-states and is an ideal resource for students and researchers interested in the ties between Europe Africa and Asia as well as connections between political economic and social relations and their conceptualizations.</p>