The Business of Armaments: Armstrongs, Vickers and the International Arms Trade, 1855-1955

ISBN-13: 9781009297523 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 314 str.

Washington DC) Spear Joanna (George Washington University

Opis

Explores Britain's most prominent armaments firms and their relationships with the British Government and foreign states from 1855 to 1955.

Spis treści

List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms; Introduction: British armament firms' independence and power; Part I: Selling at Home: 1. Armstrongs and Vickers become armaments firms: the challenges they faced and the strategies they developed; 2. Selling armaments in Britain 1860–1900: Armstrongs rises and Vickers evolves; 3. Selling Armaments in Britain 1901–1918: Vickers rises and Armstrongs responds; 4. Selling armaments in Britain 1919–1935: Inter-war struggles and Vickers-Armstrongs is born; 5. Selling armaments in Britain 1936–1955: Vickers-Armstrongs and the challenges of wartime and peacetime; Part II: Selling Abroad: 6. Foreign policies for selling armaments to South America; 7. Foreign policies for selling armaments to Asia; 8. Foreign policies for selling arms to the Ottoman Empire/Turkey; 9. Conclusions: assessing Armstrongs and Vickers' independence and power vis. the British state – a military industrial complex?; Bibliography; Index.