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Girding for Battle The Arms Trade in a Global Perspective, 1815-1940

Edited by Donald J. Stoker Jr. and Jonathan A. Grant

ISBN: 0-275-97339-5

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97339-1

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256 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 8/30/2003

List Price: $79.95 (UK Sterling Price: £55.95)

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[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: Stoker and Grant have assembled a collection that explores myriad aspects of the world trade in arms. Rare among volumes of collected essays, it has a coherent focus and reliance on solid current research. It provides a valuable tool for students of military, diplomatic, business, and social history.

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
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