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Arms and the State - Sir William Armstrong and the Remaking of British Naval Power, 1854-1914 (Paperback)
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Arms and the State - Sir William Armstrong and the Remaking of British Naval Power, 1854-1914 (Paperback)
Series: Modern Economic and Social History
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Arms and the State is a history of Britain's first and foremost
modern armaments company, the Armstrong Whitworth Company, from its
origins in 1854 to 1914. It focuses on the role of Sir William G.
Armstrong, an engineer and entrepreneur who transformed his modest
mechanical engineering business into a vast industrial enterprise
which invented, developed, manufactured and sold heavy guns and
warships throughout the world. Arms and the State reconstructs the
global arms trade as it follows Armstrong's companies selling the
latest weapons to both sides in the American Civil War, Egypt,
Turkey and Italy in the 1860s, to China, Chile and Japan in the
1870s and 1880s, and became Britain's leading armaments company in
the age of the naval arms races that preceded the First World War.
In so doing, it discusses varied topics such as the social and
political nature of technological innovation, the quality of
Britain's late-Victorian entrepreneurs, and the impact of armaments
on British politics, defence policies, the international arms trade
and imperialism. Arms and the State situates the history of the
company in its technological, political and international contexts,
with particular attention given to the role of British
Parliamentary politics and the inner workings of the War Office and
Admiralty bureaucracies. The central narrative is Armstrong's role
in the militarization of technology in the 1850s, the
commercialization of the armaments trade on a global scale in the
1860s and 1870s, and the emergence of the British
military-industrial state in the 1880s and 1890s. Arms and the
State provides a history of the people, the technology and the
business of the Arms trade. It is a fascinating story of the
domestic politics, the foreign policy and strategic calculations,
the manipulation of the press and the bureaucratic intrigues that
lay behind the invention, production and proliferation of the first
weapons of mass destruction.
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