Marshall Plan

Michael Holm is Lecturer in History at Boston University.

• ContentsSeries IntroductionAcknowledgementsTime Line1. A New Deal for the World: American Plans for the Post-World War II Order2. The World America Made: Towards the Marshall Plan, 1945–19473. Creating the European Recovery Program, 1947–1948 4. The Marshall Plan in Action and the Emergence of European Unity, 1948–19515. Epilogue: The Marshall Plan and MemoryDocumentsBibliography

Pulling it away from the realm of myth, Holm returns the Marshall Plan to its vital and complicated place in history. He traces its roots in US hopes for a stable globe during the Great Depression and World War II, its emergence as part of the rush of the early Cold War, and its lasting impact on Europe, the US, and the world. With lucid prose and pointed analysis he explains the scope of this critical enterprise while advancing some fresh interpretations. - David Ekbladh, author of The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order, 1914 to the Present (2010)