Rulers, guns, and money [electronic resource] : the global arms trade in the age of imperialism / Jonathan A. Grant.
The explosion of the industrial revolution and the rise of imperialism in the second half of the nineteenth century served to dramatically increase the supply and demand for weapons on a global scale. No longer could arms manufacturers in industrialized nations subsist by supplying their own states&...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Arsenals of autocracy
- Hand-me-down guns: the Balkans and Ethiopia
- Arms trade colonialism: Ethiopia and Djibouti
- Austro-German hegemony in Eastern Europe
- A tale of two arms races
- The dreadnought races
- Gunning for Krupp.