A history of America’s Stand Your Ground gun laws, from Reconstruction to Trayvon MartinAfter a young, white gunman killed twenty-six people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012, conservative legisl...Loe edasi...
From the establishment of NATO in 1949, Western Europe has been under Anglo-American tutelage in military and security matters. Several countries, most notably France and (since reunification) Germany, have experienced this as a hindrance to the pur...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on the lives, struggles, and contrasting perspectives of the 60,000 workers, military administrators, and technical staff employed in the largest, most strategic industry of the Nationalist government, the armaments industry base...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Aug-2021, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781800857148)
This book examines the relationship between the private naval armaments industry, businessmen and the British government defence planners between the wars. It reassesses the concept of the Military-Industrial Complex through the impact of disarmament...Loe edasi...
Innovation is the lifeline of national development. This handbook is a collection of chapters that provide techniques and methodologies for achieving the transfer of defense-targeted science and technology development for general industrial applic...Loe edasi...
The de-tooling and conversion of the vast Soviet defence industry, following the end of the Cold War and collapse of the Soviet Union, is vital for Russian political, economic and social regeneration and stability, and has huge implications for inter...Loe edasi...
From the establishment of NATO in 1949, Western Europe has been under Anglo-American tutelage in military and security matters. Several countries, most notably France and (since reunification) Germany, have experienced this as a hindrance to the pur...Loe edasi...
As cultural, social, political, and historical objects, guns are rich with complex and contested significance. What guns mean, why they matter, and what policies should be undertaken to regulate guns remain issues of vigorous scholarly and public...Loe edasi...
This study investigates a less-than-wholesome chapter in capitalisms early manifestation in the Dutch Republic and its seventeenth-century global economic entanglements in the arms trade and mercenary warfare, showing how the Dutch accumulat...Loe edasi...
This ambitious book reframes the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of British empire, and emergence of industrial capitalism by presenting them as inextricable from the gun trade-- This ambitious book reframes the Industrial Revolution,...Loe edasi...
Prior to 1914, wars had been comparatively small affairs using relatively small amounts of military supplies and, despite warnings, British industry and government initially failed to grasp the scale of the war with demand for munitions soon outst...Loe edasi...
Innovation is the lifeline of national development. This handbook is a collection of chapters that will provide techniques and methodologies for achieving the transfer of defense-targeted science and technology development for general industrial a...Loe edasi...
For most of the twentieth century tin was fundamental for both warfare and welfare. The importance of tin is most powerfully represented by the tin can - an invention which created a revolution in food preservation and helped feed both the armies...Loe edasi...
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Empire of Guns expertly brings to life a bustling industrial society with a human story at its heart to offer a radically new understanding of a critical historical moment and all that followed from it....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Apr-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781786940667)
This book examines the relationship between the private naval armaments industry, businessmen and the British government defence planners between the wars. It reassesses the concept of the Military-Industrial Complex through the impact of disarmament...Loe edasi...
It is estimated that today some 2.7 of world GDP (1.5 trillion) is spent on arms. In 2014 Lockheed Martin, the US defense contractor, had revenues of 45 billion – the equivalent of the GDP of Tunisia. This book explores the business behind these b...Loe edasi...
saadame teile pakkumise kasutatud raamatule, mille hind võib erineda kodulehel olevast hinnast
It is estimated that today some 2.7 of world GDP (1.5 trillion) is spent on arms. In 2014 Lockheed Martin, the US defense contractor, had revenues of 45 billion – the equivalent of the GDP of Tunisia. This book explores the business behind thes...Loe edasi...
