Based on a Welsh legend about Prince Llywelyn and his loyal dog Gelert, who is wrongly banished when the prince believes that the dog has attacked his son.
Ccombines historical information with biographical sketches,illustrations, photographs, primary source excerpts, and first-person narratives to examine the Marshall plan and its implications.
In June 1947, Secretary of State George C. Marshall proposed that the United States provide funds to help Europe recover from the destruction caused by World War II. To receive the aid, European nations had to agree on a cooperative plan to solve their common economic and infras…
This volume describes how the Marshall Plan was developed, its effects on aiding Europe in the aftermath of World War II, and how it shaped the course of European development.
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Health care, welfare, Social Security, employment programs--all are part of ongoing national debates about the future of social policy in the United States. In this wide-ranging collection of essays, Theda Skocpol shows how historical understanding, centered on governmental inst…
Readers will be surprised at many of the findings and arguments of this volume. Skocpol dispels the myth that Americans are inherently hostile to governmental social spending. When universal social programs jointly benefit the middle class and the poor, she shows, Americans sinc…
This study examines how a firm belief in the economic doctrine of multilateralism triggered a powerful policy-determining crusade within the U.S. State Department. This doctrine was fundamental to the establishment of postwar foreign policy toward Germany. It was present in 1939…
The Marshall Plan and post-2003 Iraq represent the two largest US-led, post-war reconstruction projects in history, yet the two cases embody the implementation of two nearly opposite political ideologies. Whereas proponents of the Marshall Plan emphasized the supremacy of the st…
From the beginning of the republic's founding, Turkey displayed impressive diplomatic prudence in maintaining strong relations with Europe's major powers. However, the end of the Second World War marked the beginning of a new chapter in Turkish foreign policy. In response to the…