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The New Deal: A Global History provides a radically new interpretation of a pivotal period in US history. The first comprehensive study of the New Deal in a global context, the book compares American responses to the international crisis of capitalism and democracy during the 1930s to responses by other countries around the globe--not just in Europe but also in Latin America, Asia, and other parts of the world. Work creation, agricultural intervention, state planning, immigration policy, the role of mass media, forms of political leadership, and new ways of ruling America's colonies--all had parallels elsewhere and unfolded against a backdrop of intense global debates. By avoiding the distortions of American exceptionalism, Kiran Klaus Patel shows how America's reaction to the Great Depression connected it to the wider world. Among much else, the book explains why the New Deal had enormous repercussions on China; why Franklin D. Roosevelt studied the welfare schemes of Nazi Germany; and why the New Dealers were fascinated by cooperatives in Sweden--but ignored similar schemes in Japan. Ultimately, Patel argues, the New Deal provided the institutional scaffolding for the construction of American global hegemony in the postwar era, making this history essential for understanding both the New Deal and America's rise to global leadership.

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Today it often appears as though the European Union has entered existential crisis after decades of success, condemned by its adversaries as a bureaucratic monster eroding national sovereignty: at best wasteful, at worst dangerous. How did we reach this point and how has European integration impacted on ordinary people's lives - not just in the member states, but also beyond? Did the predecessors of today's EU really create peace after World War II, as is often argued? How about its contribution to creating prosperity? What was the role of citizens in this process, and can the EU justifiably claim to be a 'community of values'? Kiran Klaus Patel's bracing look back at the myths and realities of integration challenges conventional wisdoms of Europhiles and Eurosceptics alike and shows that the future of Project Europe will depend on the lessons that Europeans derive from its past.

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Die Zeit zwischen 1985 und 1992 steht für einen grundlegenden Wandel im europäischen Einigungsprozess. Der Amtsantritt von Jacques Delors als Präsident der Europäischen Kommission 1985, die Einheitliche Europäische Akte 1987 und der Vertrag von Maastricht 1992 bilden die Wegmarken dieser Entwicklung, die das Beziehungsgeflecht zwischen der Europäischen Union und ihren Mitgliedstaaten nachhaltig veränderte. Die transformative Wirkung dieser Phase wurde bisher kaum als solche gesehen. Sie wird in diesem Band im Gespräch zwischen Rechtswissenschaft und Zeitgeschichte erstmals genauer vermessen. Dazu versichern sich die Autoren der jeweiligen disziplinären Perspektive auf den Gegenstand und ordnen ihn in einen allgemeinen zeitgeschichtlichen Kontext ein. Sie fragen, auf welche Weise und in welcher Form das Recht zum Instrument des Wandels werden konnte. Weiterhin untersucht der Band die Dynamiken dieser Veränderungen auf Ebene der Mitgliedstaaten am Beispiel Deutschlands und zeigt auf, welche Konsequenzen dieser Wandel für das Verhältnis des neuen Europas zu anderen Weltteilen haben kann.

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