Arms, Economics and British Strategy - From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs

Informationen zum Autor G. C. Peden is Professor of History at the University of Stirling. His recent publications include Keynes, the Treasury and British Economic Policy (1988), and The Treasury and British Public Policy, 1906–1959 (2000). Klappentext This book integrates strategy! technology and economics and presents a new way of looking at twentieth-century military history and Britain’s decline as a great power. G. C. Peden explores how from the Edwardian era to the 1960s warfare was transformed by a series of innovations! including dreadnoughts! submarines! aircraft! tanks! radar! nuclear weapons and guided missiles. He shows that the cost of these new weapons tended to rise more quickly than national income and argues that strategy had to be adapted to take account of both the increased potency of new weapons and the economy’s diminishing ability to sustain armed forces of a given size. Prior to the development of nuclear weapons! British strategy was based on an ability to wear down an enemy through blockade! attrition (in the First World War) and strategic bombing (in the Second)! and therefore power rested as much on economic strength as on armaments. Zusammenfassung This book presents a new way of looking at twentieth-century military history and Britain's decline as a great power. G. C. Peden explores how from the Edwardian era to the 1960s warfare was transformed by a series of innovations! including dreadnoughts! submarines! aircraft! tanks! radar! nuclear weapons and guided missiles. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The Dreadnought era, 1904-14; 2. The First World War; 3. Retrenchment and rearmament, 1919-39; 4. The Second World War; 5. The impacts of the atomic bomb and the Cold War, 1945-54; 6. The hydrogen bomb, the economy and decolonisation, 1954-69; Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: G. C. Peden, G. C. (University of Stirling) Peden, George C. Peden, Peden G. C.
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 08.02.2007
• EAN: 9780521867481
• ISBN: 978-0-521-86748-1
• Seiten: 400
• Serien: Cambridge Military Histories; Cambridge Military Histories
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Staatslehre und politische Verwaltung; European History, HISTORY / Military / General, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, British Isles, Modern warfare