Hugh Rockoff

America's Economic Way of War

War and the Us Economy from the Spanish-American War to the Persian Gulf War

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Produktbeschreibung

This revealing book exposes the influence of economics and finance on how America waged war in the twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 686g
• ISBN-13: 9780521859400
• ISBN-10: 0521859409
• Artikelnr.: 35055203

Autorenporträt

Hugh Rockoff is a Professor of Economics at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. His publications include numerous papers in professional journals, The Free Banking Era: A Re-examination (1975), Drastic Measures: A History of Wage and Price Controls in the United States (1984) and a textbook History of the American Economy (with Gary Walton).

Inhaltsangabe

1. A century of war
2. The economics of war
3. The Spanish-American War
4. The Philippine-American War
5. World War I
6. World War II
7. The Korean War
8. The Cold War
9. The Vietnam War
10. The Persian Gulf War
11. The American way of war.