Warfare State: Britain, 1920-1970

by David Edgerton

Book Overview

A challenge to the central theme of the existing histories of twentieth-century Britain, that the British state was a welfare state, this book argues that it was also a warfare state, which supported a powerful armaments industry. This insight implies major revisions to our understanding of twentieth-century British history, from appeasement, to wartime industrial and economic policy, and the place of science and technology in government. David Edgerton...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521672317
• ISBN13: 9780521672313
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"