Arms Limitation and Disarmament

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Arms Limitation and Disarmament Restraints on War, 1899-1939

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Edited by B.J.C. McKercher

ISBN: 0-275-94059-4

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-94059-1

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272 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 10/30/1992

List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Description: This collection examines various aspects of the efforts made to limit warfare through arms limitation and disarmament agreements in the period from the first Hague conference to the outbreak of World War II in Europe. The issue for each contributor is not necessarily to show whether individual endeavors, separate conferences, and the rest were successful or unsuccessful--though this is an important consideration. Rather, each chapter tends to offer differing points of view on accomplishments and failures because, as is so often the experience in historical study, the record is mixed; and this situation is certainly no less characteristic of arms limitation and disarmament between 1899 and 1939. Written by experts on disarmament issues, these chapters put into historical perspective how and why the effort, to restrain war were undertaken at the Hague conferences, the Washington conference, and among antiwar groups. Each contributor approaches this task using the method he or she deems most appropriate. Some employ an historiographical approach; others undertake to produce analyses based heavily on archival holdings in order to offer new interpretations of the past or revise existing ones. This book will be of interest to students and teachers alike of modern history and political science.

Table of Contents:

Restraints on War, 1899-1939 by B.J.C. McKercher
The British Government, the Hague Peace Conference of 1907, and the Armaments Question by Andre T. Sidorowicz
"The British Empire Floats on the British Navy": British Naval Policy, Belligerent Rights, and Disarmament, 1902-1909 by Keith Neilson
Abolishing War?: Military Disarmament at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 by Lorna S. Jaffe
A Matter of Controversy: The Peace Movement and British Arms Policy in the Interwar Period by Cecelia Lynch
Look Back in Anger: The Western Powers and the Washington Conference of 1921-1922 by Malcolm H. Murfett
The Coolidge Conference of 1927: Disarmament in Disarray by Richard W. Fanning
The Historians and the Geneva Naval Conference by Marc Epstein
The 1930 London Naval Conference and Anglo-American Maritime Strength, 1927-1930 by Gregory C. Kennedy
Of Horns and Teeth: the Preparatory Commission and the World Disarmament Conference, 1926-1934 by B.J.C. McKercher
Protecting National Interests by Treaty: The Second London Naval Conference, 1934-1935 by Meredith S. Berg
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LC Card Number: 92-1193

LCC Class: JX1974

Dewey Class: 327.1


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