Jean Monnet and Canada : Early Travels and the Idea of European Unity / Trygve Ugland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ugland, Trygve, author.

Series:

European Union studies.

European Union Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monnet, Jean, 1888-1979.

Monnet, Jean.

Monnet, Jean, 1888-1979--Travel--Canada.

European Union--History.

European Union.

Hudson's Bay Company--Employees--Biography.

Hudson's Bay Company.

Statesmen--Europe--Biography.

Statesmen.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (137 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Jean Monnet (1888-1979) is often viewed as the chief architect of the European Coal and Steel Community, which over time evolved into today's European Union. Monnet spent his early years working as an agent for his father, a cognac producer. It was this experience that took him to Scandinavia, England, the United States, and most importantly Canada, where he was exposed to the country's unique form of federalism. Drawing on a wide variety of empirical sources, including unpublished documents, correspondence, and original historical data extracted from archives both in Canada and Europe, Trygve Ugland's Jean Monnet and Canada argues that the extensive period of time Monnet spent in Canada between 1907 and 1914 had a formative influence on the achievements of his later years, particularly on the institutional 'construction of Europe.'"--Publisher description.

Contents:

Foreword / Roger Morgan

Travelling and political inspiration

A new world in Canada and a new theory for Europe

Monnet and the Hudson's Bay Company

Monnet's Canadian scheme in preparation for the Second World War

Canada as Monnet's early inspiration and lifelong liaison.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Dez 2018)

ISBN:

1-4426-9545-5

1-4426-9544-7

OCLC:

1078911489