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Book SynopsisThis is a study of Britain's most prominent armaments firms and of their relationships with the British Government and foreign states from 1855 to 1955. It reveals how the firms developed and utilized independent domestic strategies and foreign policies against the backdrop of imperial expansion and the two world wars.
Table of ContentsList of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms; Introduction: British armament firms' independence and power; Part I: Selling at Home: 1. Armstrongs and Vickers become armaments firms: the challenges they faced and the strategies they developed; 2. Selling armaments in Britain 1860–1900: Armstrongs rises and Vickers evolves; 3. Selling Armaments in Britain 1901–1918: Vickers rises and Armstrongs responds; 4. Selling armaments in Britain 1919–1935: Inter-war struggles and Vickers-Armstrongs is born; 5. Selling armaments in Britain 1936–1955: Vickers-Armstrongs and the challenges of wartime and peacetime; Part II: Selling Abroad: 6. Foreign policies for selling armaments to South America; 7. Foreign policies for selling armaments to Asia; 8. Foreign policies for selling arms to the Ottoman Empire/Turkey; 9. Conclusions: assessing Armstrongs and Vickers' independence and power vis. the British state – a military industrial complex?; Bibliography; Index.
