G. C. Peden, Peden G. C.

Arms, Economics and British Strategy

From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 647g
• ISBN-13: 9780521108386
• ISBN-10: 0521108381
• Artikelnr.: 26105348

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.