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Girding for Battle - The Arms Trade in a Global Perspective, 1815-1940 (Hardcover, New)
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Girding for Battle - The Arms Trade in a Global Perspective, 1815-1940 (Hardcover, New)
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The literature on the post-1950 arms trade is exhaustive. In
contrast, there is almost nothing that examines the pre-1950 trade
in arms in a solid, empirical manner. This volume fills that void.
It is a broad collection of articles that examines aspects of the
global trade in armaments from 1815 to 1940. Its collective thrust
analyzes the connections between diplomacy, the domestic politics
of procurement, private business, and military technology transfers
in Asia, Europe, and Africa and the Americas. The Stoker-Grant
collection disentangles the threads of diplomatic, domestic,
political, and economic factors in explaining specific outcomes for
each country. The research and conclusions are empirically and
uniquely grounded in the archival evidence from the state and
company records of the participants. Moreover, it advances academic
and popular understanding of the arms trade in a number of
significant ways. First, it elucidates the existing discussions of
the arms race leading up to World War I by providing a longer-term
context. In considering nearly a century and a half of case studies
rather than a single decade, this work allows for a more accurate
and non-polemical appraisal of the linkages between armaments and
the outbreak of wars. An important collection for scholars,
students, and other researchers involved with military history and
business and political linkages in the global arms trade.
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