Book ID: CBB318135432

Between Depression and Disarmament: The International Armaments Business, 1919–1939 (2018)

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Grant, Jonathan (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: x + 228
Language: English

This business history analyzes the connections between private business, disarmament, and re-armament as they affected arms procurement and military technology transfers in Eastern Europe from 1919 to 1939. Rather than focusing on the negotiations or the political problems involved with the Disarmament Conferences, this study concerns itself with the business effects of the disarmament discussions. Accordingly, Schneider-Creusot, Koda, Vickers, and their respective business activities in Eastern European markets serve as the chief subjects for this book, and the core primary sources relied upon include their unpublished corporate archival documents. Shifting the scope of analysis to consider the business dimension allows for a fresh appraisal of the linkages between the arms trade, disarmament, and re-armament. The business approach also explodes the myth of the 'merchants of death' from the inside. It concludes by tracing the armaments business between 1939 and 1941 as it transitioned from peacetime to war. (Publisher)

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Authors & Contributors
Zofka, Jan
Beemen, Olivier van
Rubio-Varas, Maria del Mar
Torre, Joseba De la
Donzé, Pierre-Yves
Ghassan Moazzin
Concepts
Business history
International relations
International Business corporations
Cold War
Technology transfer
Business and Politics
Time Periods
20th century
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
19th century
18th century
Places
Eastern Europe
China
United States
Latin America
Spain
Germany
Institutions
General Electric Company
W.H. Smith and Son
Marconi Española
Heineken’s Bierbrouwerij Maatschappij
Nestlé (Firm)
Iberia, Líneas Aéreas de España
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