
Warfare state : Britain, 1920 - 1970 / David Edgerton
'Warfare State' challenges the central theme of the existing histories of 20th century Britain, that the British state was a welfare state. It argues that it was also a warfare state, which supported a powerful armaments industry. The book is a substantial reinterpretation of the British s...
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Główni autorzy: | Edgerton, David |
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Format: | Książka |
Język: | English |
Wydane: | Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006 |
Wydanie: | 1. publ |
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Dostęp online: | Inhaltsverzeichnis Klappentext |
Streszczenie: | 'Warfare State' challenges the central theme of the existing histories of 20th century Britain, that the British state was a welfare state. It argues that it was also a warfare state, which supported a powerful armaments industry. The book is a substantial reinterpretation of the British state in the 20th century. |
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Opis fizyczny: | XV, 364 S. graph. Darst |
ISBN: | 0521672317 0521856361 9780521856362 |