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Warfare state : Britain, 1920-1970 /
This groundbreaking book challenges the central theme of the existing histories of twentieth-century Britain, that the British state was a welfare state. It argues that it was also a warfare state, which supported a powerful armaments industry, and analyses the relations of science, technology, indu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The military-industrial complex in the interwar years; 2 The warfare state and the nationalisation of Britain, 1939-55; 3 The expert state: the military-scientific complex in the interwar years; 4 The new men and the new state, 1939-70; 5 Anti-historians and technocrats: revisiting the technocratic moment, 1959-64; 6 The warfare state and the 'white heat', 1955-70; 7 The disappearance of the British warfare state.
- 8 Rethinking the relations of science, technology, industry and warAppendices; Index.