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Economic relations between Britain and Australasia, 1945-1970

Title
Economic relations between Britain and Australasia, 1945-1970 / John Singleton and Paul L. Robertson.
Author
Singleton, John, 1960-
Publication
New York : Palgrave, 2002.

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Robertson, Paul L.
Description
xiv, 289 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
  • "In the early postwar era, Britain enjoyed a very close economic relationship with Australia and New Zealand, through their common membership of the Sterling Area and the Commonwealth Preference Area. This book examines the breakdown of this relationship in the 1950s and 1960s. Australia and New Zealand's determination to protect their manufacturing industries reduced the opportunities for British exporters.
  • At the same time, the slow growth of the British food market, combined with the subsidization of British farmers, reduced the profits of Australian farmers. Australia and New Zealand were drawn towards Japan and the USA for markets and capital supplies. British frustration with Australian economic demands helped to fuel interest in European integration in the mid-1950s.
  • Special emphasis is given to the implications for Australia and New Zealand of Britain's proposal for a European free trade area, and of Harold Macmillan's unsuccessful bid to join the EEC in 1961-3."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
Uniform Title
Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
Subject
  • Great Britain > Foreign economic relations > Australia
  • Australia > Foreign economic relations > Great Britain
  • Great Britain > Foreign economic relations > New Zealand
  • New Zealand > Foreign economic relations > Great Britain
  • Great Britain > Commercial policy
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-280) and index.
Contents
1. Australasia in Context -- 2. Australia, New Zealand, and International Reconstruction -- 3. Development Policy in Australia -- 4. Development Policy in New Zealand -- 5. Stresses in the Ottawa System -- 6. The Search for New Markets -- 7. Britain, the Commonwealth, and Europe, 1945-60 -- 8. Britain's First EEC Application -- 9. After the Veto: Trade Policy in the Mid-1960s -- 10. Conclusion.
ISBN
0333919416
LCCN
2001054891
OCLC
  • ocm48170920
  • SCSB-4252256
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries