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Girding for Battle The Arms Trade in a Global Perspective, 1815-1940
Donald J. Stoker, Jonathan A. Grant
Book Code: C7339
ISBN: 0-275-97339-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97339-1
256 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 8/30/2003
List Price: $79.95 (UK Sterling Price: £44.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • [w]ill be of considerable value both to military and to diplomatic historians for its pioneering contribution to an unjustly neglected field.
    —Military History     .
Description: 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.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: The Arms Trade in a Global Perspective by Jonathan A. Grant
  • Egypt's Nineteenth-Century Armaments Industry by John Dunn
  • The Arms Trade in Eastern Europe, 1870-1914 by Jonathan A. Grant
  • The New Navy and the Old World: The United States Navy's Foreign Arms Purchasing in the Late Nineteenth Century by Stephen K. Stein
  • The Art of the Deal by William F. Sater and Holger H. Herwig
  • Undermining the Cordon Sanitaire: Naval Arms Sales and Anglo-French Competition in Latvia, 1924-25 by Donald J. Stoker Jr.
  • German Secret Submarine Exports, 1919-35 by Björn Forsén
  • The Politics of Arms Not Given: Japan, Ethiopia, and Italy in the 1930's by J. Calvitt Clarke III
  • The Most Unlikely of Allies: Hitler and Haile Selassie and the Defense of Ethiopia, 1935-36 by Ed Westermann
  • Italo-Soviet Military Cooperation in the 1930s by J. Calvitt Clarke III
  • United States-Soviet Naval Relations in the 1930s: The Soviet Union's Efforts to Purchase Naval Vessels by Thomas R. Maddux
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • About the Contributors
LC Card Number: 2002029899
LCC Class: HD9743
Dewey Class: 382
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