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Warfare State - Britain, 1920-1970 (Hardcover)
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Warfare State - Britain, 1920-1970 (Hardcover)
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A challenge to the central theme of the existing histories of
twentieth-century Britain, that the British state was a welfare
state, this book argues that it was also a warfare state, which
supported a powerful armaments industry. This insight implies major
revisions to our understanding of twentieth-century British
history, from appeasement, to wartime industrial and economic
policy, and the place of science and technology in government.
David Edgerton also shows how British intellectuals came to think
of the state in terms of welfare and decline, and includes a
devastating analysis of C. P. Snow's two cultures. This
groundbreaking book offers a new, post-welfarist and
post-declinist, account of Britain, and an original analysis of the
relations of science, technology, industry and the military. It
will be essential reading for those working on the history and
historiography of twentieth-century Britain, the historical
sociology of war and the history of science and technology.
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