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Author:

Edgerton, David.

Title:

Warfare state : Britain, 1920-1970 / by David Edgerton.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xv, 364 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Historiography--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Defense industries--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Militarism--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Great Britain--Politics and government--20th century.
Great Britain--Military policy.
Great Britain--Economic conditions--20th century

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The military-industrial complex in the interwar years -- The warfare state and the nationalisation of Britain, 1939-55 -- The expert state: the military-scientific complex in the interwar years -- The new men and the new state, 1939-70 -- Anti-historians and technocrats: revisiting the post-war technocratic moment, 1959-64 -- The warfare state and the white heat, 1955-70 -- The disappearance of the British warfare state -- Rethinking the relations of science, technology, industry and war.

ISBN:

9780521672313
9780521672313 (pbk.)
0521672317 (pbk.)
9780521856362
0521856361

OCLC:

(OCoLC)62795653

LCCN:

2006296114

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)