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Presented by Patel (history, European Union Institute, Italy), 14 papers use the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy as an empirical window for exploring different approaches to the history of European integration. Topics discussed include global attempts to deal with international surpluses of wheat in the 1920s-50s and their impact on later forms of agricultural internationalism, links between the Common Agricultural Policy and the integration project as a whole, the contribution of the Common Agricultural Policy to the rise of the European welfare state, the impact of the Common Agricultural Policy on the ways in which the French landscape was constructed and imagined, the role of Dutch politician Sicco Mansholt (the first European Agricultural Commissioner) in the design and creation of the Common Agricultural Policy, the relationship between the Common Agricultural Policy and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and the impact of the Common Agricultural Policy on global experiences of the world food crises of the early 1970s. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
