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 An innovative study of British defence policy in the period from 1900 to1970. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Peden G. C., G. C. Peden, G. C. (University of Stirling) Peden, George C. Peden, Peden G. C.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.04.2009
• EAN: 9780521108386
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10838-6
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Cambridge Military Histories; Cambridge Military Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, International Relations, Defence strategy, planning & research, Economic history, Warfare & defence, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, British Isles, Military and defence strategy