Rulers, Guns, and Money : The Global Arms Trade in the Age of Imperialism / Jonathan A. Grant.
2007
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Title
Rulers, Guns, and Money : The Global Arms Trade in the Age of Imperialism / Jonathan A. Grant.
Author
Grant, Jonathan A., author.
ISBN
9780674273016
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2007]
Copyright
©2007
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (304 p.)
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10.4159/9780674273016 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
382/.456234
Summary
The explosion of the industrial revolution and the rise of imperialism in the second half of the nineteenth century served to dramatically increase the supply and demand for weapons on a global scale. No longer could arms manufacturers in industrialized nations subsist by supplying their own states' arsenals, causing them to seek markets beyond their own borders. Challenging the traditional view of arms dealers as agents of their own countries, Jonathan Grant asserts that these firms pursued their own economic interests while convincing their homeland governments that weapons sales delivered national prestige and could influence foreign countries. Industrial and banking interests often worked counter to diplomatic interests as arms sales could potentially provide nonindustrial states with the means to resist imperialism or pursue their own imperial ambitions. It was not mere coincidence that the only African country not conquered by Europeans, Ethiopia, purchased weapons from Italy prior to an attempted Italian invasion. From the rise of Remington and Winchester during the American Civil War, to the German firm Krupp's negotiations with the Russian government, to an intense military modernization contest between Chile and Argentina, Grant vividly chronicles how an arms trade led to an all-out arms race, and ultimately to war.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Arsenals of Autocracy
2 Hand-Me-Down Guns: The Balkans and Ethiopia
3 Arms Trade Colonialism: Ethiopia and Djibouti
4 Austro-German Hegemony in Eastern Europe
5 A Tale of Two Arms Races
6 The Dreadnought Races
7 Gunning for Krupp
Conclusion
Notes
Index
Contents
Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Arsenals of Autocracy
2 Hand-Me-Down Guns: The Balkans and Ethiopia
3 Arms Trade Colonialism: Ethiopia and Djibouti
4 Austro-German Hegemony in Eastern Europe
5 A Tale of Two Arms Races
6 The Dreadnought Races
7 Gunning for Krupp
Conclusion
Notes
Index