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040 _aStDuBDS
_beng
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_erda
050 0 _aDD260.85
_b.H34 2020
082 0 4 _a327.4104309045
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100 1 _aHaeussler, Mathias,
_d1988-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aHelmut Schmidt and British-German relations :
_ba European misunderstanding /
_cMathias Haeussler.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2020.
300 _axiv, 251 pages :
_billustrations (black and white) ;
_c23 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
336 _astill image
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
500 _aOriginally published: 2019.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 8 _aThe former West German chancellor Helmut Schmidt grew up as a devout Anglophile, yet he clashed heavily and repeatedly with his British counterparts Wilson, Callaghan, and Thatcher during his time in office. This title looks at Schmidt's personal experience to explore how and why Britain and Germany rarely saw eye to eye over European integration, uncovering the two countries' deeply competing visions and incompatible strategies for post-war Europe. But it also zooms out to reveal the remarkable extent of simultaneous British-German cooperation in fostering joint European interests on the wider international stage, not least within the transatlantic alliance against the background of a worsening superpower relationship.
520 8 _aThis major reinterpretation of British-German relations in the 1970s explores why the two countries rarely saw eye to eye over European integration. It shows how at the heart of bilateral tensions lay profoundly competing visions for post-war Europe, and reveals their surprisingly close cooperation in pursuing joint interests on the global stage.
521 _aSpecialized.
600 1 0 _aSchmidt, Helmut,
_d1918-2015.
_9113944
650 0 _aPrime ministers
_zGermany (West)
_xHistory.
651 0 _aGreat Britain
_xRelations
_zGermany (West)
651 0 _aGermany (West)
_xRelations
_zGreat Britain.
651 0 _aEurope
_xEconomic integration.
_914769
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_d81041