Rulers, guns, and money : the global arms trade in the age of imperialism /
"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. From...
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Arsenals of autocracy
- Hand-me-down guns: the Balkans and Ethiopia
- Arms trade colonialism: Ethiopia and Djibouti
- Austro-German hegemony in Eastern Europe
- A tale of two arms races
- The dreadnought races
- Gunning for Krupp.