Description
Neil Rollings offers a new account of European integration and British business.
About the Author
Neil Rollings (b. 1961) is currently Head of Department and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow. Rollings previously held posts at the University of Leeds and the University of Bristol. In 2000-2001 he was Associate Professor in the Institute of Economic Research at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. Rollings is currently joint chair of the University of Glasgow Business School Strategic Advisory Board, Treasurer (until June 2007) of the Association of Business Historians, and on the Council of the Economic History Society. Rollings is the joint author of Economic Planning 1943-51 (1992), Economic Policy under the Conservatives 1951-64 (2004), and joint editor of Labour Governments and Private Industry (1992).
Reviews
'British Business in the Formative Years of European Integration, 1945-1972 is an extremely useful book. It starts from the point of view of enterprise, not only of business organisations, such as chambers of commerce; it fulfils its promise to provide 'a key link between economic integration, political integration and the process of Europeanisation'; and not least it argues that we must understand business and its actors in relation to their whole environment.' Business History Review
'This is a tightly argued book, rich in evidence both quantitative and qualitative, drawn from previously unexplored archival material. Rollings demonstrates that business history has much to offer to historians and social scientists interested in the history of European integration; they will find here much that is new both in terms of evidence and in the author's approach.' The American Historical Review
Book Information
ISBN 9780521888110
Author Neil Rollings
Format Hardback
Page Count 294
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 540g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 160mm * 19mm