| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.4

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Ian Jackson. The Economic Cold War: America, Britain and East-West Trade, 1948–63. (Cold War History Series.) New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. ix, 239.

A reader might be forgiven for presuming that somehow the description of this book on the inside dust jacket has been transposed with that of a different book on the economic Cold War. The blurb tells us firmly that "few studies of the Cold War have considered the economic dimension" and that this volume, a detailed study of the subject, therefore "fills an important gap in the historiography of the Cold War." One therefore settles back and prepares to read a well-researched book of the gap-filling variety. 1

Happily, these assertions are wide of the mark. First, a considerable amount has been written about the economic Cold War. Some of the earlier writing was submerged within volumes on the Marshall Plan, but even if we focus on trade and technology transfer, much research has been published, beginning with Robert A. Pollard's Economic Security and the Origins of the Cold War, 1945–1950 (1985). Second, while Ian Jackson's study is indeed scholarly and detailed, its main virtue is not gap-filling but instead the skillful way in which material is deployed in order to situate the study within distinct schools of interpretation—indeed an ongoing debate—regarding the economic Cold War in Europe. Jackson surveys a fairly dense area with model clarity, and for this reason, as well as the exemplary research in both British and American archives over an extended period, this book will be required reading. . . .

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